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- From: petsalo@lut.fi (Jyrki Petsalo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Delfina DSP card for Amiga
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 22:38:24 +0200
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: amiga@cse.unsw.edu.au's message of 18 Mar 1996 04:30:03 GMT
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- >>Delfina does not seem to be interested in actually supplying the
- >>programmers with any prototype or development boards.
- >
- >Well, maybe you didn't know that the company is not a multinational
- >billion dollar company able to just give the cards for free
- >to everyone? Maybe there just isn't enough money in Amiga business
- >for company to start throwing away thousands of dollars even
-
- I never said that I want them to donate a card to me for nothing. What
- I have in mind is what C= used to do. As a developer I was able to
- negotiate a reasonable loan on new models of equipment. I would have
- a board on loan for 3-6 months, at the end of this term I either had
- to return the board to C= or they would invoice me for it. I can't
- see why this could not be the case with other companies.
-
- We haven't had any offers or inquiries about this kind of arrangement.
- I think it would not be impossible with a quite limited number of
- developers. However, like Pauli said, we are a small company, and can't
- put very much money on cards on loan. A 3 month loan period would be a
- more feasible option than 6 months.
-
- As for other developer support and incompleted software, Teemu wrote
- a post that should clear it up. Now as we support AHI, the audio
- software made for Delfina should work (upto a point) with other
- audio hardware as well, excluding DSP specific stuff and the
- minimizing of CPU usage.
-
- Developers, please write about your ideas and suggestions. We can't
- afford to make the mistake of the big ones and overlook what people
- have to say.
-
- -JP
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