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- From: aforrest@cs.strath.ac.uk (Andrew R Forrest CS92)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Why bother registering?
- Message-ID: <11299@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 12:17:12 GMT
- References: <11263@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.strath.ac.uk
- Followup-To: Why bother registering?
- Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
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- In article <11263@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>, I, aforrest@cs.strath.ac.uk wrote:
- >
- >Does anyone know what (programming) documentation you get after
- >registering in the UK as an official Amiga "Registered Developer"? Do you
- >get all the reference manuals, or updates or what?
- >
- >Also does anyone from CBM know when the 3.0 stuff is going to be released
- >to the public?
- >
-
- Thanks to everybody who replied - here follows the various bits and bobs
- I was sent (in chronological order).
-
-
- Andy Colebourne <andy@comp.lancs.ac.uk>:
-
-
- "It is well worth becoming a [registered] developer if you want to
- program the Amiga. I have been a registered one for 2 years now. If you
- join at the start of next year then you will only pay 1/2 price (about 40
- quid).
-
- "You get loads of documentation - I have just recieved a large amount all
- about 3.0. You also get ROM-files that enable you to run 2.0/3.0 on a 500
- etc. The autodocs are man-pages on disk and are extremely useful.
-
- The hardware discounts are good to - I bought a 1200 for 300 quid well
- before it was officially released."
-
-
- From Bill Bennet <warda@vax.ox.ac.uk>:
-
-
- "...buying the _Native_ Developer's Kit for 25 quid gets you four disks,
- containing includes, headers, FD files, autodocs, debugging/development
- tools, example source code for 2.0, debugging/development advice docs, and
- the CATS AmigaMail docs. The example source and the CATS notes are
- available from Fish disks, but the rest is copyright. This also obviates
- having to buy the "Includes and Autodocs" manual, since all the info is
- provided on-disk. It's a good deal, basically."
-
-
- Also thanks to Steve McKinty <smckinty@france.sun.com>:
-
-
- "If you write to Commodore UK they'll send you all the info. Write to:
-
- Sharon Rodrigo
- Developer Support
- Commodore Business Machines (UK) Ltd.
- Commodore House
- The Switchback
- Gardner Road
- Maidenhead
- Berks
- SL6 7XA"
-
-
- Anybody want to make this into a FAQ?
-
- >Thanks.
-
- -Andrew
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- | \=====\ | Andrew Forrest - 2nd Year Computing Science |
- | /\\ | University of Strathclyde - aforrest@cs.strath.ac.uk |
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