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From: qralph@dna.lth.se (Ralph Haglund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE documentation - why it was posted
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.230238.18591@lth.se>
Date: 28 Feb 90 23:02:38 GMT
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Hi,
Those on the net regularly might remember I posted appr. the same thing some
time back, then derived from a German magazine, where all the STE registers
where described. At the time I got, privately and publicly, exactly the same
scolding from Atari USA. I had clearly indicated the source, I am a developer
but still I haven't got this info from Atari Stockholm, and in general I have
GIVEN them info, but never ever got a single sheet except those I got when I
bought the development kit. I have sent mail via snail mail to Atari USA, I
have sent several to all the Atari guys on the net, never ever a single reply.
As a developer I sent in a few pages from the development package that I was
requested, to Atari USA, to get something in return. That is soon one year ago.
Not a single reply.-
I am also trying to sell Ataris here in town. I try to get all kinds of argu-
ments for Atari, with the result I have sold piles of Ataris but just one
Amiga (put a smiley there if you feel for it). I also try to write programs
for Atari. But sometimes I wonder what I am doing. Even a fanatic might start
to wonder at times... 
I put the simple question to Atari USA: in the complaints here on the net
there was mentioned, that this way people might get erroneous info. So my
question is: What about books how to program the Atari? The deevelopers aren't
allowed to tell how to do it, Atari themselves don't publish, except to
people who pay $300. That means all legal books about programming the Atari
are written by hackers who have guessed, experimented about everything, or
possibly stolen from waste paper baskets at Atari USA. Is that the best way
to inform the public about this machine???
I wish I saw some logic in the whole. Why doesn't Atari want to make money?


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