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  • Re: Announcement : Hi-Res Graphics and Animation Using Assembly Languag

    From magnusfalkirk@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 6 19:49:43 2022
    On Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 6:15:14 PM UTC-5, Wizard1969 wrote:
    A better and complete (no missing pages!) new scan of the rare Apple II programming book, Hi-Res Graphics and Animation Using Assembly Language, has been uploaded to archive.org


    https://tinyurl.com/2fnwn6rr


    Enjoy!
    Thank you for this. I did have a copy already but comparing the two, in just the first few pages, this copy is much better than the one I had.
    magnus

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  • From martindoherty377@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 13 10:23:00 2022
    On Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 7:15:14 PM UTC-4, Wizard1969 wrote:
    A better and complete (no missing pages!) new scan of the rare Apple II programming book, Hi-Res Graphics and Animation Using Assembly Language, has been uploaded to archive.org at https://tinyurl.com/2fnwn6rr

    NICE job, thank you! There is a book or two I'd like to put online as well but I'm ignorant of the process & equipment needed. Could I ask you to summarize your method? The lower tech, the better (for me).
    martin

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  • From scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us@21:1/5 to martin.doherty@undisclosed.com on Thu Jul 14 17:12:49 2022
    martin.doherty@undisclosed.com <martindoherty377@gmail.com> wrote:
    NICE job, thank you! There is a book or two I'd like to put online as
    well but I'm ignorant of the process & equipment needed. Could I ask you
    to summarize your method? The lower tech, the better (for me).

    I can't speak for the OP, but I can mention what I use to scan books:

    https://www.czur.com

    I bought an ET16 back when they were first introduced. It had some teething pains at first, but the latest firmware and software are pretty reliable
    now. I just received their newest model, the ET24 Pro, which delivers 50%
    more pixels (which I think will bring scans up to around 300 dpi), has some more flexible page-lighting options, and is supposed to now work with Linux. Both do some image processing to flatten pages; that bit works really well
    as long as the text doesn't get too close to the binding.

    Mine were both purchased through Indiegogo at a considerable savings. It
    looks like a few ET24 Pros are still available at the cheap rates:

    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/et24-pro-incomparable-professional-book-scanner/x/6497739#/

    The actual scanning process is pretty simple: click a button (or press a
    foot pedal) to image facing pages, turn the page, and repeat until done.
    The software aligns, crops, and flattens pages, and separates facing pages
    into two. It'll do OCR and save the result to a PDF with the text behind
    the scanned image.

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