Conference hydra::amiga_v1

3625.0. "Submitting to Amiga Software Library" by MILKWY::JANZEN (Tom 2285421 FXO/28 Franklin MA) Wed Mar 28 1990 10:02

    Let's say I get corporate permission, what does it take to impress Fred
    Fish and get something onto the AmigaLib?
    I have written a program in C that improvises music out a MIDI port. 
    It is menued and has a string gadget and graphics (draws the shape of
    the music to be played) but does not have iconographic gadgets.
    If I follow his instructions and make a nice directory with a drawer
    icon and a project icon for the program, and write a little manual,
    could it get on?
    I don't think he has a MIDI music set up so he can't run the program
    (except to diddle his modem ;-)  ) .  Does he have a friend with a midi
    setup who looks at MIDI submissions?
    Maybe I should write him over the network about it.
    Do we know his rate of rejection of submissions?
    Tom

    I don't have any inside information on Fred Fish's operations, but I
    suspect, based on my DECUS experience, that his rejection rate is very
    low.  Unless you submit a virus I suspect your program will be
    accepted.  When I worked at DECUS we preferred submissions with source,
    so other users could use your stuff in their own programs, adapting it
    for their own needs.  However, we never (in the two years that I was
    there) rejected any submission just because it didn't come with source.
        John Sauter

    I intend to provide sourc.es. Hm. thanks
    Tom

I posted a program I wrote (CM - Celestial Mechanics Simulator) to the USENET
and a few weeks later, it appeared on a fish disk.

john