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From: [e-mail] (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Update to Native Developer Kit 3.1: Request for ideas
Date: 26 Feb 1996 15:36:58 GMT
Organization: Cronus
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References: <4gqkho$[e-mail]>
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In article <4gqkho$[e-mail]>,
IAN J. EINMAN <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I would like to eventually see a programmer's CD-ROM come out.  This would have all the
>NDK stuff, as well as the dev/ directory of Aminet, and perhaps example source, and demos
>of commercial compilers/assemblers etc.  Everything someone could use to get going.  Having
>all the PD/Shareware tools in addition to the NDK stuff would be great.  Perhaps
>also on here could go Fred Fish's ADE project.  As much as could be crammed on a CD.
>Ideally someone who is actually NEW to Amiga programming (yes there are some) and may or may
>not even have net access could buy this CD and a compiler, (or use GNU or something
>on the disk), and just get going, with BGUI/MUI/NDK/ADE and anything else they could want.

Well, you have just about exactly described the CD-ROM I first proposed to AT about nine
months ago.  We were prepared to invest hundreds of manhours in organizing such a CD,
converting docs to AmigaGuide/HTML files, etc.  We've since given up on the idea of
working with AT on such a CD, however that doesn't mean the idea itself is dead yet.
I have a couple other angles I'm working on to try to support the Amiga developers,
but sadly that apparently won't include any official developer material from AT.

-Fred
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