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Title: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: AndreasM on April 20, 2007, 12:48:12 PM
Some time ago we rereleased the German Amiga Guru Book. We have promised to care for a reprint of the English Amiga Guru Book aswell.

Recently we've been fully occupied with various other projects (amongst others the English version of the Amiga Future) and couldn't take care of the Guru Book.

Now we have more time and want to work more intensely on this project.

Because of that we ask all users who are interested in a reprint of the Amiga Guru Book to drop an email to andreas@apc-tcp.de using the subject "Guru Book".

This is not a preorder! We only want to check if there are enough interested people for a reprint!
We are not able to tell a price nor release date!

http://www.apc-tcp.de
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: MrZammler on April 20, 2007, 03:12:24 PM
Mail sent!

Very much interested.

I seem to remember the same thing a few months ago (mail sent then too). Anything changed from then?
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: LoadWB on April 20, 2007, 03:52:56 PM
YEAH BABY!
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: trilobyte on April 20, 2007, 07:21:37 PM
Best.  Book.  Ever.

I've been trying to get a copy of the English edition since 1998.  At the time, I lived in the same town as one of the distributors.  I asked the shopkeeper if he had anymore and said he had sold the last three copies not months before :(
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Piru on April 20, 2007, 11:09:11 PM
I've found a couple of errors from the book. :-)
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Minuous on April 20, 2007, 11:36:06 PM
Which are...?
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Piru on April 20, 2007, 11:42:19 PM
I've forgot the others, but the most obvious one is the wrong documentation and example usage of dos.library/ReadLink() and ACTION_READ_LINK. The return value is not BOOL success value, but:
dp_Res1
-2 the passed buffer was too small
-1 some other error occured, dp_Res2 has more info
other: length of the string filled to buffer

And the same mapped to ReadLink(), where dp_Res2 is in IoErr(), and dp_Res1 in D0.

Thus example code of
Code: [Select]

if (ReadLink(...))
{
  /* success - do stuff */
}
else
{
  /* failed */
}

...is wrong. It should be:
Code: [Select]

if (ReadLink(...) > 0)
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Colin_Camper on April 21, 2007, 12:54:47 PM
@thread

Count me in for a copy - up to $50.
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: saidone on April 21, 2007, 04:28:40 PM
Yepp, count also me!
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: swift240 on April 21, 2007, 06:03:08 PM
Yes, I for one would like that idea.
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Minuous on April 21, 2007, 11:25:52 PM
Thanks Piru.
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: joetee on April 22, 2007, 03:43:33 PM
Awesome: count me in for at least two books!
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: likewise on April 28, 2007, 03:43:34 PM
I have got a good copy of the English edition for sale for EUR 40 or USD 55.

It shows a few creases on the spine cover from having laid open on the most interesting pages :-) Other than that the binding, paper and cover are in very good condition.

E-mail me at leonw * mailcan . com

[same goes for the Kernel / Devices / Includes Reference Manuals]
Title: Re: Reprint of the Amiga Guru Book
Post by: Terse on May 15, 2008, 10:59:29 PM
Has anyone figured out what the book is/does yet?