+Allan Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I thought I would start a thread and keep them all together about additions to Atarimania.com in order to draw more attention to archiving. Hopefully I can keep updating. I'm not to good at that part. Yesterday I added finished scanning a revised June, 1983 manual for OSS OS/+ DOS. http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-os-a_19212.html The link to the actual PDF is under the link to the older version of the PDF manual. Today I'm working on one of the APX catalogs. There are some already on Atarimania but they are in single page links in jpg form. It's nice having the PDF version of course so you can look at them easier with tablets, phones, etc. Allan 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 I got some of the APX catalogs done. Here's some PDFs of them. They have some decent info in them. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogWinter1983 https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSpring1983 https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSummer1983 https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogFall1983 I have four more to do. Missing the first three. Hope to track these down one day. Just a warning. These are large because I had to do them in color in a decent resolution. The ones on Archive.org already are really poor due to low resolution. Allan 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R4ngerM4n Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Nice work Allan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Thanks! Great work. Never got those in Europe, so it's nice to see what was offered by APX, especially after the various APX related interviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 I scanned the manuals to Epidemic!, but it's too big to upload to Atarimania. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Take the time to read them. Some of them have articles about the authors as well as other info. Looking forward to finishing the other three I have which are quite big. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 I scanned the manuals to Epidemic!, but it's too big to upload to Atarimania. Hey Bryan, Can we reduce the size of it? How big is it? If it's too big to send by email, could you load it up on Atarimania's FTP section. Then I could download it and see if I can reduce it without effecting the quality to much. By the way, I think your PM box is full. I couldn't send you one. I wanted to ask you about something in private. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodByteXL Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Can we reduce the size of it? How big is it? If it's too big to send by email, could you load it up on Atarimania's FTP section. Then I could download it and see if I can reduce it without effecting the quality to much. All depends on the used software. Many of the books, manuals, magazines, etc. floating around are scanned in good or best graphical quality (300 or 600dpi), but lack then the use of the right tools. Mostly the JPG size gets squeezed to death and the outcome isn't that nice in reading quality (blurry) and often less good in OCR results. The final results are mega big pdf though. My experience: generate high detailed, optimized uncompressed pictures (bmp, png, psd, etc. without shades, notes, lines,...) and use professional software to stick it together in one pdf, then use the internal routines of that software to squeeze out the graphical parts of the characters. Every sharp recognizable character of a registered font will disappear from the picture leaving a blank page keeping nothing on the picture level if working perfect. The text will be "typed" on the text level requiring much less space in the pdf. Look at it e.g. from InDesign or Illustrator to get the issue. Most bundled scanner software for SOHO is not capable of doing that. Example: A snippet from a book once posted on AA in 300% to point out the blurry stuff causing exactly that. And even that book could be downsized by ca. 50% (60.9 MiB vs. 130MiB) without reducing the already bad quality any further. If working absolutely perfect, one might transfer a 300 pages book to a 10 MiB or less big pdf. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Just uploaded to www.archive.org the APX Product Catalog for Summer 1982. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSummer1982 Warning! This one is 150 Meg. It's 80 pages of color at 300 DPI. Allan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodByteXL Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Just uploaded to www.archive.org the APX Product Catalog for Summer 1982. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSummer1982 Warning! This one is 150 Meg. It's 80 pages of color at 300 DPI. Allan This is quality ! Took 1 hr to dl it, but was worth to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Hey Bryan, Can we reduce the size of it? How big is it? If it's too big to send by email, could you load it up on Atarimania's FTP section. Then I could download it and see if I can reduce it without effecting the quality to much. By the way, I think your PM box is full. I couldn't send you one. I wanted to ask you about something in private. Allan My subscription had expired so I was way over quota. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Beware the dancing bear. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogFall1982 Enjoy. Three more to go. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 By the way, there is a new Atari pamphlet up on Atarimania. It has a nice picture of Atari 400 being massed produced. It's on the front page. www.atarimania.com Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Good thread idea Allan. I should have a Warriors of Ras - Kaiv manual for upload in a week or two along with a couple of other scans. Thanks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 Here's another APX manual: https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSpring1982 Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 Warning: This is almost 200 MEG. It's in full color and was APX's biggest catalog. One more to go of the ones I have. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogWinter19821983 Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 Here's the last APX catalog that I have. https://archive.org/details/APXCatalogSummer1982_201412 Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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