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From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: FLAMES and SUPPORT IN THE MINUS REALM
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Date: 17 Dec 89 14:35:20 GMT
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In article <25039@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Greg Lindahl asks:
> 
>>What don't you like about the current 3rd party books about
>>programming the ST?
> 
>Most of the third party books about the ST were "reverse engineered" and
>based on information that was discovered by disassembling code from the
>machine, or by experimentation, or I suspect from "illicit" passing on of
>information from registered developers.

The Abacus GEM book seems to have been done that way. However, the
Sybex GEM programming book is quite good, was written in English and
not translated. I've never seen the other GEM tutorial book recently
mentioned, but I doubt it's just a bad copy of the Atari development
docs.

Which of these 3 have you looked at?

Also, I haven't read the Mark Williams C or Laser C manuals, but the are
reputed to be pretty good.

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Greg Lindahl