Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
From: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (LaMonte Koop)
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:00:00 -0600
Reply-To: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
 <92232.132045TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu>,<1992Aug21.021701.4770@tronsbox.xei.com>
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

In article <1992Aug21.021701.4770@tronsbox.xei.com>, bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
>In article <92232.132045TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu> TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Marc is a registered developer, that means he is supposed to be
>>developing products, if he isn't then he shouldn't be a registered
>>developer.  Thus, it is Marc's job to be productive.
>>The point of registering as a developer is not to gain inside info just
>>to have the extra knowledge, its so that the info can be used to better
>>your products.
>>I personally do not know if Marc has developed any products.  I haven't
>>seen any with his name on it, but I haven't seen every Amiga product.
>>So Marc, what have you developed?
>>(and before you ask me what I have developed, I'm not a registered
>>developer, thou I am working on some stuff)
>>
>
>It would be interesting to see how many of the $20 registered
>developers have produced code.  For many people, registering is a
>legal way to obtain official header files to use with DICE, and a way
>to keep from re-inventing the wheel.  We've got no intention of
>producing anything worthy of distribution (although some of us
>accidentally do :) ).

    There is no such thing as a "$20 registered developer".  Certified
developer status requires a $75 per year fee plus a $25 startup fee.
Commercial developer status is on the order of $500 per year.  I believe
you are referring to the "Native Developer Update" available from CATS,
which gives the C and assembly header files you mention, as well as some
other good development material.  However, this particular package is
not restricted to actual registered developers, and may be obtained by
contacting CATS.
    The issue being mentioned here is that Marc has mentioned his status
as a Certified Developer.  As such, it is not unreasonable to expect him
to at least be making some sort of contribution towards development for the
Amiga.  Developer status is not something that should be taken as a nice
convienient way to gain inside information.  It is intended to give people
developing tools for the Amiga access to information necessary for such
tools to maintain useful status as the system progresses.
    Marc has used his status as a developer at times to make claims that he
knows what is truly in store for the Amiga, and to make a good number of
claims against the machine's future.  Yet it does appear he has in no way
used said status to actually develop for the Amiga.  In honesty, this is
a bit insulting to myself, and most likely anyone else who has worked to
develop something for the Amiga, rather than just proclaim its faults.

> *         Bill Cavanaugh       bleys@tronsbox.xei.com          *

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            LaMonte Koop -- SCSU Electrical/Computer Engineering
 Internet: lkoop@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu -OR- f00012@kanga.stcloud.msus.edu
               "You mean you want MORE lights on this thing???"
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