[News] New AmigaOS 4.0 ROM Kernal Reference Manuals in the works! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 16:18 GMT by P Ericson | 86 comments View flat View list |
In a recent interview with Hyperion Software, we're told that Olaf "Olsen" Barthel is working on new ROM Kernal Reference Manuals for AmigaOS 4.0! [The "RKRM" books are the official and prime development documentation/tutorial for AmigaOS developers] As some readers of Amiga Network News may already know, Mr Barthel has previously compiled the Amiga Developer's CD.
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New AmigaOS 4.0 ROM Kernal Reference Manuals in the works! : Comment 46 of 86 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Olaf Barthel on 25-Apr-2002 13:56 GMT | In reply to Comment 44 (anon): > But Ben said printing on demand is cheaper than licensing a game
> title. Where is the problem Olaf? :)
I don't know. When did you last license a game title, and how much
did you have to pay for it? Books than run into >500 pages are not
exactly inexpensive today. Especially if they are made for only a
small market. For example, take "Applied Cryptography", which has
more than 750 pages. If the RKM Devs were set to the same page size,
I would estimate that it came out at 900 pages. Now suppose that,
because the RKM Devs is not a groundbreaking book which sets the
standard for its genre, it probably won't sell 100.000 copies.
Guess how much the RKM Devs would have to cost ("Applied Cryptography"
costs about 55 US$ in the paperback edition). Are you prepared to
fork over 60-80 US$ for that manual? Compare this to the RKM Libs,
which is even larger... |
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