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

[nicholas]

1. Go to Google.com
2. Enter "bookname filetype:pdf
3. Click search
4. Profit!

ps I own a printed copy of The Guru Book but the searchable scanned copy is much more convenient at times.

[nicholas]

My understanding is that this book is intended to Amiga "Classic" computers and is not relevant to NG ones.

Am I right?

Kamelito

Yes it's for real Amigas.

[nicholas]

Fill yer boots pirates!

http://amiga-manuals.xiik.net/amiga.php
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/
http://amigadev.elowar.com/
http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9090d859dec515cc81de9e17454d26866ac74579&dn=Amiga+Guru+Book+Ralph+Babel+English+PDF&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

[nicholas]

All property is theft.

[nicholas]

..and those who say such things and offer no workable, pragmatic alternative are wasting everyone's time and making sure nothing gets done.

..and you selling a second hand copy of Ralph's work benefits who exactly?

[nicholas]

Considering how much has been said above I would have thought that was made clear already, but I will summarize:

- selling good quality used/2nd hand goods of any sort demonstrates their continued value to those unfamiliar with them
- provides the initial purchasers with some recovery of their investment, and in the case of 3rd or 4th hand buyers, recovery of their investment and perhaps some benefit for their maintenance of and care of increasingly rare items. (this includes me)  Without this, many things would become impossible to find much quicker.
- provides the developer community with some indication of what subjects are of interest to the community, and where they might put new effort if they're interested in producing something within that community.

There are additional and tangential benefits to an active used marketplace including encouraging an active primary developer community and market.

Yes, there are plenty of examples of the corrosive ways capitalism can manifest itself, but those are not typically obvious, or relevant to the open secondary market.  ..and not a relevant pretense for proposing socialism or open access to everything without any pragmatic description of how that would work or support the community.

..and me posting links to free copies of Amiga programming reference manuals benefits the wider community tenfold.

[nicholas]

Here we disagree.

Posting such links further demonstrates to authors including Ralph, that there are plenty who will promote and use digital versions that infringe on their copyright so there is no incentive for them to revise or author new works of value.

If there were a new, updated edition of such volumes I guarantee the market for the first edition would evaporate immediately, but not when there would likely also be a scanned digital version online of the new edition!

100% of the books I posted links to are now out of print.

If you want people to learn how to code for Amigas there is no better way than to give them free documentation.

I could sell my RKRM's, Guru Book and various other Amiga coding books but the main benificary of those sales would be me; certainly not the wider community nor the original authors.

[nicholas]

..and when you "give away" your own personal copies when you're done with them, especially if the works is 'out of print', and you would benefit the community, and the person you gave them to would likely appreciate them as they were not easy to come by.

..but when you encourage free access to infringed digital copies, you make certain no one will ever do a reprint, and inhibit the necessity for a new edition.

Bollox.

[nicholas]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=amiga+filetype:[b][/b]pdf

[nicholas]

Sadly, this is THE forum to meet such a group as you have described; those adolescents still fingering everybody who grew up and became responsible adults striving to support their families and THIS community in a nurturing and positive way.

Providing free documentation of books that will never be printed again benefits the community in a much more "nurturing and positive way" than selling second hand copies of these books will ever do.

The fact that you can't see this says more about you than it does we "adolescents".