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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STE DMA sound (documentation posted)
Message-ID: <4588@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 90 08:57:51 GMT
References: <37193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Feb27.230234.8875@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <48ef7e01.14a1f@force.UUCP> <1990Mar4.191533.329@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <941@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <941@lzaz.ATT.COM> bds@lzaz.UUCP (Bruce Szablak) writes:
>Hmmm, from what I been reading, the main complaint is how Atari is trying
>to restrict technical info on the ST to those who have forked over the
>developers fee. Perhaps this is the REAL reason the publicly available
>docs are "shit!"

Of course the reverse is true in the UK.
Being a registered developer I get to read about the workings of the new STE
in a magazine instead of being told by Atari that there is this new machine
coming out Christmas '89 and would I like some tech details on it.
I spent last December writing, phoning and pestering Atari UK to get 2 year
old developer documentation on the ordinary ST.

I do think that in paying the developers fee you are entitled to information
and support that the ordinary user is denied. What do I mean by that?
Well by information I mean advanced information on unreleased products
such as the TT and special hardware such as Moniterm cards etc.
Support? Phone, newsletters bug fixes, the whole thing.

I have been told, by Atari UK, that the whole developers support is under
a major reorganisation and details will be announced in the near future.

As for posting of development documentation to the net perhaps suffering
typos I quote from Rainbow TOS release notes:-

	"The xxxxxx() call is incorrectly documented"

	"The documentation for the xxxxxx is wrong."

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