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From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: PORTFOLIO Development Kit
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Date: 9 Mar 90 00:30:00 GMT
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Through discussions with Atari Canada, I learned that there is a Portfolio
development kit that consists of an emulation program that lets you program
on a standard PC as if it was a Portfolio. Once the code is tested, it is
then transferred to the Portfolio.

One hitch. You have to be a registered developer to get the product. That's
a shame because the Atari world is famous for its PD and Shareware goodies
that are discouraged by limited availability of a development environment.

While I understand that DIP has the rights to the documentation and such, it
seems to be self-defeating for a manufacturer to limit distribution of info
that will promote the writing of software for its computer!

In addition, why doesn't Atari issue a file transfer code for the ST to allow
ST-Portfolio dialog via the smart parallel interface like it does with the
Atari PCs?