ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 If you live near Boise and looked north towards the mountains at Bogus Basin this last weekend you may have seen a small cloud of smoke rising towards the sky. That smoke was the created from a bonfire made entirely of Atari 8-bit books. 13,730 pages of them to be exact... Sacrilege I know! Please know that a proper eulogy was performed and that they did not die in vane. Their essence has been captured for everyone of us to enjoy. To celebrate their life and give homage for their sacrifice all you have to do is download this torrent and they will be with us forever. The names of the dearly departed: 101 Atari Computer Tips & Tricks Assembly Language Programming for the Atari Computers Advanced Programming Techniques for you Atari Adventures with the Atari An Atari 8-bit Extra Atari BASIC Atari BASIC (2) Atari BASIC Learning by Using Atari BASIC XL Edition Atari Fun and Games Atari Programming with 55 Programs Atari Games & Recreations Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design Atari in Wonderland Atari Roots Atari Sound and Graphics Awesome Games for your Atari Computer BASIC Exercises for the Atari Computer Art and Animation Atari Logo Computer Playground Computers for People Computes First Book of Atari Computes First Book of Atari Graphics Computes Second Book of Atari Computes Second Book of Atari Graphics Computes Third Book of Atari Dr Wackos Guide to Creating Arcade Games Disk Guide Atari 400 and 800 FORTH on the Atari Learning bu Using Free Software for you ATARI Games Ataris Play Games for the Atari How to program Your Atari in 6502 Machine Language How to use Atari Computers I Speak BASIC to my Atari Inside Atari BASIC Inside Atari BASIC (2) Itty Bitty Bytes of Space Machine Language for Beginners Mapping the Atari Programming your Atari Computer Rainy Days Activities for the Atari The Analog Compendium That Atari 800XL: A Practical Guide The Atari Assembler The Atari BASIC Sourcebook The Atari Experience The Atari User's Encyclopedia The Best Atari Software The Creative Atari The Elementary Atari The Second Book of Machine Language The User's Guide to Atari Tricky Tutorials 1-6 Understanding Atari Graphics User's Handbook to the Atari 400/800 Computers Your Atari Computer And of course their tombstones: Note: This torrent is about 3.36 gigs and as it is streaming from my home line(about 100K out at best) it will be somewhat slow until some people finish and help seed. There is nothing I can do about this. Also I have some cool robots that require upload bandwidth that I want to play with on Saturday so I would really like some other seeders by then so I can drop off for a bit 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 0 seeds right now - lots of peers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 0 seeds right now - lots of peers Thanks for letting me know.. I see one seed and no peers.. checking it now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hi, amazing work as is usual for you! But somethin' happened as it's not there when you click or do a search on Pirate Bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hi, amazing work as is usual for you! But somethin' happened as it's not there when you click or do a search on Pirate Bay. I always seem to screw up the torrent up front.. but in my defense I always seem to do it in a different way. I think the tracker information was bad in the first one.. I edited the original message with the new URL now just waiting to see if peers appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I seem to have gotten the torrent from the origial post. I has been running now since 7:35 PM. Still no peers so I will download the newest.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 OK! This is working now.. If you are not seeing any seeds you need to go back up to the top of the thread and try again as I edited the original with the new url... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 OK redownloaded and now have seeders and peers...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Downloading and if it completes, I will seed as long as I can, which likely will be all weekend, maybe longer. Thanks for this... there's some books in there I've never seen, and I have a huge collection of books (real). You always provide great services to this community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Echo Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) wohoo 64kb!! you know... i probably just could add the download to my company website. Edited April 15, 2010 by gfgarcia91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Jefferson Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 leeching... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Echo Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 getting a smoking 8kb now. At this rate it shows completion at 64 hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 anyone willing to burn this to a DVD? obviously I'll pay for media, postage and time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Echo Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 anyone willing to burn this to a DVD? obviously I'll pay for media, postage and time Ill do it if it ever finishes.... Its like xmodem protocol atm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 anyone willing to burn this to a DVD? obviously I'll pay for media, postage and time Ill do it if it ever finishes.... Its like xmodem protocol atm You are at 2.2% whats the problem? See the true joy I get out of this is watching the suffering by dangling the carrot far enough away to cause pain... Hmm... I would expect the pace to pickup somewhat after midnight (mountain time) when my punishment from the cable company ends. Who knows you could be at 25% by morning! As far as sending DVDs... I did make a prettied-up set for these similar to the others I've done.. I am really late on doing the SoftSides though so I wanted to go back and get them first before seeing if anyone wanted a DVD set for the books.. Also I am planning on making a nice navigatable (simple HTML) bluray that will have everything for Atari I've scanned (much more than the sets I have put up here). Anyway I am talking in circles but if someone wants a plain DVD copy send me a line and I'll do it for $3.50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syfo-Dyas Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Now this is something I've been waiting for, thankx!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 CAREFUL WITH THIS - I JUST TRIED THE LINK AND NOW HAVE A LOAD OF WINDOWS SECURITY ALERTS - RE ADMESS.TROJAN JOY [edit] this may be some popup scam - searching I found this... Admess.Trojan description If your screen is occupied by pop-ups telling you to remove Admess.Trojan, you shouldn’t worry about the trojan. Admess.Trojan is only reported by fake security programs like System Security. It supposedly detects threats in order to intimidate people into buying a full version of the tool. SystemSecurity is not worth a dime since it’s fraudulent and it doesn’t work properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Thumpnugget...perhaps you can have a word with Al and put it as a permanent download on AA (but not as a torrent, as a proper zip/rar file so that people can download without waiting) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm at 18.33% and it's dl'ing a little bit here and there quite slowly. But about 99% of what is left is marked as unavailable. I know this could mean nothing, as it could come back at any time. Hoping it will... the first 18% went reasonably quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted April 15, 2010 Author Share Posted April 15, 2010 I'm at 18.33% and it's dl'ing a little bit here and there quite slowly. But about 99% of what is left is marked as unavailable. I know this could mean nothing, as it could come back at any time. Hoping it will... the first 18% went reasonably quickly. It means that an update applied to my computer and decided to boot my machine (thanks microsoft!) a few hours ago so there has been no seed. I thought that would only happen on the first Tuesday of the month but what do I know? Up and running again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Ah, gotcha... yeah, you're right, it's coming down again. And I'm uploading at 60-120k/second too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1k Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 yes! perfect! but it's very slow download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) Cool - thanks for posting. I'll join the torrent once I get home from work. Since I have FIOS, we'll see if I can bump up the download speeds for you guys once I get some data... Edited April 15, 2010 by Havok69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 CAREFUL WITH THIS - I JUST TRIED THE LINK AND NOW HAVE A LOAD OF WINDOWS SECURITY ALERTS - RE ADMESS.TROJAN JOY [edit] this may be some popup scam - searching I found this... Admess.Trojan description If your screen is occupied by pop-ups telling you to remove Admess.Trojan, you shouldn’t worry about the trojan. Admess.Trojan is only reported by fake security programs like System Security. It supposedly detects threats in order to intimidate people into buying a full version of the tool. SystemSecurity is not worth a dime since it’s fraudulent and it doesn’t work properly. Ugh - I remember this happening last year. I don't go to any torrent sites unless I'm booted into Ubuntu and now I don't have that problem anymore. That crap installed fake security software (ITSELF, mind you!) and changed my desktop background and was attempting to extort money from me to "remove" it. Fortunately, I had [Norton] Ghost and I "Ghosted" back to the last save. I set up dual-boot Ubuntu and now I only go into Windows when I need particular software, almost never browse with it. I **NEVER** go to any torrent sites (even Pirate Bay) now with Windows. Over-reaction? Perhaps. But then again, Ubuntu was FREE and you can go to places a lot "filthier" than Pirate Bay without a care in the world. Sorry to get off-topic but I probably had this same feeling he did and this was the cure (for me). [More expensive solution= "buy a Mac!!"] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatta Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 (edited) If you can't use Linux(Ubuntu) at least use Firefox with No-script. But Ubuntu will run Atari800 just fine, so why not? BTW, thanks! Edited April 15, 2010 by Hatta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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