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- From: "Reinhard Katzmann" <Suamor@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> The Future: Amiga goes P
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:11:50 -0500
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- Ben Hutchings schrieb in comp.sys.amiga.programmer ueber "Re: >>>>>>> The
- Future: Amiga goes P":
- > On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
- > [...]
- > > That's absolutely not real. You can get them (at least in germany) in
- > > every
- > > book store which gets his books from the KNoe book service (just
- > > looked
- > > in the actual 95/96 catalog), price:
- > > 73.-- DM Hardware, Devices
- > > 97.90 DM Includes & Autodocs
- > > 99,90 DM Libraries
- > > 55.-- DM Style Guide
- >
- > Thats 397.80 DM = $260 = 160 GBP by my reckoning for the lot, and those
- > are still nearly 6 years out of date (OS 2.0) if I remember correctly.
-
- No, you don't need Hardware, Includes & Autodocs. Devices is only needed
- when you are programming devices (printer/serial) most application programmer
- don't need it. Style Guide is not that important IMHO if you look closely
- to the existing GUIs (but you should really compare them to get a feeling).
- Me, I own Libaries, Hardware and Devices and do only use Libraries most
- of the time and even that only if I don't understand something in the
- Autodocs.
-
- > Then you also need to buy the Guru Book to get DOS documentation. How
- > many of us younger (<20) Amiga users can afford this documentation? It
- > is
-
- Well I got the books when I was around 20. And I obviously could afford
- them though I have/had never much money. And there are sooo many tools,
- utilities and applications and this newsgroup so you really should have
- no problems writing most kind of applications.
-
- [...]
-
- > I rely on Freeware documentation (e.g. the RKRM companions - very
- > useful), the comments in include files, reverse engineering, other
- > people's code. If I could get hold of official documentation for free, I
- > would be reluctant to turn it down. What is the point in withholding the
- > information which could ensure a higher standard of Amiga freeware?
-
- Well ask C= :-). They have sold the right to publish these things to
- Addison Wesley and they don't give it away easily.
-
- - Reinhard Katzmann
-
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- E-Mail: suamor@student.uni-tuebingen.de
-
- One day I hope to finish my RPS Pertergrin
- Concept for Pertergin (yet in german) avalaible on Request
- Current Amiga-Project: GuideTool (GUI) V1.1BETA
-
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