Apple Graphics & Arcade Game Design by Jeffrey Stanton

[+Allan]

Does anybody know if this book is on the Net in PDF form? I have the book and was looking to see if someone had scanned it. If it's not on the Net anywhere I'm willing to scan it. I just don't want to wast the book if someone already did.

 

Allan

[Keatah]

It is available from open library. But it has like this retarded DRM on it that doesn't work on older systems. There's lots of short-bus sellers asking as much as $500. Been up for sale for years with no buyers. If you scan it we can all graduate from the slow-school of internet dumbness and have another quality book properly preserved.

[Hatta]

Please do scan it. Not enough Apple II books have been preserved.

[Arkhan]

I have that book and it looks brand new. That's why I haven't bothered launching it through the scanner.

 

 

:-/ why haven't many apple books been preserved? Seems like C64 is the one that got all the preservation.

[The Usotsuki]

Because there's a mentality among a lot of the remaining Apple ][ users that favors actually paying money for hardcopy.

[Hatta]

:-/ why haven't many apple books been preserved? Seems like C64 is the one that got all the preservation.

 

There's a thread for that.

[Keatah]

In this case, Apple II users are probably TOO much old school.

[+Allan]

OK. I will do it. It's a nice book. Some of the Atari books I've done a kind of crappy but I did them for the sake of completion. But this book is nice and might help some who wants to do an Apple game. I'm not really into the Apple II but since I have it I might as well do it. It looks like it will be an easy book to do and now that Albert has increased the upload amount here I can post it for people to download.

 

Allan

[Keatah]

1up

[+Allan]

Happy birthday!

 

Note: Fixed page 75.

 

Allan

Apple_Graphics_and_Arcade_Game_Design.zip

[+Allan]

I have another Apple book, Apple IIgs Assembly Language Programming by Leo Scanlon and I was going to scan it but I found it on the Net. If anybody is interested in this book or the cut up book of Apple Graphics and Arcade Game Design, let me know. The cut up book some can have if they just pay for shipping and a couple of bucks for time and packaging. I kind of hate to toss it.

 

Glad you guys like the book. Hopefully it will be put to good use.

 

Allan

[Keatah]

I already have a physical copy of the book you just destroyed. But, maybe someone can use for scanning practice?

[dudeslife]

Because there's a mentality among a lot of the remaining Apple ][ users that favors actually paying money for hardcopy.

 

when the remaining few die off, they will have ensured that no legacy was left. Just dealing with a few of these guys has turned me off on their whole community. I was thinking of going to KansasFest but I have realized I have nothing in common with a bunch of people who seem intent on making sure knowledge is not passed on and that their community shrinks every year.

 

Compare it to the C64/Amiga communities that thrive and grow. it's a shame. I have picked up a lot of rare and impossible to find apple II books and will eventually scan them but I no longer feel the fire to better their community that I felt when I bought my first Apple IIe a couple of years ago. and thanks Allan for that scan, I will pm you when mine are ready. Here a few that I will be doing. The first two would cost you $450.oo on Amazon used, and third one. well good luck ever seeing a physical copy anywhere.

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2013 by dudeslife

[The Usotsuki]

Maybe it would help to have a parallel community to theirs for the more openminded Apple ][ fans

[+Allan]

Maybe someone should start one here. We have a TI community, a Intellivision one and a Coleco one.

 

I love the IIgs but I only have so much time so I want to concentrate on the Atari 8-bit.

 

Allan

[Keatah]

Pfaaaaghhh!! I say fuck them all. The sons of bitches are nothing but old gray senile farts blowing in the wind. Scan their wares, make the value go down because a PDF is now available! Excellent!

 

I'm "hard at work", as we speak, mapping out the electrical traces on some interface cards, The Mountain Hardware Expansion Chassis at the moment. We need to be able to repair and modify these types of things, do we not?

 

In the end, where the fart-gasses escape from, open source and free knowledge always win out. Let us ensure it continues to do so.

[Keatah]

There's a lot on Asimov and Apple2Online already. And a few other sites. Let's keep the trains rolling and the planes-a-flying! Every new bit of old and long-lost bit of data recovered is a 1-up for the community.

 

You know, the cranky old asses wouldn't understand it if it bit their sagging man-tits!

[Keatah]

Deflate them old-gassers with each and every scan. And in the end (a smelly shit-smeared ass crack), you can scan those books and better my 1-man community.

[Keatah]

As a matter of fact I have a whole 4 rubbermaid tubs of books and material I know for a fact is not to be found on any website nor ftp site. I've looked at them all.

 

Eventually I will get around to it. It may take some time, but I'm wrapped up in a lot of things, I'm trying to crack a couple of astronomy programs right now and then I've got plans to build a ruggedized platinum //e. But they will get put out there in good time.

 

Which reminds me I have to send Dr. Ken some A+ rags for scanning. SHIT SHIT! I forgot about that from last year. SHIT!

[Keatah]

I want Al to make an Apple II forum. But I asked before and nothing got done. This Atariage and about 4 or 5 other websites are the only ones worth visiting for II series stuff. A shame our messages have to be scattered all over.

 

With Apple II stuff gaining speed, we need it now more than ever.

[+Allan]

In a way I regret selling my Apple II mags. I could have scanned them all. But I do have quite a few Atari stuff to scan.

I'm scanning the Syn series now. It sucks because it is smooth paper and my feeder doesn't like the paper. I'll have to do it manually. What a pain.

 

Allan

[Arkhan]

Keatah, there is an edit button for posts. You should use it, captain quadruple post.

 

lol

 

Also, I would be interested in the cut up copy of the book for a friend, if it is still available, please PM me

[potatohead]

Thanks for scanning this.

 

I would enjoy and participate on an Apple sub-forum here.

[+wood_jl]

I have a nice IIe with some graphics problem, so I haven't been able to try out CFFA3000 yet. But I'd like to see a "mini" Apple II community here.

 

As this is AtariAge, there are likely other people in a similar situation to myself: Classic Atari 400/800/XL/XE user back in the day. Don't know crap about the Apple II, other than wanted one in 1978. Don't know DOS 3.3 from ProDos, which is used, why. A mini Atari user--->Apple II newbie community would be cool, and kind of spread the 8-bit interest across the platforms a little. With the SD-card floppy eliminator devices and the internet, it's really easy and fun - as an old-school Atari computer user - to experiment with the other 8-bitters. Books can only help!

 

But I do notice a lot of openness and sharing in the C64 community. I haven't looked yet at the Apple II community and was assuming the same, but the news here is not encouraging. I'll have to Ebay another IIe one of these days (one that works) and find out!

[The Usotsuki]

There's always exceptions. I've been very open with what little I've contributed. Because sharing is caring ~.^

 

Some of my concepts have been expanded on - Automizer and cassette port autoload (the latter inspired by ADTpro sideloading but made simpler for the user) led to the game site on Asciiexpress.net. Others have done similar projects to mine.

 

I grew up in an Apple ][ world, but with the mindset of a C64 user. Back in the day, I had tons of pirated software on disk - I didn't think twice about it.