Mot Posted January 26, 2004 Share Posted January 26, 2004 The only thing I removed was the “Typed in by…” stuff but in the future I will leave that in too or I can put this stuff back. I was just thinking after fixing my 4th (about the same) warranty information, that why would I want to see this when I will probably just want to know how to play the game and that is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschell Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 The CC2 can display the standard ASCII character set. Chad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvigor Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 FREE POKEY CHIP FOR YOU? I am placing an order with Best Electronics today to get the Pokey chip I need to install in my CC2 when I receive it. I'm going to order one or more extra Pokeys, and I am making a FREE POKEY CHIP OFFER. I will send a free Pokey chip to the person who volunteers and completes the 40-column text conversion of instruction manuals beginning with the letters R through T (R, S and T). Keep in mind this is 150 to 200 conversions, but you won't have to search any more for your Pokey. Maybe that'll be worth it to someone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 heh, let's not all race to volunteer first now.. I'd love to offer up that much to the cause but in all honesty I'm struggling to find the time to complete what I've already said I'd do. :/ Hopefully by this weekend.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 I am halfway though the A letter of manuals .. 3D Tic Tac Toe turned out nicely. Q: The ASCII representation of the game variation matrix (like on the back of Combat and Air Sea Battle manuals) is beyond reason to recreate in 40 columns. Shall we nix these? Or just leave them in their warped mess? BTW: I am doing my manual conversions on my HP200LX palmtop in Memo mode set to 40 columns and displaying control characters! Also I wonder if anyone is encountering TAB characters. Those should be deleted and replaced with the appropriate number of SPACE characters. Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvigor Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I came upon a game select matrix that could not be squashed down to 40 character width. In the manual I was working on I was able to make a copy of the whole text matrix and then go back and remove half from each of the copies. Basically I split the long matrix into two shorter ones that show half of the game choices. Maybe in some cases it would be best to just use words to describe the choices for the different game options, but for some games like Space Invaders or Maze Craze the whole reason to have the instructions at all is so you can select fun game variations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 On the reformat page: MANUALS THAT ATARIAGE NEEDS TRANSCRIBED. I looked here at AA and I didn't find the first two. Is there a scan of these manuals available? I guess CC2 does not do the sound for the 2 KidVid games. This would have been nice but it is only two games. Of cource you can make a face KidVid with http://www.chez.com/slydc/kvcable.htm And just down load the sound on to a tape.[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mot Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 This project seems to have died? Are we still working on it? I sent my re-formatted manuals but still says "NO" on the list. anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvigor Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I have neglected to update the list for quite some time. I will make it current Tuesday at work, where I have the project files stored. We didn't get all of them done, by far, but it'll be a decent start. Maybe there will be more interest after the CC2 is shipping. I'll get the status page updated and a file off to Al some time Tuesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted March 11, 2004 Author Share Posted March 11, 2004 I finally finished the "A" manuals .. so I will send them over soon. Time to move over to another letter ... maybe "F". Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 It doesn't look like the list has been updated recently. It doesn't include the U manual that I did either. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvigor Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 Okay, the thing is now updated! I have received everything that people volunteered except Rob's "A" list that he says is finished and the 2600 half of Justin's "C" list. The project status page contains a link to the ZIP file.[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Okay, the thing is now updated! I have received everything that people volunteered except Rob's "A" list that he says is finished and the 2600 half of Justin's "C" list. The project status page contains a link to the ZIP file. Thanks, I just snagged it. Hmm, it looks like the BMX Airmaster manual is corrupted. Any chance we can get it reuploaded? Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 ooops.. sheesh,totally forgot about this. I'll see if I can bang the rest out over the weekend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanglyman Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 You guys(girls?) who already have your CC2's do you think this project is worth completing, or can you read the text as is pretty good? I'm still waiting for my CC2 I just squeaked in and paid on the last day by paypal so I think I'm at the very bottom of the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 It would be nice to have them all converted, but it's not critical. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cschell Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 I'd like to see them all converted. Of course, that's easy for me to say as I'm unlikely to actually convert any myself in the near future. Chad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 OK, to get this thing rolling again I volunteer to do the letter "R". Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 OK, here are the manuals for the letter "R". Rob, can you post your letter "A" manuals to this thread, they don't seem to have been included in the original zip file. Mitch cc2_manual_letter_r.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 There's only four in X, so I just now did 'em. Oh boy, X-Man. One bit of advice: if you use Linux or Mac OS X, make sure that the files have CR/LF line termination! The CC2 manuals displayer doesn't seem to like LF termination. If you get to the end of the file, it won't back up more than four or five lines. cc2_manuals_x.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Well, looks like lots of B files have CR-only line termination, which is even worse, since the line breaks don't show at all. It would probably be a real good idea to try your converted manuals on an actual CC2 before uploading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 OK, I fixed the problem with the "B" files. It looks like some of the "D" and "E" files have the same problem so I fixed those as well. I'm attaching a zip with all the manuals including the new and corrected ones. Look who typed in the manual for "The Earth Dies Screaming". Hmm... why does that name seem familar. Mitch cc2man40.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I noticed that "Escape From The Mindmaster" was a bit of a mess so I reformatted that one. mindmaster_manual.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viso Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I wanted more manuals for the 7800 games that I haven't played much, so I started formating manuals for the games that didn't yet have a 40 column manual. I need to redo from M to later in the alphabet. I also formatted a manual for Solaris. The HTML manual on Atari Age is messy, so I tried to fix that. Enjoy! (Or don't) moremanuals.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 There's five in Q. P.S. in that latest cc2man40, BMXAIR.TXT is actually an empty directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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