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- From: fnf@fishpond.amigalib.com (Fred Fish)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Registrated developer, myth or reality?
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 19:10:16 GMT
- Organization: Cronus
- Message-ID: <4fleuo$j3f@globe.indirect.com>
- References: <4f4qn6$q18@columba.udac.uu.se> <549.6611T311T2207@jroger.in-berlin.de> <4fk3o7$2f2@mirv.unsw.edu.au>
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- In article <4fk3o7$2f2@mirv.unsw.edu.au>,
- Amiga Utilities <amiga@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
- >Well, they have been building it a bit too long for my liking. If they can't
- >get their act together fuck them. I'm getting a BeBox, at least Be are
- >supporting their developers AND listening to their suggestions.
-
- Be is being incredibly supportive given the size of their company and
- the fact that their software folks have got to be at least as busy as
- AT's. One thing that does help is that they have a person who's
- fulltime job is to support developers. I find it rather strange that
- AT doesn't.
-
- In May 1995 I first proposed to AT that we would like to do a
- developer CD, which would contain a complete set of development tools
- for both the m68k Amiga and whatever future RISC processor was chosen,
- as well as every possible thing that an Amiga developer might want or
- need that was either freely distributable, licensable from AT, or
- licensable from other parties. I had a pretty large "shopping list"
- of stuff I wanted to include, and we were willing to commit
- significant resources to making this CD the best possible single
- resource for all levels of developers, from the hobbyiest to the
- serious commercial developer. It was intended to be something that
- could even be bundled with every new Amiga sold, and be updated on a
- bimonthly basis.
-
- I won't go into the history of why now, 9 months later, we have
- finally decided to give up on working with AT and are going our own
- way on this project, assuming we do decide to continue with it.
- Instead we are now seriously considering doing something like this for
- the BeBox, although he need for it on the BeBox is not anywhere near
- as acute, since all of Be's developer material is freely available via
- their web site and the BeBox ships with developer tools included.
- At the very least we will be doing something like the ADE for the
- BeBox. See pub/ade/... on ftp.amigalib.com (soon to be ninemoons.com)
- for details.
-
- -Fred
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