======================================================================= * ATARI CORPORATION OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ======================================================================= January 15, 1992 I am pleased to announce that Atari is making all of the released TOS development information available to the general public. We are making the kit available to fulfil the needs of programmers that already have purchased a third-party development package, Atari owners that are curious about the 'nuts and bolts' of The Operating System, and anyone else that wants to have a detailed understanding of TOS software development. If you wish, you may purchase the entire kit for $150.00 (U.S.) and also get one year of technical support from Atari via the private Atari Developer Roundtable on GEnie, 6 issues of the bi-monthly Developer Newsletter, ATARI.RSC, and one year of on-going developer kit upgrades. If you wish to renew after one year, there is a fee of only $40.00. If you wish information on only certain aspects of Atari TOS computers, we also sell sections of the kit separately. The items that are available range from every issue of the developer newsletter since 1985, to the release notes for the exciting new STBOOK. Every detail a software or hardware developer could want is outlined, including MegaSTE /TT VME Bus specifications, STE DMA sound, FSM GDOS programming information, and more. Please see the order form for details. You must purchase the $150.00 full kit to be eligible for on-going support. I'm sorry, but at this time, you may not purchase a part of the kit, and later "upgrade" to the support level. Developers that are currently not registered with Atari, and have a commercial product on the market, or have a product in development, or have any other special needs requiring direct unlimited telephone support should sign up under the Atari Commercial Developer Program. There is an additional fee for this program, but there is no renewal fee required as long as you continue product development and support. (Educators, universities, and businesses may fall into this category.) Please contact Gail Bacani on 408-745-2022 for more information on the Commercial Developer Program. The complete order form follows, outlining all of the documentation that is available. Please note that several items include disks containing software relating to the documentation. We want to assure that you get the most out of your Atari Computer experience! Sincerely, Bill Rehbock, Director of Technical Services, Atari Corp. Atari TOS Developer's Kit -- Order Form -- January 4, 1992 ________ $150.00 Complete Developer's Kit, including all documents and and disks. Includes 1 year of support via Atari-RSC Developer Roundtable on GEnie, on-going developer kit updates for 1 year, and 6 issues of ATARI.RSC, the bi-monthly developer newsletter. ________ $40.00 One year renewal fee -- 1 year of support via Atari-RSC Developer Roundtable on GEnie, on-going developer kit updates for 1 year, and 6 issues of ATARI.RSC, the bi-monthly developer newsletter. Document and Disk Packages ________ $10.00 Atari.RSC Newsletters (Dec. '89, Jan. '90, Feb. '90, Mar. '90, Apr. '90, May '90, June '90, July '90, Aug. '90, Sept. '90, Oct. '90, Nov. -- Jan. '90-'91, Apr. -- May '91, June -- July '91) The Atari Forum (Mar. '88, May '88, July -- Aug. '88, Sep. -- Dec. '88 Fuji Stripe Newsletter, pages 3 -- 7 (undated) Q & A Bulletins (Feb. '86, Mar. '86, Apr. '86, May '86, June '86, Feb. '87) ________ $20.00 Atari GEMDOS Reference Manual Table of Contents (Apr. 4, 1986) Introduction (5/22/86) Calling, filenames, fileops, processes, vectors, errors (4/4/86) GEMDOS functions by number (undated) Funcs (4/10/86) except pages (9), (21), and (25) (1-23-89) and page (13) (3/7/90) Prg (4/4/86) Pexec Cookbook (6 Sept. 1991) Hitchhiker's Guide to the BIOS (Nov. 26, 1985) New pages: 5, 7, 12, 16, 38, 56, 75 (1-23-89) New pages: 15, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 37a (3-5-90) AHDI 3.00 Release Notes (April 18, 1990) Atari CHKDISK3 Documentation (April 22, 1990) TOS Developer's Kit Disk #4: HDX / System Utilities / STE Programming Examples / CHKDISK3 ________ $40.00 GEM Programming Guide Volume 1 -- VDI (Third Edition: January 1989) Volume 2 -- AES (Third Edition: January 1989) GDOS/FSM GDOS Developer Guide (10/91) GEM Resource Construction Set (undated) TOS Developer's Kit Disk #2: MicroEMACS / Source Code Examples / RCS ________ $40.00 Gem DOS Programmer's Tools (undated, copyright 1989) Command Shell AS68 MADMAC Reference Manual (ver. 1.00) & update (ver. 1.07) ALN Docs. (8/12/88) and update sheet (90/01/24) AR68 (Archive Utility) (undated) DUMP SIZE68 DB Docs. (Release 2, 90/01/24) Motorola S-Record Format TOS Developer's Kit Disk #1: Alcyon C Compiler / ALN Linker TOS Developer's Kit Disk #3: MADMAC / DB Debugger / Programming Utilities / CHKDISK3 ________ $15.00 Engineering Hardware Specifications (7 January 1986) Intelligent Keyboard Protocol (26 February 1985) Chip specifications: 6850 ACIA, MC6850 (undated) 68901 MFP (undated) AY-3-8910 PSG (undated) Programmable Sound Generator Manaual (February 1979) GIACCESS (page 1, March 7, 1990; page 2, 1-23-90) WD 1770/1772 Floppy Disk Controller (undated) Atari Monitor Summary Specifications (May 14, 1986) 128K ROM cartridge schematics (1-2-85) Blitter Chip (17 June 1987) ________ $25.00 STE Hardware Developer Addendum STE features list Genlock and the STE Video Modifications How to Implement Fine Scrolling on the STE STE Digitized Sound Developer Information TT030 Hardware Reference Manual VME Bus Specifications for TT030 and Mega STE Products Rainbow TOS Release Notes STE TOS Release Notes TT030 TOS Release Notes STBook Expansion Bus Electrical Specification TOS Developer's Kit Disk #4: HDX / System Utilities / STE Programming Examples / CHKDISK3 TOS Developer's Kit Disk #5: Demonstrator/eXtensible Control Panel $____________ Subtotal $____________ Tax (CA 8.25%, IL 6.75%, TX 8.25%) $____________ Total Check #:______________ Date:_____________ Company Name:___________________________ Contact:____________________ Ship to:____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ******* Make sure you return both pages of the order form. ******** Please allow 2 - 4 weeks for processing. Make checks payable in U.S. funds to Atari Corporation. Direct all orders to: Atari Corp. 1196 Borregas Avenue Sunnyvale, Calif., U.S.A. 94086 Attn: Gail Bacani <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the "Atari Corporation Online" category (14) from the "Atari's new TOS 2.06" topic (8) Message 156 Thu Jan 16, 1992 TOWNS [John Atari] at 04:01 EST Steve, Jim, et al: I am far from the head of TOS Development. Leonard Tramiel is my boss and he is the person that could qualify for the title of "Head of TOS Development." And just so you are aware, there are about 6-7 people working on TOS directly and about 10-15 more working on various other things relating to TOS. For example, 3-4 people (mostly three) worked directly on FSMGDOS for quite some time. 4 people (myself included) worked on the Extensible Control Panel, etc. The number of people doing software has increased over the years. We rarely have people leave from this department of the company and we work on LOTS of stuff relating to maintaining/improving TOS. BTW.. In case you were wondering, Leonard's offical title is Vice President of Software. His counterpart is Richard Miller who is Vice President of Hardware (I think his title is something like that) and both report directly to Sam Tramiel, CEO and President of Atari Corp. If you have any other questions, please ask away. Just wanted to clear up the misconception about our software development here at Atari. There are actually quite a few people in the department (We are a good sized department, nothing close to what you would find at IBM or Apple, but not 2-3 people either ;-) and from what I hear, we could be expanding in the future (LOTS and LOTS of stuff to do !!)