Scan: Electronic Projects for your Commodore 64 and 128

Mark Smith · October 20, 2008, 06:23 PM

I've started scanning in that book I promised .. ooh ages ago! :-)

Where's the best place to upload the pages ? As a teaser I've included the front cover and contents pages here.

Only 160 more pages to go! ho hum!

Regards

Mark

airship · October 21, 2008, 12:29 AM

You've got to love an electronic projects book that has a section titled "Orwellian Mind Control" !

BTW, the scan will be much appreciated. This book is, of course, on my 'wish list', but the only copy currently for sale is listed at $50. A bit too rich, methinks, right now. I'll wait until the recession has the seller's babies on the brink of starvation, then I'll make him a lowball offer.

Douglas · November 10, 2008, 05:42 AM

I checked this book out years ago from my local Library, but didn't have the technical ability to complete the projects (I was pretty young). If I remember correctly, though, the projects were fairly straight forward and I wouldn't have any problem with them now. I'm sure that the components that are referenced within the text could be modified to current ones that are readily available.

I am eager to read this text when it becomes available!

Douglas

darkatx · December 04, 2008, 02:55 PM

I remember the original post while lurking the net for this book many moons ago...guess what? I'm gonna find a copy somewhere in the many libraries of the Great White North here and see if they can 'lend' me the few surviving copies they have...from my understading there's only 3 copies left in the entire library system..one in BC, another in Quebec and the final one in Ontario!!!

I really misss this book and managed to have made a few photocopies of the digitizer - lost a few papers along the way

If I can lay my hands on a copy - I'll scan the entire thing myself and pass it along...it's just a fun book to read let alone try out some stuff. I remember trying to find an 8 bit chip back in 94 or so and no dice

darkatx · December 04, 2008, 03:56 PM

airship · December 05, 2008, 02:33 AM

Hey, every little bit helps the war effort! Thanks!

Golan Klinger · December 05, 2008, 07:40 AM

Nice to see you here, darkatx. You going to make it to World of Commodore this year? It's looking like we're going to break 100 attendees again this year!

darkatx · December 05, 2008, 09:15 PM

I have 2 major regrets - not being able to see the TPUG guys since 2004 and missing out on meeting Jim Butterfield at the following shows.
I work weekends man

But that's a great link you posted there especially the ide64 piece and demo - awesome!
It's great to see Lief still doing stuff on the breadbox though...

100 people for the show - that's awesome man!

Andrew Wiskow · December 06, 2008, 12:44 AM

Quote from: darkatx on December 05, 2008, 09:15 PMI work weekends man

I know the feeling... I've missed out on several retrocomputing events for the same reason.

Golan Klinger · December 08, 2008, 10:31 AM

It's a shame you weren't able to make it because it was a blast. The downside is that I'm totally knackered after staying up until 4am hacking, talking, joking and drinking for two nights in a row. It gets harder ever year...

darkatx · December 09, 2008, 04:17 AM

Yeah, I was bummed out thinking about missing a great time and all but what can ya do?
Actually, I've already went to my local library and have put in motion for them to find me the book...as well as three other non-related art books. The wait can be several weeks long it seems so lets cross our fingers and hope for the best.

If I don't hear anything from them in a few weeks I'll go to the library next town over and try that one...lol...I think I might just try them tomorrow and see which one gets to it first

darkatx · January 10, 2009, 07:20 AM

I got my hands on a copy - the library called and told me it was in so I'm picking it up tonight...Yee-Haw!

RobertB · January 10, 2009, 10:49 AM

Quote from: darkatx on January 10, 2009, 07:20 AMI got my hands on a copy - the library called...

How does that saying go? Victory goes to those who are patient. Or is it... The reward goes to those who are patient.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
Catch the Fatman and Circuit Girl on http://vimeo.com
(with Commodore content in the next show)

SmallCleverDinosaur · January 10, 2009, 08:18 PM

Quote from: darkatx on January 10, 2009, 07:20 AM
I got my hands on a copy - the library called and told me it was in so I'm picking it up tonight...Yee-Haw!

Is this the same book as the one you showed us some scans from in your post on december 4'th?

darkatx · January 11, 2009, 09:05 AM

Man, this book is sweet - I might even put in an offer to buy the thing off the windsor library seeing as its hardly taken out.

Ummm, I'm totally unsure what's the best format to post this up as...I could try to put it altogether as a PDF or combined zip file of scanned jpgs. I could even try converting it to OCR if that's easier - just a little concerned of a few type-o's slipping in from the software especially for part & part numbers lists...

Hell, I'm even thinking of posting up a chapter at a time since its over 135 pages or so...I got til the end of the month to borrow this thing so it should definitely be posted by then.

SmallCleverDinosaur · January 11, 2009, 09:16 AM

Nice

That book must be over 20 years old. Amazing that you found it at the library. That gives me ideas about the libraries over here

The nicest format is always PDF which has been OCR'ed. That gives you readability, searchability and a small file. It's also of course the format that includes the most work, especially the OCR part.

If you need any help, please let me know

darkatx · January 14, 2009, 03:05 AM

I already have over 120 pages scanned - the book has nearly 180 total...just another couple of hours and the scanning should be complete.
My OCR sfotware is rather old but still does the job - I've already did the first 8 pages of the Forward and Contents pages - I'll try to get the fonts as close as I can and I plan to scan the basic code printouts in jpeg format to eliminate the chance of OCR type-O's. ALso all photos will be jpeg greyscale...still I can see this thing being a sizeable file when I get it into DOC, RTF & PDF formats.
I'll zip em up and post them sometime hopefully this week when I get this thing sorted.

SmallCleverDinosaur · January 14, 2009, 06:07 AM

Sounds like a great deal of work! We all appreciate your effort

It will be very interesting to see the complete book.

darkatx · January 22, 2009, 01:46 AM

Let me start by apologizing for not getting this done sooner...right now the entire book is scanned and OCR'ed...and with the small excpetion of the last 3 pages that isthe Index...its completely reformatted.
I foolishly tried to save it in RTF format forgetting about the picture limitation since my program can only exports to PDF - (doesn't import so I have no other option to save as I go except with html - should have tried DOC I guess but wordproecessing isn't my strong point)
I'll throw in the pictures and fixing them up and resizing them and put the index in a table and should have something to post up either tonight or tomorrow.
Let me say this, the book is about 20 years old but the information is still pretty ahead of its time.
At the very least, its an extremely good read full of novel of ideas.

Blacklord · January 22, 2009, 02:17 AM

HTM would b e nice too, then it can be placed online as a series of web pages.

airship · January 22, 2009, 04:22 AM

I want to build the "Orwellian Mind Control" device and take it in to work.

darkatx · January 22, 2009, 10:09 AM

Welp, here you go.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/10/16/1515663/EPC64128.pdf

Some of the scans are piss-poor due to my OCR software wanting 300 dpi...but it still should be legible for the code...things would have been smoother if people could abstain from writing on the pages themselves (spent hours cleaning up pages in Photoshop)

I could save it as an HTML but the page divisions would be obliterated in that format since I tried already to save a portion earlier but its filesize is tiny compared to the DOC and PDF versions I made.

SmallCleverDinosaur · January 22, 2009, 05:33 PM

Wow! This is awesome, must have taken you a lot of time to complete this! Thanks for your work!

airship · January 23, 2009, 04:04 AM

Am downloading right now. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I'm really looking forward to this book. It should be a lot of fun.

Mangelore · January 23, 2009, 09:57 PM

Great work! Many thanks for this book.

Scan: Electronic Projects for your Commodore 64 and 128

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