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In article <4bd6du$4kk@mirv.unsw.edu.au>, amiga@cse.unsw.edu.au (Amiga
Utilities) writes:

>>You're right.  We don't have the time right now.  There is always the
near
>>future, right? :)
>
>Or third parties.

Probably not.  See below.

>>But, yes.  We do reserve the right to restrict EX development.  That is
our
>>perogative, like it or not.  There are good reasons for it too.  Many,
I'm
>>sure, that you would agree with. :)
>
>I beleive you, but really can't think of any good reasons to not let
people
>write an EX for the equipment they own. Would you care to explain why you
>are keeping the EX details secret?

First, EX development is not easy.  In the code for the Amiga versions,
there is no API in the strictest sense and most of the code is not
documented or commented very well.

Second, we must restrict EX development to the publishers of software or
the manufacturers of the hardware.  We cannot allow just anyone to make an
EX.  There is the issue of making an EX that would compete with our own
products and/or interfere in the development and/or marketing of new
products.

Third, the question of support of the EXes.  Who would ultimately be
responsible for the support and maintenance of these EXes?  Unfortunately,
in the final analysis, it would probably be us.  At least if we kept EX
development in-house, we can better calculate the "burden" of supporting
EXes.  With third-party EX developers, it would significantly be more
difficult to estimate.

Eventually, we would like to offer an SDK for EX development for the
"BackBone(tm)" version of our products, which we could possibly port back
to the Amiga.  Right now, we do not have the resources to support an EX
SDK for the Amiga versions of the product.  As the SDK really doesn't
exist.

We shall look further into the CD Audio EX.  Thanks for the information on
the SCSI-2 specs on control of CD audio.

Regards,

John Chang
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John Chang, Technical Support Manager, Scala, Inc. USA
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