APX manuals

[+Allan]

A couple of more manuals I had scanned added since my first post.

 

Also to keep in mind APX did five revisions of their manuals but most programs did not have all the revisions done since some programs were discontinued and some were later releases. I have been trying to archive all versions.

 

 

Lemonade
Reversi
Character Set Editor
BlackJack Casino.   https://archive.org/details/blackjackcasinoversion2manualapx
Presidents of the United States.    https://archive.org/details/presidents-of-the-united-states-version-2-apx

 Isopleth Map-Making Package
Rabbotz
Utility Diskette II
Polycalc
Data Base/Report System
Word Search Generator
Real Estate Cash Flow Analysis.    https://archive.org/details/realestatecashflowanalysisapx
Diskmenu
Diggerbonk(have educational Software version, not APX) 
Home Loan Analysis
Dragon's Quest or a Twist in the Tail (this title is an Antic Software release and may not exist as an APX release. It was a very late release and is in the last APX catalog but it may not have 'gotten out the door.')

 

Thanks,   @Fierodoug5

And thanks @BillC for scanning the Deep Blue C manual.

[Fierodoug5]

Just updating the list of APX manuals we are still looking for as I was going through my files today. Alan has been hard at work as always! Thanx Alan!

Reversi
Character Set Editor

 Isopleth Map-Making Package
Rabbotz
Utility Diskette II
Polycalc
Data Base/Report System
Diskmenu
Diggerbonk(have educational Software version, not APX) 
Home Loan Analysis
Dragon's Quest or a Twist in the Tail (this title is an Antic Software release and may not exist as an APX release. It was a very late release and is in the last APX catalog but it may not have 'gotten out the door.')

[+Allan]

Thanks, @Fierodoug5.

 

Just to add, I have a third manual type version of Utility Diskette II on the way. I should have it loaded up in a couple of weeks.

 

[+Allan]

Here is Utility Diskette II.

 

https://archive.org/details/utility-diskette-ii-apx

 

Allan

 

[Kirkland]

On 3/10/2023 at 7:12 PM, Allan said:

Here is Utility Diskette II.

 

Allan

 

Allan - would you be willing to rescan a couple APX manual pages as 600dpi grayscale instead of bitmaps (assuming you have the originals).  Looking for:

 

Bootleg (V3) [APX_20218]_Page_10

Gridiron Glory (V3) [APX_20188]_Page_10 and Page_14

Moon Marauder (V3) [APX_20226]_Page_08

Eastern Front 1941 (V4) [APX_20050]_Page_13 (the map)

Frogmaster (V2) [APX_20131]_Page_03

Frogmaster (V2) [APX_20131]_Page_04

Melt-Down (V2) [APX_20178]_Page_05?  (map page- it's between 4 and 5 in the current pdf)

Snark Hunt (V2) [APX_20154]_Page_07 (the map)

Tact Trek (V2) [APX_20031]_Page_16? (Enterprise picture)

 

All of them should have pictures of some sort on them.

 

Kinda kicking around making an APX game manual book.

Going off the list at AtariArchives, it looks like Kay classified 81 titles as "Entertainment", of which five are missing scans (bah!).

Of the remaining 76 titles, after culling the review forms, warranty pages, blank pages, redundant front-cover pages and (unfortunately) the copyright pages, I've brought the page count down to a manageable 834 pages.  Using a coil binding and putting 2 pages sideways per 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, a standard color book looks to be about 420 pages which ballparks $38-$40.  I could do a full size version (original page size) in two $30 volumes of ~420 pages each, but I'm not sure what the audience for these is- it's niche at best.  Just kicking around the idea.  I've made a couple templates and done some quick resizing.

Not sure how serious I'm going to get with it, but I've already spent a stupid amount of time making some fonts for some reason a few months back.  I started with the existing Atari 825 printer fonts and increased the individual ink dot size on them character by character to make them look like they actually appear when printed, not as the original dot matrix sent to the printer.  Wayyy too many pages to retype, though- unless somebody already has?  Existing bitmap scans don't OCR for crap

 

 

___APX-V2-flat.tif ___APX-V3-flat.tif AtariAPX-Fonts.zip

Edited April 29 by Kirkland
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[khaibitgfx]

Fun with magazines...

 

 

 

Spoiler

Recreating the Atari content in Illustrator in the near future.

 

Edited April 29 by khaibitgfx

[khaibitgfx]

High res cover recreation, get out your color laser printer...

 

Available in Adobe Illustrator format for those who want it.

[mutterminder]

On 4/29/2024 at 9:55 AM, khaibitgfx said:

Fun with magazines...

I don't think the magazine would be that cheap if it came out.  I remember I installed this upgrade in my original 800XL back in the day.  I had no good way of getting or making a PCB at the time, so I just piggybacked all of the chips and ran point to point wiring.   It didn't look pretty, but it worked.

 

 

 

  Hide contents

Recreating the Atari content in Illustrator in the near future.

 

 

Edited May 11 by mutterminder

[khaibitgfx]

Did you kill any ram chips during the upgrade?