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Article #2103Re: Sources on net.micro.atari
From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 20:54
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 20:54
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There are sometimes good reasons for making binaries freely available but not sources. In the case of Megaroids, it is probably in the best interests of Megamax to not distribute the source for free. Since the purpose of Megaroids is to advertise the Megamax C compiler, they probably want to avoid having N buggy versions of Megaroids floating around, which they would have if source were commonly available, because people would modify it and then distribute the modified versions. Also, they might have some time critical stuff as inline assembly language. This would tend to make it hard to compile on other C compilers unless they both use the same format for inline assembly. Since they want Megaroids to be available to people who don't have Megamax C (yet!), binary is the way to go. -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ism780c.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Sources on net.micro.atari Message-ID: <265@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 15:54:01 EST Article-I.D.: ism780c.265 Posted: Thu Jan 16 15:54:01 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 08:22:30 EST References: <347@ihnet.UUCP> <185@imagen.UUCP> <660@ihlpm.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Distribution: net Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 16