+Allan Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 I may have started one of these years ago and forgot about it, but I have scanned many Atari 8-bit manuals and put them on Archive.org and thought I would make a thread to draw more attention to them. Here are a couple I have done recently: Super Mailer Plus by Royal Software Proto's Graphics Machine by Educational Software Ace of Aces by Atari Gato by Atari The Darkness Rises by Rainbird Software On-Track by Gamestar Dawn of Civilization by Superware I will try to remember to add a post here when I add a new manual to Archive.org. 9 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
800XLNZ Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Thanks for all your efforts Allan, Archive.org is the way to go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 I got two more small manuals (with disks and some packaging) today and scanned both manuals and put them up on Archive.org. The disks will eventually be made into ATXs. Qwik Pix PC - A graphics convertor from Print Shop to Paperclip Hodge Podge by Artworx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 Here is new one. New York City by Synapse Software. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 On 11/6/2021 at 11:20 PM, Allan said: I may have started one of these years ago and forgot about it, but I have scanned many Atari 8-bit manuals and put them on Archive.org and thought I would make a thread to draw more attention to them. Here are a couple I have done recently: Super Mailer Plus by Royal Software Proto's Graphics Machine by Educational Software Ace of Aces by Atari Gato by Atari The Darkness Rises by Rainbird Software On-Track by Gamestar Dawn of Civilization by Superware I will try to remember to add a post here when I add a new manual to Archive.org. Thanks Allan. Is the software for Proto’s Graphics Machine in the preservation thread? I’ve had a physical copy of the manual for years but no software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 2 hours ago, spookt said: Thanks Allan. Is the software for Proto’s Graphics Machine in the preservation thread? I’ve had a physical copy of the manual for years but no software. Unfortunately I only got the manual with this collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Here is Summer Games. A big Thank You to @abbotkinneydude for the original scan. I have been trying to finish off the XEGS series of manuals for years now. This one is rare for some reason. Best Electronics had copies of these for years but for some reason you rarely see this one come up for sale. XEGS Summer Games 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 Here is another manual I just scanned. I only have the manual. No program. Manual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) Diskovery Reading Works- Time Zone Booklet might be a name for it.. they did a number of titles here's a write up that was in a publication about 'The Word Bird'.... from.... Diskovery Reading Works series from International Publishing and Software, a Canadian company. The bird pictured on the box of The Word Bird has a balloon filed with prepositions--on, in, beside, above--coming out of its mouth. It reminded us of our high school German teacher stalking around the room chanting "an auf, hinter, in neben, uber, unter..." Yes, Fraulein Behrens had one way of teaching prepositions, and it was effective, but times have changed. Children learning about preposition in English today have a far more pleasant vehicle. The Word Bird is a delightful program that "focuses on the relationships between objects in space and the way these are described in English." The disk includes three activities of increasing complexity which are chosen from the title screen by pressing the 1,2, or 3 key. All other action required of the player is executed either with the joystick or a strange set of keys. The keyboard control combination of left arrow (down), CTRL (left), 1 (up), and 2 (right), which did not correspond with the diagram in the documentation booklet, is one of the least logical we have seen, and we found that players had a much easier time with and preferred to use the joystick. After a short practice session in which you master the technique of moving a rectangular frame around on the screen and positioning it over a word to indicate a choice, you begin with Activity I which asks you to compare a sentence to a picture on the screen and tell whether the sentence is true or not. You may see a picture of a castle with a road leading up to it. As you watch, a snake moves across the screen and stops alongside the road. The sentence under the picture reads "The road is to the right of the snake." You use the joystick to move the frame over the word "yes" or "no" to indicate your answer. During play, the program selects randomly from a pool of five prepositions. When you have answered correctly with a given preposition three times, that word is removed from the pool and another is substituted. A total of 12 prepositions is drilled in Activity 1. The activity ends with a screen that reports the number of correct answers out of the number of attempts. The program then cycles back to the title screen to allow you to choose one of the other activities. In Activity 2, a picture is presented. Then an additional object floats across the screen, coming to rest near something in the picture. You read the sentence below and decide which of two or three prepositions when inserted into the sentence will make it correct. For example, you may see an outdoor scene with a bird peeking out of a mailbox. You must theh decide whether "inside" or "on top of" makes the sentence "The bird is the mailbox" describe the picture. You must get each preposition right five times in a row to advance in Activity 2. When you choose a correct answer in either of the first two activities, you hear a pleasant tune. A pencil then appears in the lower right corner of the screen and draws a red check mark. Finally, the message "That's right!" appears under the sentence. Incorrect responses evoke a "raspberry" sound, and the pencil draws an X. A sentence of explanation then appears on the screen. Activity 3 asks you to make your own sentences. A picture is presented along with a skeleton sentence containing three blanks. Beneath each of the blanks are two words or sets of words that can be used to complete the sentence. You choose one from each pair and watch as the scene ("The boat is on top of the bird," for example) is created on the screen. We found that the sillier the sentences. the more our playtesters enjoyed the game. Documentation The eight-page instruction booklet is a model of completeness. It begins by describing the rationable for learning the skills presented in the game: "Although our world is three-dimensional, we usually use only two dimensions to represen it...and to understand geometry, trigonometry, and geography, children must be able to recognize spatial relationships." The next section describes the use of the joystick and control keys, and instructions for loading the program to follow. Unfortunately, there is a typographical error in the loading instructions for the Commodore 64, so a strip of paper detailing the correct command is inserted in the package. Although it is a standard command, this is a bad sort of error to find in an instruction manual. The activites are described in a page and a half, followed by a page of suggestions for reinforcing the skills practiced in the activites--both with the computer and without. On the last page of the booklet we find a set of educational objectives that would satisfy any education professor. And we think that the program does an excellent job of satisfying those objectives Summary The Word Bird is a unique program that drills several valuable skills at once. It teaches spatial relationships while encouraging the young reader to read carefully (even our adult playes made errors when they overlooked the word "not" in some of the sentences or failed to concentrate on word order). The graphics are colorful and clever, and the vocabulary is varied enough to assure that children will not soon tire of it. Our only complaints concern the two typos (loading instructions and control keys) in the manual. These can be corrected easily, and we hope they will be in subsequent editions of the program. The Word Bird is a truly superb example of what educational software can be. We recommend it highly. Edited December 18, 2021 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 18 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: Diskovery- Time Zone Booklet might be a name for it.. It might be. Did you download it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Yes I did, for some reason AtariAge did not put up my full text, give it a read. It's more properly named and some other information about another title from them is listed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 22 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: Yes I did, for some reason AtariAge did not put up my full text, give it a read. It's more properly named and some other information about another title from them is listed Good. That was my goal. We can't trust one or two places to archive Atari stuff. They must be on many hard drives/storage devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 https://www.ebay.com/itm/255219315465 I think they did 4 or so titles... Alphabet Factory, Match UP, The Word Bird, Time Zone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 18, 2021 Author Share Posted December 18, 2021 I have had my eye on that one for a while. Sometimes I just wait on some and see if they come down on their price. Sometimes they are stubborn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 or best offer... I make offers now, even when they don't list it... just pm and go from there. some people put OBO and won't come down a penny... it's a weird world... others just want to be done with the auction antics and are like, here dude just get this out of my hands I want it gone.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 I just uploaded a manual of an early graphics package by Sebree's Computing. 3-Dimensional Computer Graphics Package 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 Here are a few disk images, packages and disk scans from Xlent Software of pictures and icons. I could not copy picture disk #1. https://archive.org/details/picture-disks-brabson-xlent-software https://archive.org/details/icons-bradson-xlent-software Icon_disk_1_Xlent_Software.atr Icon_disk_2_Xlent_Software.atr Icon_disk_3_Xlent_Software.atr Picture_disk_2_Xlent_Software.atr Picture_disk_3_Xlent_Software.atr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 23 hours ago, Allan said: 3-Dimensional Computer Graphics Package Thanks! Is page 35 supposed to look that way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 15 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: Thanks! Is page 35 supposed to look that way? Yes. It's suppose to be the same width just shorter. If you download the PDF it looks like it suppose to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 Here is another manual version of Solo Flight. Solo Flight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 Here is a manual for Avalon Hill's Computer Facts In Five. It also includes a scan of the score pad that was included with the game. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-computer-facts-in-five_1291.html Computer Facts in Five 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Just uploaded Broderbund's The Serpent's Star manual. The Serpent's Star. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 12, 2022 Author Share Posted February 12, 2022 Here are some more manuals/magazines I scanned. The Tele-com manual was scanned by @Farb Magic Melody Box by APX Tele-com by Roklan Advanced Musicsystem II by Lotsabytes 50 Mission Crush by SSI Compute's Best of Atari Special Issue 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 8, 2022 Author Share Posted May 8, 2022 Here are some more Atari 8-bit manuals I have archived since February. Epyx Starfire and Fire One Hesware's Gridrunner Sega's Tapper Plus I've scanned some more Computer Shopper Atari articles in the same place. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share Posted June 24, 2022 Some of my latest scans: Tricky Tutorials #1: Display Lists Synapse's Encounter Three File Fax manuals K Power's Logo Fun book 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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