PaulJ wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 4:48 pm
I'll have to run the link through the translator... when I see German my eye's glaze over and I usually turn my attention to something else. I have been using Pure C as my perferred development system on the Atari but documentation appears to be its weakest issue. Mark Williams C has good documentation but I was running into strange errors so I went to Pure C which works well for me. There appeared to be a lot more German documentation than English.
There had been two stumbling stones at that time
- there was some rift between the ATARI market in different countries due to hardware limitations/popularity. E.g. you had to decide what kind of monitor you bought instead of one monitor that can deal with it all (the first multi sync monitor appeared later and was incredible expensive). In Germany the most popular ATARI monitor was the SM124, the UK focussed more on color monitors (and gaming) - with the result that some software hardly considered the pecularities of the ST medium mode (or low mode), while other software hardly used the higher resolution of the SM 124 (or even considered to be written in a way that it also could utilize much higher resolutions).
- there was no european economic area (that was introduced mid 1992) when the ATARI market was striving and every vendor had to deal with all the customs stuff (like in Brexit times). So if you still decided to deal without your country then you had to deal with all this and of course all the expenses needed for translation, printing language specific manuals, etc.