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Title: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: curtis on July 30, 2012, 08:06:12 PM

Stumbled across this today while looking for something and figured at least 1 person would want this link, so here it is!

http://www.diystash.com/downloads/other/amiga

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: lionstorm on July 30, 2012, 08:39:52 PM

good catch, thx !

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: Domi73 on July 30, 2012, 09:01:13 PM

Thanks for sharing :)

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: ognix on July 30, 2012, 09:35:52 PM

Thanks for sharing!  :)

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: takemehomegrandma on July 30, 2012, 09:36:21 PM

Quote from: curtis;701615

Stumbled across this today while looking for something and figured at least 1 person would want this link, so here it is!

http://www.diystash.com/downloads/other/amiga

Thanks! A lat of goodies there, including some old RKRM stuff... :)

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: kedawa on July 31, 2012, 01:22:54 AM

There's a lot of great stuff there, but there's a pretty stingy download limit.  I'll have to visit the page daily for the next week or two and gather what I need.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: Drummerboy on July 31, 2012, 06:57:35 AM

Thanks for Sharing!

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: motrucker on July 31, 2012, 09:06:17 AM

I see a couple of things that even bombjack.org doesn't yet have. Thank you.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: Lord Aga on July 31, 2012, 10:07:17 AM

Top stuff !

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: Matt_H on August 01, 2012, 12:10:02 AM

(Almost?) everything on there appears to be ripped off from here (http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/willkommen.html).

Nice to have it mirrored, but it's not unique.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: DLH on August 01, 2012, 11:41:28 AM

What we need is more people scanning manuals and documents, not just copying and reposting them.
 
More amazing is the amount of people who buy into it is something different.
 
DLH
 
www.bombjack.org/commodore (http://www.bombjack.org/commodore)

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: hishamk on August 01, 2012, 12:58:04 PM

Sorry to bust the party, but am wondering about the legality of these scans at http://www.diystash.com/downloads/other/amiga and http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/willkommen.html. Are they sufficiently old to have lost their copyright status in the US and Europe?

Just wondering - I know a lot of these titles are hard to come by nowadays on sites like eBay or Alibris - so preservation of the knowledge in them is a priority.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: dammy on August 01, 2012, 02:48:03 PM

Quote from: hishamk;701777

Sorry to bust the party, but am wondering about the legality of these scans at http://www.diystash.com/downloads/other/amiga and http://amiga-manuals.npage.de/willkommen.html. Are they sufficiently old to have lost their copyright status in the US and Europe?

Just wondering - I know a lot of these titles are hard to come by nowadays on sites like eBay or Alibris - so preservation of the knowledge in them is a priority.

Copyright material is good for 70 years:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: runequester on August 02, 2012, 07:24:52 AM

If someone can prove they hold the copyright and wish to defend it, I am sure the content will be removed promptly

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: kedawa on August 02, 2012, 08:30:00 AM

I hope not.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: hishamk on August 02, 2012, 11:03:55 AM

Since they seem to be the (un)official archivists of Amiga, perhaps Cloanto, the guys behind Amiga Forever, can contact publishers and get their permission to include scanned copies of books with Amiga Forever.

Title: Re: Scanned copies of a TON of Amiga manuals
Post by: Duce on August 02, 2012, 11:07:48 AM

This site is a tremendous source of info, cheers for the link.