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   From: rodxxxxx.xxuba@free.fr   
      
   I will support the authors on a new project by GIVING the hardware...   
   I mean a hardware with integrated Ethernet and USB chips...   
   If I do a new hardware...what is not the actuallity... now it is CTPCI that   
   must become avalaible.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   pp wrote:   
   > On jún. 20, 22:29, "Rodolphe Czuba"  wrote:   
   >> You speak like the atari domain is a business market....but it is   
   >> just a fun domain.   
   >> No business here...   
   >> And it is why we have so few drivers authors...   
   >>   
   >> I announced that I will propose a special price on CTPCI for   
   >> developers who want to write something like a driver...   
   >> I cannot give hardware to them...   
   >> People who buy atari hardware to me know that they encourage me   
   >> too...if I lost money what is the sense...?   
   >> Some people did some fantastic things on CT60 and just for fun &   
   >> free...   
   >> On my next atari project I will try to furnish freely the hardware   
   >> for a certain period of time and let choice after to the 'developer'   
   >> to buy it at lower price or to send back.   
   >> It will be the better I will be able to do...   
   >   
   >   Rodolphe, you are who proposed money for SW authors,   
   > remember ?   :-)   
   > Actually, myself expect not money to making some SW for Atari people.   
   > As I made some things for free always.  But I don't want to make SW   
   > and while it to spend some not small money ...  That's the problem. I   
   > do not agree that making drivers is fun. It is hard task, and will   
   > make person involved obligated for longer time. Plus, it is not   
   > possible without having real HW - you can not make SW without testing.   
   > Even if we have all USB-stack code perfect working (what I doubt)   
   > making low level, HW specific driver is a lot of work.  Therefore I   
   > said that this is Catch 22 - you talk to not want to loose money. I   
   > say the same  :-)   
   > Also, I don't expect any HW cheaper, or loaned. It has no much sense,   
   > especially not in advance.   
   > I'm not interested for some Atari clone. I only play sometime games,   
   > and we know that not much of them runs on fast clones. What is with   
   > all those people who bought CT6x ? Nobody of them can programming ?   
   >  We just need to realise  what is known for decades:  that SW for   
   > microcomputers may cost more than HW. But Atari people is used to have   
   > almost everything for free...  This moment I see as only way for USB   
   > that it will be commercial SW, with price, and sold, similar as   
   > Hddriver.   
   >   
   > PP   
      
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