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2    Basilisk II
3    A 68k Macintosh emulator
4  
5 <  Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Christian Bauer et al.
5 >  Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Christian Bauer et al.
6  
7  
8   License
# Line 787 | Line 787 | versions of Basilisk II and MacOS being
787   the exact steps to reproduce the bug, etc.):
788    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2123&atid=102123
789  
790 + I also strongly suggest reading this before posting a bug report:
791 +  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
792 +
793  
794   Author
795   ------
796  
797 < You can contact me at <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>. Don't send bug
798 < reports, send fixes. Ports to other platforms are also very welcome.
799 < Please contact me before you intend to make major changes to the source.
800 < You might be working on something that I have already done, or I may have
801 < different ideas about the Right Way to do it.
802 <
803 < Questions about ROM files will not be answered. There is also no point in
804 < sending me questions etc. that are specific to the Windows port of
805 < Basilisk II. I don't have Windows and can't say anything about that.
806 < Ask Lauri Pesonen instead.
797 > You can contact me at <Christian.Bauer@uni-mainz.de>, but please don't do
798 > so unless absolutely necessary. I'm maintaining Basilisk II in my spare
799 > time and am not able to provide technical support for everyone. If you have
800 > questions, consider posting them to one of the support forums mentioned
801 > below.
802 >
803 > You are encouraged to contact me personally when
804 > - you have bug fixes or small enhancements for the code
805 > - you want to port Basilisk II to another platform
806 > - you want to discuss technical issues
807 > - you intend to make major changes to the source; you might be working on
808 >   something that I have already done, or I may have different ideas about
809 >   the Right Way to do it
810 >
811 > There is no point in sending me questions about
812 > - ROM files and how/where to get them
813 > - versions of Basilisk II that run on operating systems other than Unix,
814 >   BeOS and AmigaOS. If you are using any other operating system, there's
815 >   no point in asking me how to to X or why Y doesn't work because I won't
816 >   know either. Instead, you should look in the "Acknowledgements" section
817 >   of this manual to find the person responsible. For example, if your
818 >   question is specific to the Windows operating system, ask Lauri Pesonen.
819 >   I don't have Windows and can't answer your questions and I'm too lazy to
820 >   forward mail to Lauri myself. In any case, it would probably be better
821 >   to post your questions to a public forum as it will get a much wider
822 >   audience there.
823  
824  
825   Support
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840   And another mailing list for Basilisk II developers:
841    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/basilisk-devel
842  
843 + Some general advice about asking technical support questions can be found at
844 +  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
845 +
846 + Keeping this in mind will greatly increase your chances of getting a useful
847 + answer.
848 +
849  
850   History
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