I have pdf versions of Macworld Mac Secrets 4th Ed. and 5th Ed., as well as The Macintosh Bible 6th Edition. Where and how should I upload these? Apps? Guides?
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2009, July 17 - 4:57pm
#1
Where to upload books in pdf format?
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2009, July 18 - 4:02am
#2
I say Guides.
2009, July 18 - 6:49pm
#3
I don't see how to do it as a guide though. The "add guide" page doesn't allow for file uploads. My first instinct was just to upload as an app. Very handy info in those books, and they're clearly not game files.
2009, July 18 - 7:09pm
#4
Either another section, "books" or "guides", but talking "guides", the Guides section could hold a section of guides in pdf form, I think.
2009, July 18 - 9:44pm
#5
We should try to anticipate what else might be down the road. Maybe pdf scans of old magazines, etc. If you build it, they will come. I've actually got a pdf of the first few "Inside the Macintosh" books somewhere, too. Someone was nice enough to digitize them and post them online for download, though I can't remember where.
2009, July 19 - 4:19am
#6
Great suggestion Attila. Macintosh Garden could also be a repository of knowledge and Mac culture in general.
2009, July 20 - 4:32pm
#7
The more I think about it, the more I think there could be a "Docs" section, like "Games" and "Apps." Of course I don't know about space or maintenance, but there are many PDF files and HyperCard stacks out there. I've collected a fair number of mac-related info myself. Some are actual doc files, and some are apps with only one purpose: to display their info. Like the "Apple Spec Database" or "GURU."
2009, July 20 - 5:46pm
#8
Of course it opens up a whole can of worms if the site starts to allow documents unrelated to a particular app (or one that's uploaded at that time).
Like you have highlighted, these won't just be readable PDF documents, but application documents, ie HyperCard stacks, quicktime videos, podcasts, photos, icon sets, etc, etc.
I have a very old long list of hack details, involving the use of Fedit and ResEsit, changing the resource and data forks of old games and apps, to perform tricks, removing copy protection, adding more lives, etc. I've been putting off going through the list, updating details of the games here where the hack may be of some use, and what do I do with the hacks for games that are not yet loaded here ? Would be good to just upload the 96K of plain text to a Docs area, but it may be lost in a sea of dross.
Just to complicate things, I've tried uploading multiple manuals for some games, ie. a quick start guide and the full manual, or the manual and a Mac specific guide,, and a strategy guide. I seem to be able to upload, but only the first item is available for download on the games page - other "manuals" are accessible if you make to edit the page.
2009, July 20 - 9:42pm
#9
This whole site is an open can of worms! Just depends on whether the site can be designed restrictively enough or whether moderators/administrators are able to spend the time to keep up on it. Maybe the "Docs" section could be limited to just things with pdf or hypercard formats to start with. In any case, I'd really like to see something like this figured out before I upload anything.
As far as the manual uploads, I'd always just rather include them within the game or app archive itself whenever possible, especially if there is more than one doc.
2009, July 20 - 11:31pm
#10
@bertyboy: You MUST upload that text file or adapt it into a ResEdit Gaming Guide or whatever. Do you know you could be one of the last people on the web with that kind of information? Even (the still hacked) resexcellence.com no longer deals with that kind of stuff and it's supposed to be a site about ResEdit hacks. Everyone in here, including the vast majority of emulator users, can benefit from that information.
2009, July 20 - 11:55pm
#11
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.resexcellence.com/ may help you get some of that info.
2009, July 21 - 6:42am
#12
Thanks again Balrog.
2009, July 21 - 8:59am
#13
Attila,
yep, I learnd very quickly to just include all documentation with the game file if space permits, detailing this in the description. Maybe also load the manual up, for those that just need that.
Balrog,
ResExcellence still in my favourites, but not visited for many years, maybe all that waiting for the new site.
MacWise,
A "teaser" from the files, for "Hellcats Leyte Gulf" - I could never understand why the site copy had "copy protection", mine doesn't.
Hellcats - Leyte Missions v?.?
------------------------------
# The password dialog is eliminated
- CODE 8, offset 0236
- change 6700
to 6000
If you put up a disposable email address I'll email the full list, well this one anyway, I know there are more somewhere. I'll find them soon - I'm migrating my MDD (from 10.3.9 to 10.4.11) so I go through all my docs and important apps (Caesar III, Diablo II, Basilisk II, etc) making sure they still open and run.
2009, July 21 - 3:13pm
#14
@bertyboy: Why don't you post it in here? I'm sure the powers that be won't mind.
2009, July 21 - 6:48pm
#15
The small list is 100KB text, the big list is 356KB text. There's a whole list of in-game cheats too, ie. Control-S in Hellcats Leyte Gulf enters a cheat mode. I'd sit it up and post it in the Games, but I've been waiting for a Docs area.
2009, July 21 - 8:25pm
#16
I mean putting them in here as posts to workaround the hassle of setting up a one-time email account. I then would format them into several guides, so it would be editable by others. That however don't solve the issue at hand: where to upload books in PDF format? In fact it creates a new one: how to add screenshots to guides? But it's a start.
2009, July 21 - 8:55pm
#17
With a little bit of searching, the long list is here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011226172950/http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~fdijkst...
And the shorter list is here:
I know I had other, even bigger documents into the MBs, but I can't find them, been through all my backups (back to 2007), I can only think I've removed them some time before then. I even put an old WD 120GB drive back in my MDD, which had backups from 2005 to 2007, not there, maybe it wasn't in a folder in the backup tree - strange cos I backup almost everything. Hoping they're old enough to still be on my old iMac G3. Otherwise it's digging through old backup CD's and DVD's. don't think the info was as good as these two lists.
2009, July 21 - 11:04pm
#18
Ok I got them. I'll see what I can do.