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- This is a BETA TEST version of MiNT 0.96.
- IT IS NOT THE FINAL RELEASE OF MiNT 0.96. It still
- contains MANY bugs. It's very messy, and probably
- incompatible with tons of stuff.
-
- Use this only if you make regular backups of your
- hard drive, have no fear of mysterious crashes,
- and have "nerves of steel". Also, it's distributed
- only in source code form, so it will be useful
- to you only if you have a C compiler and know
- (very well) how to use it. This is deliberate; this
- version of MiNT will not be supported by me, so I want
- only users who are capable of compiling the program
- themselves to use it.
-
- I'm sending this out in its unfinished form because
- it seems quite likely that the "final" release of
- MiNT 0.96 will take much longer than I had hoped.
- I'm desperately trying to finish my thesis, because
- in a few weeks I'm moving halfway across North America.
- So, basically, I have very little time to spend on MiNT
- these days. I wanted to make the new features of version
- 0.96 available (many people have requested copies), but
- since I don't have time to support MiNT right now (and
- since this version still isn't debugged) I decided to
- make this a source-code only release. Please see the
- file "copying" (which is different from the standard MiNT
- copying conditions) and respect my wishes not to have
- binary versions of this unfinished code distributed.
-
- (Bug reports for this version will be gratefully accepted,
- but due to time constraints I may be very slow in replying
- to your reports; please do not be offended by this, I wish I
- did have more time!)
-
- Thank you,
- Eric Smith
-
- Compuserve: 71064,1305
- GEnie: E.SMITH10
- Internet: eric.smith@uwo.ca
-