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From: exspes@bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.183809.4264@bath.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 90 18:38:09 GMT
References: <22463@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1247@carroll1.cc.edu> <1990Feb27.230234.8875@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990Feb27.230234.8875@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun8.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>
>So what's the complaint? I keep on asking what people don't like about
>current ST books. I haven't seen (yet) a single person who has
>actually read the 3rd edition Abacus GEM book, or one of the other
>good GEM books, and thought that it had lots of errors. Although some

Does this mean they've fixed them, then?  My *own* problem (since I've
moaned a bit about the lack of docs in past as well) is that I bought
about half of the Abacus set when they first came out (first editions)
and at that time they were riddled with errors.  Not the sort of thing
to encourage me to go buy another copy, even if it did say 'new edition'
on it.  On the other hand, if they are *really* better...

My present favorites are the 3-volume Compute! series (one book each on
AES, VDI, and TOS) and Katherine Peel's 'The Concise Atari ST 68000
Programmer's Reference Guide' -- but not the first edition which was
lacking any form of index.

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