ThumpNugget Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Greetings people.. I am in the midst of cleaning out closets/attics/crawl spaces and I am reducing my collecting "footprint" - though I am still on the first of three closets and have even touched the attic/crawl space so it is going to be a long process Anyway there is a lot of loose and duplicate documentation that I want to dispose of.. I am going to scan it before chucking it and as I do this I am going to post the PDFs in this thread.. Hopefully those that archive these things will grab them and insert them into the appropriate locations. I am sure much of it is useless or has already been scanned but I am not going to make any judgements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 Juggles Rainbow - Game Documentation - 4,435,766 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) SSI Fall 85/Winter 86 Catalog - 6,822,165 bytes Edited May 1, 2011 by ThumpNugget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Atari BASIC Reference Guide- 4,103,920 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Star Raiders - Game Documentation - 6,323,214 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Awesome! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmmhooper Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Wow, thanks! I just got the garage cleaned out and got out my old Atari 400 last night to show my son. Fired up Star Raiders and it all worked after 30 some years. Well The controls came back to me but I could not remember how to get more energy. This star Raiders manual will be invaluable now. Thanks for the effort!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Atari 130XE Owners Manual - 31,519,722 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) Defender - Game Documentation - 3,082,365 bytes Memory Manor - Game Documentation - 1,173,915 bytes Pole Position - Game Documentation - 1,681,520 bytes Edited May 1, 2011 by ThumpNugget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Microprose Catalog - 6,202,227 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Introduction to DOS 3 - 10,184,407 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 from Keyboard Magazine from Aug. 86 (the Jean-Michel Jarre issue) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardLikesScans Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Fantastic!!! Thanks! I really like the Star Raiders manual, that era had some wonderful artwork! Good to see you didn't skimp on resulution, either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Hey ThumpNugget. Thanks for taking the time to do these. I'm enjoying the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) ET - Game Documentation -2,832,312 bytes Sky Writer - Game Documentation - 2,337,219 bytes Missle Command - Game Documentation - 7,194,523 bytes SSI Catalog Summer 1986 - 6,572,890 bytes Edited May 1, 2011 by ThumpNugget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardLikesScans Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Missile Command, again, has that beautiful old artwork... I extracted the JPG's, and the front page makes for a great desktop wallpaper!! Again, great resolution at 2500x3300! BTW for scan-fans: Have you seen the new Page 6 magazine collection (scans) over at AtariMania? Looking forward to any more stuff you might have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpicyChronos Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Awesome work ThumpNugget! As always your scans are top notch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Thanks again, Thumpnugget. As someone else mentioned, the scan quality is EXCELLENT. I mean, it's the best I've ever seen. (ever!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 BTW for scan-fans: Have you seen the new Page 6 magazine collection (scans) over at AtariMania? Thanks for the heads up, I never saw issues 76-85 and now I can finally read them, AWESOME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Amazing work - I would hate to be a scanner in your house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarimania Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Thanks a lot. Scans added on Atarimania :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Zorro - Game Documentation - 1,148,196 bytes Atari Touch Tablet Owners Guide - 7,234,512 bytes Ultima 1 - Game Documentation - 2,566,828 bytes Kampfgruppe - 21,545,137 bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Holy! A BIG thanks! The StarRaider scan is F-UNREAL (!!!) The quality, the color saturation, the blacks, the detail, you name it... I went like WoOoOoW... May I ask: which scanner did you use? Truly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Thank you for the comments everyone.. I think I made it through most of my first carton this weekend, just a few more to post from it.. Lots more coming as I go through the rest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Holy! A BIG thanks! The StarRaider scan is F-UNREAL (!!!) The quality, the color saturation, the blacks, the detail, you name it... I went like WoOoOoW... May I ask: which scanner did you use? Truly appreciated. Thanks but don't be too impressed I ran it through a couple of small photoshop filters that I use on the BYTES to remove page bleed and it worked like magic on Star Raiders The scanner I use is a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510. This little guy has been a pleasure to use.. I've had the same scanner for the Antic, Analog, STart, Atari Comics, SoftSides, Atari Books, and BYTE scans and it still only rarely gives me a paper jam. I was getting some quirky noises a couple of months ago but after a deep clean they all went away and its working like a champ again. I scan everything at 300 DPI with compression set to as low as possible (almost zero) to PDF. The PDFs are then split into TIFF files and i run them through a couple of small photoshop filters based on if the are color and greyscale (never black and white). The tiffs are reassembled with a mid-range compression setting and then the OCR is allowed to align the pages.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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