VERY RARE - FA or Buy It Now - Ralph Babel's "The Amiga Guru Book"!!!

[Thorham]

You don't need an expensive book to do serious Amiga programming. The whole notion seems absurd.

There is a good quality scan version of it, you can search in it and it has a chapter menu so ther is a good one out there, but as you say nothing beats the original, if I could spare the cash right now I would buy it .

Nothing beats a properly scanned version that's searchable. Much preferable to a paper version which can't be searched. Major back draw of books, IMHO.

[Thorham]

No, you don't NEED a reference to program

I didn't say you don't need a reference manual, I said that you don't need an expensive book.

Agreed! ...and as much a reason not to scan and post really well done, self published work like this as any!

You could buy a book and scan it, or download a scanned version of it. It would be even better if technical books came with a digital version.

[Thorham]

Do you not understand the concept of Copyright?

Sure I do, and I don't have scanned books that I don't have a physical copy of. I use other reference material: http://amigadev.elowar.com/. This would've been taken down very fast if Vesalia had a problem with it. Has been on-line for years now. Also, the autodocs are usually quite sufficient for many things.

then you can have an opinion on whether a scanned version is better than a paper version.

I can, and am legally able in my country, to have ANY opinion I want. No need for YOU to tell me what I may and may not do, thank you very much.

I own a real and valid copy of his book and see no need in a scanned version and I also have a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica.  You know they both have this old thing called an "Index."

It's great for you that you prefer physical copies, and they're great. I wish I had The Art of Computer Programming, but can't afford it right now. However, for reference manuals it's certainly a good thing to have a digital copy for getting to the information you're looking for faster. Don't see how that's so hard to understand.

I'm not advocating theft here. Buy a copy and get a digital version somehow. Or just buy the digital copy instead if available. Both options are obviously better than buying second hand, because the author won't see a dime then.

[Thorham]

Unfortunately on Amiga online programming resource are very scarce. There is amigacoding.de and that is it.

Oh lord, what a nonsense. Really, one minuscule site is all there is? :roflmao:

[Thorham]

You have to love those who blame the victim, "You were raped because you deserve it."

Yeah, that's vile indeed

Still Ralph's book is amazing and any Amiga programmer should BUY one.

Not me, because I see no need. And no, I'm not downloading it, either. Most of what you need to know to write AmigaOS software is in the autodocs. Of course, they're not ideal, and certainly can't beat 700+ pages worth of in-depth explanations, but they're sufficient.

[Thorham]

IF you really want to show us something. Promise at the least 50% to Ralph.

You're absolutely right. If I wanted this book, I'd contact Ralph and ask him what he wants for me using a scanned version. That way he'd get cash for his work.