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Robert C. Arp, Jr.
278-1 San Tomas Aquino Rd.
Campbell, Ca 95008
March 15, 1989
To all concerned:
I have been writing a book called "Atari ST Machine Specific
Programming In Assembly". Until now, I have assumed that
interested parties would already have some knowledge about
assembly language programming and that the interest would be in a
book that covered the more advanced topics associated with
programming the ST machine specifically. However, after trying
to gather interest during the GEnie conference on March 14, 1989,
I have begun to reconsider both the topic level and the initial
size of the book.
It may be that a beginner's text is still desired by ST
users. Furthermore, it seems that the cost of such a text is
more of a consideration than I had assumed. I get the impression
that users would support shorter, less expensive texts. For
example, I now think that users would rather choose from three
short text that were priced at about $15 each rather than be
stuck with a single large text priced at about $35.
I know that the Atari ST community is small enough so that
it has virtually been forgotten by major publishers, but if I can
see definite signs of interest, I will adjust and continue my
work; therefore, in order to obtain some sort of survey results,
I am uploading Chapter 1 of the book, a few sample programs and
this letter.
I would upload more chapters at this time, but since the
text is combined with a lot of graphics, a reader would need 1ST
Word Plus to be able to print out the other chapters. I will
work around this limitation and send up a few more chapters, if
somebody tells me that the interest is there.
The questions I want answered are these:
1. Are ST users interest in such a text?
2. What level is needed: beginner, intermediate, advanced?
3. Three inexpensive books or one rather costly book?
4. I have been preparing the text to be AssemPro assembler
and TEMPUS editor specific. Are there objections to
this?
5. I insist that the text be 100% Atari ST specific. Does
that requirement kill the idea?
6. Since the Atari ST community is so small, I might not be
able to find a major publisher to handle it. Would
normal page size, unbounded copies of the text be
satisfactory?
I will be waiting to hear from you via U.S. or GEnie mail.
Please ask as many questions as you can, and please give me as
much input about your specific needs as you desire. I will
consider no input to be trivial. I have been programming for
many years, but I am still in touch with the needs of beginners
because I have been a beginner at one thing or another during my
entire life.
Sincerely,
Bob