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    From big_boy_toddy@big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com (Todd Nathan) to comp.sys.apple2 on Friday, July 25, 2003 20:52:59
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    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?
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  • From Chris Morse@chris@cosmicwolf.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 00:12:03
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On 25 Jul 2003 20:52:59 -0700, big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com (Todd Nathan)
    wrote:

    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?

    I did the same thing with the book "6502 Games" by Rodnay Zaks.
    I used used a 4-megapixel digital camera (Nikon 5700).

    It was okay, but I just got a decent scanner hooked up and scanned the
    manual for the Apple II Super Serial Card. About 85 images at 1.1MB
    each.. at 300 dpi.

    I have a collection of other 6502 programming books and Apple II
    manuals in line for scanning too.

    Feel free to post any other links like those!

    // CHRIS

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  • From jwolf6589@jwolf6589@aol.comnospam (JWolf6589) to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 22:24:42
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    << " by Rodnay Zaks.
    I used used a 4-megapixel digital camera (Nikon 5700). >>


    Can that connect to your Apple II? They still have serial cameras.
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  • From Chris Morse@chris@cosmicwolf.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Saturday, July 26, 2003 21:11:29
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    On 26 Jul 2003 22:24:42 GMT, jwolf6589@aol.comnospam (JWolf6589)
    wrote:

    << " by Rodnay Zaks.
    I used used a 4-megapixel digital camera (Nikon 5700). >>


    Can that connect to your Apple II? They still have serial cameras.

    Well, no - It was easiest to use the Nikon camera with its 512MB CF
    card and then just plug the CF card into a USB CF reader on the PC and
    copy the files in. :P

    // CHRIS

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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 27, 2003 08:02:11
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    Todd Nathan wrote:

    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?

    After looking over the "library" (and its ludicrous prohibition for
    law enforcement people ;-), I am a little disappointed.

    On the one hand, making this information available in _any_
    form is helpful. On the other, this form--300-400KB photos
    of an opened book--is really cumbersome to use and store!

    I suppose it invites others to convert it to a more convenient
    form, but the ~150 dpi of the large images makes OCR a bit
    dodgey--unless performed by a human.

    It's a shame that it is so labor-intensive to convert a 175KB
    manual page into the 2.5KB of text that carries its information.

    I guess that we can expect to see many more "camera
    captures" of old printed material. It would be nice to have
    a simple way of processing it into captured text (plus the
    occasional graphic).

    Ah, well--I can dream... ;-)

    -michael

    Check out amazing quality 8-bit Apple sound on my
    Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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  • From Tim Haynes@timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 27, 2003 16:35:03
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    404 here.

    Tim

    "Todd Nathan" <big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:5dc2d27f.0307251952.45850a7c@posting.google.com...
    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?


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  • From Chris Morse@chris@cosmicwolf.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 27, 2003 15:35:44
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    On 27 Jul 2003 08:02:11 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

    I guess that we can expect to see many more "camera
    captures" of old printed material. It would be nice to have
    a simple way of processing it into captured text (plus the
    occasional graphic).

    Ah, well--I can dream... ;-)

    -michael

    True.. Though I would like to see flatbed scans rather than camera
    captures. I did a camera capture, but it really felt like it was a
    "poor mans scanner" even though the price of the camera was equivelant
    to 25 Epson Perfection 1250 scanners. That's what I recently got, and
    I'm scanning some of the manuals I have now.

    At 300 dpi and JPG compression, the images are still about 1.1MB for
    each page. The resolution is great, but that's still a lot of space.
    I'll keep the high-res scans but I'll probably resize them all to the
    smallest legible resolution (and use GIF , which will save a lot of
    space on top of that too.) As for OCR, that will take even more time
    than the scanning, so I think it'll not be done nearly as often. It
    will be a labor of love to both OCR it and then proof-read it for
    mistakes, etc.

    I've scanned the Apple II Super Serial Card Manual. Next I am
    scanning my complete collection of Ren & Stimpy comics (34 issues.)
    Then I will probably scan some of my Apple II library books:

    - ProDOS 8 Technical Reference [Apple]
    - Programming The 6502 [Sybex]
    - 6502 Applications [Sybex]
    - Apple II Basic Programming Reference Manual [Apple]
    - Basic Programming With ProDOS [Apple]
    - Apple II Assembly Language Excercises [Wiley]
    - Assembly Cookbook For The Apple II/IIe [Lancaster, SAMS]
    - Apple Machine Language [Inman, Reston]
    - Apple Graphics & Arcade Game Design [Stanton]
    - Apple II Assembly Language [Marvin L. De Jong]
    - Apple Assembly Language [W. Douglas Maurer]
    - Assembly Language Programming For The Apple II [Mottola]
    - Apple II Users Guide For The Apple II+/IIe, 3rd Edition
    - Assembly Language For The Applesoft Programmer [Finley/Myers]
    - 6502 Software Design [Scanlon]
    - Beneath Apple DOS / Beneath Apple ProDOS / Bag Of Tricks
    - Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual [Apple]
    - Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual, 2nd Edition [Apple]
    - 6502 Assembly Language Programming, 2nd Edition [Leventhal]
    - 6502 Assembly Language Subroutines [Leventhal]
    - Nibble Express, Volumes 1 through 10
    - Apple Pascal 1.2 [full documentation]
    - other stuff I haven't dug out from boxes yet..

    What I'm trying to find is a copy of the latest Merlin Assembler
    documentation. On the Asimov FTP they have a disk with the docs, but
    strangely it's missing a chapter (I think it's chapter 8.) Also, a
    book called "6502 Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook" by Robert
    Findley.

    // CHRIS


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  • From Chris Morse@chris@cosmicwolf.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 27, 2003 15:36:11
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:35:03 GMT, "Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

    404 here.

    Tim

    "Todd Nathan" <big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com> wrote in message >news:5dc2d27f.0307251952.45850a7c@posting.google.com...
    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?


    It's back up - with MORE STUFF!

    // CHRIS

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  • From jim symolon@jsymolon01@SPAMattbiBAIT.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 28, 2003 10:13:17
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Guess what I've found, hidden in a box...

    The Assembler, micro-sparc. (with disks)
    Apple Games, Allen Wyatt
    Compute's Third Book of Apple
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    Remove SPAM BAIT from address to reply

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  • From salfter@salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, July 28, 2003 17:55:37
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    Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com> wrote:
    At 300 dpi and JPG compression, the images are still about 1.1MB for
    each page. The resolution is great, but that's still a lot of space.
    I'll keep the high-res scans but I'll probably resize them all to the >smallest legible resolution (and use GIF , which will save a lot of
    space on top of that too.)

    You should use PNG or (better still) TIFF...while GIF no longer has patent issues to deal with (the LZW patent expired last month), you'll get better compression with the other formats. TIFF also provides for marking the scan resolution within the file, so you can more easily get a 1:1 printout if you need it.

    _/_ Scott Alfter
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  • From Tim Haynes@timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 02:44:46
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    "Chris Morse" <chris@cosmicwolf.com> wrote in message news:0da8iv8eij4brbckmlbi8ck9g0bml0k1fu@4ax.com...
    On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:35:03 GMT, "Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

    404 here.

    Tim

    "Todd Nathan" <big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com> wrote in message >news:5dc2d27f.0307251952.45850a7c@posting.google.com...
    Look what I found online...

    http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/

    does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?


    It's back up - with MORE STUFF!

    // CHRIS

    Awesome!

    Thanks
    Tim


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