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I thought he said he had some stuff from sysops. I guess since you know where it all is, you won't need to concern yourself with it.
"He" said that after I mentioned uploading old stuff to a BBS years ago so the BS chances were high.. I did check through his listings, with a few exceptions (which are newer so immaterial) he has them divided out by the collection he downloaded them from and there were no collections from differently named sources that are not already available.
Sure would have been nice to see a Dark Side of The Moon or Inglewood Forest directory.. hope springs eternal but this particular collection is a bust so I won't be concerning myself with it correct.
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Summa'bitch! Did I see a reader-service card in the last scan?
Oh and here I was hoping you were going to notice I let up on the post processing on the color pages...
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BYTE Vol 11-10 1986-10 Apple II GS - 418 Pages 281,595,273 bytes
Good one this week! Article on The Apple II GS and reviews of the Amiga, and the Compaq Portable II
FEATURES
INTRODUCTION
PRODUCT PREVIEW: THE APPLE II GS
ClARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: BUILD AN INTELLIGENT SERIAL EPROM PROGRAMMER
PROGRAMMING PROJECT: SAFE STORAGE ALLOCATION
SOUND AND THE AMIGA.
PROGRAMMING INSIGHT: A USEFUL PROPERTY OF 2 to the Nth
THEME: PUBLIC DOMAIN POWERHOUSES
INTRODUCTION
PO PROLOG
AN ICON TUTORIAL
ENHANCED CONSOLE DRIVER
ABUNDANCE
Z80MU
CP/M HALL OF FAME
REVIEWS
INTRODUCTION
REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK
THE COMMODORE AMIGA
THE COMPAQ PORTABLE II
FOUR AND A HALF INCH TAPE BACKUP UNITS
MuLlSP-86
ITC's MODULA-2 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM
MICROSOFT WORD VERSION 3.0
THE NORTON UTILITIES. PC TOOLS. AND SUPER UTILITY
REVIEW FEEDBACK
KERNEL
INTRODUCTION
COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: THE SHOW GOES ON?
ACCORDING TO WEBSTER: BIT BY BIT. PUTTING IT TOGETHER
APPLICATIONS ONLY: SHAREWARE
BYTE JAPAN: TAIWAN'S COMPUTEX 1986
BYTE U.K .: BASIC TO C by Dick Pountain
BEST OF BIX
Amiga
Atari ST
IBM PC
Macintosh
S-100
EDITORIAL: SIGNS OF VITALITY
MICROBYTES
LETTERS
WHAT'S NEW.
EVENTS AND CLUBS
ASK BYTE
CIRCUIT CELLAR FEEDBACK
BOOK REVIEWS
CHAOS MANOR MAIL
BOMB RESULTS AND NEXT MONTH IN BYTE
Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 11-10 1986-10 Apple II GS.pdf
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Can you tell us the date range of the current notes and atari interface mags that you have? I have 80+ of the current notes magazines but the first issue I have is dated 1984 (volume 4 so presumably they go back as far as 1981).
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There's always TOSEC Atari 8-bit at the Internet Archive.
Hmm. I went through the list this morning.. With this link and the other links in this thread I don't see much on the provided list that is not already available with a few clicks (I did not go through the entire list in detail).. I also took the games in his list that started with the letter "A" and could find nothing that was not already in the atarimania archive.. Though there were over 50 in Atarimania that were not it his list (I stopped looking at 50). A similar archive for someone who just wants a lot of Atari material could be put together over a weekend if someone wanted to commit to doing a lot of downloading. Maybe its time to make one... looking at the printed material that was missed that is readily available and adding it would probably put it in the 40 gig range to start... That's assuming the 23 Gig mentioned in the original post is correct.
I'd love the meta data that atarimania has but baring that at least there would be a complete archive. There is some real work involved in organizing and removing duplicates (the list provided was rife with them) so that new finds could be added and specific nuggets removed.
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While I was renaming the kilobaud I saw another book I had scanned but not posted that was already uploaded to the site.. So new bonus!
OS-9 Color Computer Technical Manual - 1,116 pages 220,004,884 Bytes
This is the OS-9 manual for the Color computer... I have been able to find it on other sites but the quality is quite bad (scanned from when bandwidth was more at a premium) plus the one I scanned had an additional 300 pages.. I think this could be shrunk down further without much perceptible loss..
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Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/scans/other/OS-9 Color Computer Technical Manual.pdf
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Excellent! Thanks you much sir! I made the change and uploaded the modified mag so the link now points to the new mag.
I wasn't sure what I had for Kilobaud, been a while.. Looks like most of the issue up through number 81 but 7-12 are missing... Hard to collect this mag as the name changed three time during its run.
Anyway. thanks! Don't suppose you have #23 scanned and ready? I have that one and #73 (has a vic-20 on the cover) sliced up and ready to scan next and they have similar artistic donations to the covers.
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A quick blurb on bandwidth: My monthly bandwidth is measured mid month (15th to the 15th). For this last period the BYTE bandwidth was just short of a terabyte (955 Gigs) still not a whisper from godaddy... maybe there is a BYTE fan lurking amongst them
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Sigh.....Its the attitude that annoys..
True.. Since this thread started atarimania has added 1 new atari 8-bit book, 1 new 8-bit program, 21 new ST dumps, 6 new magazines, 4 new manuals .. I hope someday they build a local interface for the database they have been building for years and sell it on a USB drive.. That would be worth more that 20 bucks to me even without the binaries.
To the OP: You keep saying good bye, it's like watching a bad actors death seen as he flops around the room for 20 minutes after being shot... Go start your site and good luck on making that mint.
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No link for you. but your words really hurt.... my poor feelings. I mean, I get my validation and self esteem from a forum... oh wait, that is actually other people..
Yeah didn't think so... ba bye
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You're are partially correct, as i am not going to charge people, it was a "what if" alternative to the idea of selling a disc. Honestly he should have said the disc was $2 and shipping and handling was $18.
All this complaining did was cause him to decide not to share. Good job. I understand you are butt-hurt about being wrong about the gpl.
Provide the link or you are a useless lying troll.
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Just weeding out the crackpots. I like the implication that the books were stolen from a site.... good one.
I keep hearing about some atari archive book/mag archive that was taken down due to a bunch of copyright whiners. If someone knows something about this or has the archive, I can host it with no fear of someone forcing it down...
Who said stolen? (I mean beside you) Where is the link? I want to get some of this extra stuff you said was there...
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What are you talking about? You don't have to be a member to download anything from the database.
Allan
I think hes just trolling at this point...
I'm assuming he is talking about bombjack.. the atari section has a combined total of 18 documents.
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there are more atari books in the commodore archive.
Come on... There are 138 (8-bit) books in just the "books" section... that doesn't even count the manuals (another 130) technical documents (another 30) all for free download this is the 8-bit only section so it is not counting the ST.. They are pushing 1000 Atari magazine/newsletters.
If they have more Atari material it is because they took from that site and added one - how can you put a negative spin on that?? Please post the commodre link...
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I would love to know what became of the "atari magazine archive" that i hear about from time to time. I always wondered why atari didn't have a collection of books and mags like the commodore guys do. Sounds like the shitty apple 2 "community" to me...
atarimania.com - click "mags" ... or click "Atari 400/800" then "books/docs"
I am not connected with the site in any way - but it is an amazing site that is 99% all give for the community.
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What ever gave you the idea that I just "clicked" and downloaded any of this stuff? You make an assumption then ride my ass about it? This has gotten totally ridiculous. If the mods had locked the thread when I asked, then this flame-war would be over. There is only one person that has responded to this thread that even makes sense. So just stop. It has been a total waste of my time to even start this topic. I have already stated my position, so just take it or leave it. I dont feel I am in a position where I have to continually defend myself against all these assumptions. If it is so easy to just click and download this stuff, go do it, you dont need my copy. If you feel I am scamming on the back of somebody's hard work, good for you. I don't live or die on what you think anyway.
Are you still here?
There is a difference between attacking and robust dialog.. As I said in my initial reply - I could care less how much you are selling it for. I think if you had stated your initial post in a little more community friendly terms and also put up (or worked with someone else to put up) a torrent so that there was a free option.. Well you would have had buyers from those not wanting to download 23 gigs and probably not much in the way of backlash.I agree with Allen - the PD stuff is really important as much of it appears to be in danger of being lost forever.
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I agree with thumps point but its an awkward one over all, the factor of different in dev time is obviously crucial, no one wants current dev games being sold for cash and I fully support that unless its the devs etc getting the cash!
However the collector in me wants to see the old stuff just in case so I can weed out any goodies to post I'm sure Atari Frog has the same mindset as me.
Same here.. really only interested in the older stuff for history sake... I also had some programs that I uploaded to only one location (a local AMIS bulletin board "BUG") nothing overly exciting - A crappy pac-man clone called "Steal a kiss", a PC Pursuit scanner, a telnet (before it became Sprintnet) scanner, and a modem to modem checkers game that only worked on XM301 and 1030 modems that I was quite proud of and actually had Antic pay me for it just before they imploded. I lost it all going though a divorce.. All my disks with source code thrown out (she sold everything real cheap one day when she was upset about some odd thing).
Anyway I always hold out hope that some disk will turn up somewhere with my own personal little buried treasure. I imagine there are hundreds or thousands of people that have done the same so there must be lots of one-offs out there. I hate to discount any disk that might contain some new nugget
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Bonus magazine!
Kilobaud Issue #21 1978-09 - 166 Pages 110,061,050 bytes
I have been trying to pare down my collection as of late .. Currently just mags where I have duplicates but the rest later on.. Anyway some of these dup mags are in too bad of shape to sell so sadly they are being foistered on you the public in digital form before passing from this Earth so as to ease some of my guilt in throwing them away.
This is issue #21 of Kilobaud magazine... For those that do not know the story "Kilobaud" was originally going to be called "KiloByte" and was started by the same person that started BYTE. when he and his wife parted ways she took control of BYTE. When the (then) current BYTE people found out about "KiloByte" they quickly trademarked it for a comic strip than ran inside of byte, so "KiloByte" was instead named "KiloBaud"
I will post a few more of these magazines (and some others) as time goes on.. Interesting magazine. The cover is also the table of contents.
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Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/scans/other/Kilobaud 21 1978-09.pdf-
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This is not the only place I can go to share it. I could probably even setup my own A8 site. Maybe I will maybe I wont. I'm just not going to worry about sharing it if people think that gathering it all up and saving it all these years is worth nothing. I did it because the A8 was my first real computer and it still keeps me happy to this day. So, like I asked the moderator, please lock this thread. There's nothing more to say.
Following on Geezers comments... You have 20+ gigs of atari material because countless others made an effort over the years to make it available for you to freely click and download.
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HI.. I did look though your list but I am not an expert on what is rare or not (if that has any meaning - anything available on the net really is not rare anymore). I did have a little nostalgia moment when I saw the Jellystone directories
Have you checked your list against atarimania? If you have software that they do not have then that is important.. Many of the disks in the list you provided are labeled things like "game1, game2, game3, game4, etc.." so it is hard to know what is on them. If there are major gaps in atarimanias software it is in the PD and the rarer magazine type-ins.. -
Bill and Akator:
Great points.. It will be interesting to see how this plays out when/if a few cases come out and are high profile.
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Ugh, the tired and misinformed spy camera thing again. Be sure to tape over all the cameras and microphones on your computers and mobile devices while you're at it, and be sure not to go out anywhere in public. While you're at it, just smash your mobile phone completely so you can't be tracked at all, and then cut up all your credit cards. Better yet, go live in a cabin in the woods with no electronics and no way for anyone to find you. That's about the only way you'll be free of all this supposed spying.
If there is a way it will eventually happen.. At some point we will see celebrities watching TV unaware that some game they installed on the xbox had a bug that allowed someone to get in and grab a kinect cache or something similar.
My laptops and cellphone already have apps installed that let me turn on the cameras remotely and see who is using them (or shut them down or track them in case they were stolen) for the phone a certain SMS message will trigger the app...
Recently a blog was posted of a man who's laptop was stolen who was collecting photos of the guy that stole it.. in his home, with friends, etc.. He had no idea his photo was being taken and plastered on the internet... I don't believe it is a stretch to turn the tables and have the owners the ones being spied on... I think it will happen in the next few years, one big hit for one celebrity and the copycats will come out in droves.
I don't personally worry about it - if someone got a naked picture of me and threatened to mail it to my mom unless I paid them 50 bucks I would just laugh. I could see that working against someone who the world actually would like to see naked.
To actually be on Topic: I have a 360 and in the previous generation I had the Xbox and PS2... I think I have played a total of about 15 hours on the 360 (most of that Kinect games). I think I'll sell of the 360 and skip this generation unless one of them gets a good VR system going.. I've not felt any excitement for consoles since the original xbox was released.
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Hi.. I personally don't have an issue with you doing whatever (yes I know, what a relief!
) I would hope you have done some sort of value add in putting the content together.. Minimally say some sort of web interface for browsing/searching the content. I would also suggest that maybe a flash drive would be a better distribution media since most machines support those. Also do you have any issues with that first person you send the files to turning around and giving it away at cost or making a torrent? -
I don't consider IBM PC and clones, nor Macintosh to ever have been affordable for others than business owners. By that time, most luck seekers had already been eliminated or at least didn't get much publicity so not so strange if you find the market corrected itself. Also, I realize that the selection of brands would be different for each region, check e.g. how the Japanese computer market looked like at the same time. You might not find a higher number of brands (unless you count every MSX manufacturer as their own brand) but you will find a different selection.
I don't know about that.. I bought a 386 clone in the late 80's though at the time I would have preferred an ST but could not afford it.. That and I was using Turbo Pascal in School (college) so it was a better fit. A lot of people were using PCs at work and buying something that was compatible for home.
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In the home/small business computer market it was consolidation, not a crash.. Though the consolidation was more to a standard than a brand. Many many companies making PC compatibles until years later when the market itself consolidated on the brand side.. Remember computer shopper with the 1000 page issues of 95% generic IBM PC compatibles and hundreds of companies making them.
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BYTE Vol 09-10 1984-09 Computer Graphics - 536 Pages 355,337,203 bytes
Looking at the features I am guessing there was a plan to do a theme on the floppy disk that was abandoned. Luckily they decided to publish these articles anyway in a features sections - they were very interesting reads..
Must read: The review on the Lilith personal computer.. This was a project by Niclaus Wirth (creator of Pascal and Modula 2) after he spent a sabbatical in Xerox Parc in the mid 70's. When he returned to Europe he began work from scratch on a widows/mouse based system which was built and used in the late 70's and early 80's and began selling to the public in 1984. Wirth spent another Sabatical at Xerox Parc in 1985 and did a complete redesign of his system shortly thereafter and the Oberon and Ceres computer systems were born.
FEATURES
INTRODUCTION
CIARCIA'S CIRCUIT CELLAR: BUILD THE AC POWER MONITOR
KAMAS: AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION
CLUSTER ANALYSIS
THE 65816 MICROPROCESSOR, PART 2: HARDWARE
THE FLOPPY DISK
COMPARING FLOPPY DISKS
THE THEORY OF DISK-ERROR CORRECTION
FLOPPY-DISK FORMATS
BIG PROJECTS ON SMALL MACHINES
THEME: GRAPHICS
INTRODUCTION
FRACTALS
LASER GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION
THE COMPUTER AS AN ARTISTIC TOOL
COMPUTER LANDSCAPES
EDITOR'S CHOICE
COLOR CONSIDERATIONS
REAL-TIME 3-D GRAPHICS FOR MICROCOMPUTERS
FROM PIXELS TO MICRODOTS
REVIEWS
INTRODUCTION
REVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK
THE LILITH PERSONAL COMPUTER
THE LEADING EDGE PERSONAL COMPUTER
THE MORROW MD-II
FIVE VOICE SYNTHESIZERS
VOLITION'S MODULA-2 ON THE SAGE
REVIEW FEEDBACK
KERNEL
INTRODUCTION
COMPUTING AT CHAOS MANOR: ON THE ROAD
CHAOS MANOR MAIL
BYTE WEST COAST: NEWS FROM ALL OVER
BYTE JAPAN: SHOW TIME
BYTE U.K.: THE SINCLAIR QL
EDITORIAL: MISSING SOFTWARE
MICROBYTES
LETTERS
FIXES AND UPDATES
WHAT'S NEW
ASK BYTE
CLUBS AND NEWSLETTERS
BOOK REVIEWS
EVENT QUEUE
BOOKS RECEIVED
PROGRAMMING INSIGHT
TECHNICAL FORUM
UNCLASSIFIED ADS
Download it here: http://www.strikequick.com/BYTE/BYTE Vol 09-10 1984-09 Computer Graphics.pdf
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