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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Becoming an Official Atari Developer!
Summary: Mag articles
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:15:29 GMT
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In article <9002141920.AA05746@decwrl.dec.com>, peters@rodney.enet.dec.com (Don Peters, CTC2-1, DTN 287-3153) writes:
> Subject: Becoming an Official Atari Developer!
>  
> fresh, following these guidelines:
> 
>     1) You must have a commercial product
> 
>     2) Shareware definitely qualifies as a commercial product
> 
>     3) Having your program published in some magazine qualifies
> 
>     4) Public domain submissions generally don't qualify
> 
>     5) If you are just starting, you most likely won't have any product
>        yet. In that case, you must submit a business plan, describing the
>        product you are working on and the timeframe for release.
> Finally, while I tried to accurately convey the significant points of our
> conversation, I no doubt omitted an important thing or two. You may want
> to talk to Charles Cherry yourself to clarify some issue. Give him a call
> - he seems friendly enough to talk to.


I agree with Peter, and wish that I could have expressed what I heard from Charles 
Cherry as well as Peter did! :-)

But, for you who want to become a registered developer, you have an excellent
opportunity to get published in a new mag called ST JOURNAL. I called Neocept
to ask about WORD UP 3.0 (which I wanted to upgrade to from WordUp 2.), and
the Technical Support guy at Neocept (sorry I didn't write down his name :-( ),
gave me the phone number to ST JOURNAL. I lef the number at home but will post
it later today.

Anyway, ST JOURNAL will publish its preimer issue in march with a cover date of
April. And the best news is that ST JOURNAL is looking for articles. I suggested
a couple of ideas that I am working on, and so I want to try to get published in
ST JOURNAL myself. So, that would qualify me as a Developer according to Peter's
above comments.

I will post a complete message about ST JOURNAL soon.

P.S. After discussing the situation with others on GEnie, I have come to the
conclusion that the $250.00 price is a fair price for the ST Devloper package.
I have talked to other developers who couldn't say much, but they all did agree
that it was worth the money. So, after I get published, or finish a couple more
ShareWare programs, I am going to submit for a Dev. kit.

P.P.S. Anyone interested in some ShareWare PageStream templates for various
AVERY Laser Printer Labels?? I am developing some PgS templates for the entire
line of AVERY Laser Printer labels, as well as some utilities to gather data to
be imported into the labels. For example, I am writing some code to convert the
various disk cataloging datafiles into ASCII files to be imported into 3.5"
and 5.25" AVERY LASER LABELs. Just a few things that I am working on.


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