carmel_andrews Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Well done andrew....thankyou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yart Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I would love to see a book on this. I feel intimidated by having to scour around links and find bits and pieces. I find a book lays everything out in a logical order best suited to learning everything from the ground up. I'd buy one. Definitely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I'm going through the steps right now on Lulu with the last version of the .doc file that was posted here. Curious to see how crappy it comes out without any real "fixing." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/atari-2600-programming-for-newbies/10211870 I'm going to take an editing pass on it, lots of things are stupid. I didn't put in page numbers, for instance. I'm also going to have to fix a lot of margin errors. Does anyone know if http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=85135 is the newest version from Andrew's text files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Ok, ordered a copy. It was $11.71 with shipping. I set the price to the lowest possible so there's no profit. Gonna make an editing pass and clean it up right nice and then make another post here. I'll also update when the proof copy shows up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 is lulu good as cafepress? I know cafepress don't publish color pages in books,does lulu. and how much is it t sign up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Dan, it's free to sign up. They do let you do color, but as far as I can tell you have to go all color or all b/w for an entire book. I've got a couple books at our office that we printed with lulu and the quality is *very* high. You can do hardcover if you like, I'm going for just a regular 'softcover textbook' feel with the work I'm doing. The best technical books out there are O'Reilly in my opinion, so I'm aping their style and layout as much as possible. Working on a new "beta" version tonight, I'll let you guys know when it's up. The last one was 6x9 which is more of a trade paper "fiction" layout, I'm doing the next revision at 7.4x9.6 which is more like a paperback textbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Dan, it's free to sign up. They do let you do color, but as far as I can tell you have to go all color or all b/w for an entire book. I've got a couple books at our office that we printed with lulu and the quality is *very* high. You can do hardcover if you like, I'm going for just a regular 'softcover textbook' feel with the work I'm doing. The best technical books out there are O'Reilly in my opinion, so I'm aping their style and layout as much as possible. Working on a new "beta" version tonight, I'll let you guys know when it's up. The last one was 6x9 which is more of a trade paper "fiction" layout, I'm doing the next revision at 7.4x9.6 which is more like a paperback textbook. thanks for the information, Isaw that they do color books and figured maybe that would be good for the Jagfest book I'm working on. (I saw that they E-books might be using that for my new zine I'm planning to do) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Sweet! I would love to have a set of about 10 color pages as an inset in the middle of the book. A set of "color plates" on glossy in an otherwise regular 40# book. Good luck with your project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 I haven't forgotten, just waiting on the proof copy to get here before I make some changes and re-upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntaxerror999 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 *click *hum I smell a hitchhikers reference... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntaxerror999 Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I haven't forgotten, just waiting on the proof copy to get here before I make some changes and re-upload. any update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjaukifa Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 I'm curious for an update as well, I would love to get this text in a box I can set in front of me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfaulken Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Heh, wow. Real life happened and I haven't gotten back to it. I did get the copy back from them, it's really good quality. It's immediately obvious that I'll need to do a lot more formatting and content changing, though. I'll see what I can get done this weekend and update you guys again. Excited that there's interest! - John 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAMAMRA Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 any more news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abaudrand Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 same as above: any news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Yep. I stumbled on the lulu link and much to my surprise saw a book available with my name as the author! How could I resist buying a copy? It arrived a couple of days ago. Firstly, the binding and printing is exceptionally nice. It's a real book, done as well as I could have wished. As to the content; well that obviously needs a bit of work It's really just a bound copy of the tutorials, with a little editing. There are issues with the pictures bing the wrong orientation (cut off on the edge of the page) and a lot of repeats of the text (my fault!). But, you know, it's very readable -- MUCH more so than reading on the tutorial/forum pages. I'm almost tempted to work on it more, and make it a really top notich coherent "book" rather than compilation of tutorials. But, having said that -- it is what it is, and as far as that goes it's cheap, well printed, and an excellent way to have all those tutorials in the one place. I can't believe I wrote enough to fill an actual book book. It's well worth the money, IMHO. Cheers A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abaudrand Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) Be sure Ill buy it. Lulu is well known in france for the quality of its service. Im old school too and can't work a tutorial without a printed page Edited May 29, 2012 by abaudrand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I'll get one after my Boulder Dash arrives. Who knows, maybe this book is one of the free extras that's coming with the cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatefulGravey Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 This is something I have put more and more thought into learning about. I don't know how far I'll go with it, but I have done some programming in the past and would like to know enough about programming for the 2600 not to be lost when people are talking about it. Has anything been done with this since the last link to Lulu? Is that book on Lulu the same stuff as the PDF files linked in this thread? I have been reading that some, but would like to have it printed and bound if that is out there. I guess I'm asking for one post with the updates in it. It is a bit of a challenge to keep up with what is the most recent update through this thread. If anyone could help out I would love to alteast read about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 From a newbies point of view, the sessions are informative but not instructive. I'd prefer to be guided through what tools to download and how to install them. Then each chapter could give me a project (or part of a bigger project) to work through as the text explains concepts that are needed. Basically, in order to buy into a book I'd have to feel *I* accomplished something each session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abaudrand Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 From a newbies point of view, the sessions are informative but not instructive. I'd prefer to be guided through what tools to download and how to install them. Then each chapter could give me a project (or part of a bigger project) to work through as the text explains concepts that are needed. Basically, in order to buy into a book I'd have to feel *I* accomplished something each session. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calabro2600 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 This would be an excellent idea, could be used in tech classes in school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2586 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 I'd buy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufflehound Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Any updates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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