Re: Alternate Reality - City and Dungeon
Bill Kendrick
> Back in 1986, there was a forum on Compu$erve for Alternate Reality,
> The City. I captured the entire forum comments from June 30, 1986
> (Message 1) through to December 15, 1988 (Message 221.)
I can't speak to the legality of publishing the forum discussions, but..
> I have been able to scan my old printouts of these forums into PDF
> Format. My problem is that the files are VERY large - 27Mb and 30Mb
> for the two. (You will understand why so big when you see them!)
... it sounds like the PDFs are just giant scanned images.
It'd be useful to run them through an OCR (optical character recognition)
tool, to turn them back into text.
It might be something AtariMuseum.com would want.
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Gabooch wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have been a fan of Atari for MANY Years, since the Atari 400 first came out,
> actually - I can't BELIVE how much money I spent on that thing, or how much it was
> WORTH IT!!
>
> Anyway, back in the day I was a die-hard Alternate Reality fanatic, and I just found
> some very interesting commentary on the two games while digging through some old
> boxes.
>
> Back in 1986, there was a forum on Compu$erve for Alternate Reality, The City. I
> captured the entire forum comments from June 30, 1986 (Message 1) through to December
> 15, 1988 (Message 221.)
>
> And there was a Forum for Alternate Reality, The Dungeon as well. I have messages
> from August 26, 1987 (Message 1) through to February 4, 1989 (Message 247.) Cost me
> an arm and a leg to download those forums at 300 baud!!
>
> Sound boring? NOT!!
>
> These forums include many responses from Philip Price -The MASTER HIMSELF. As well,
> there are heaps of hints, comments and just plain cool things discussed about the two
> games.
>
> I have been able to scan my old printouts of these forums into PDF Format. My
> problem is that the files are VERY large - 27Mb and 30Mb for the two. (You will
> understand why so big when you see them!)
>
> Thus, I cannot attach them here.
>
> Any suggestions as to where I upload them to? (I shall watch this newsgroup for any
> assistance!)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Agent D.A.D.
stopw...@lavabit.com
comments in existence. I am an AR fan and love as well to hear the
stories of Phillip Price's creation of AR (he was in a shack on a
beach somewhere, fighting off lizards) and about the music and
business and so forth. I hope you are able to share those and make
them available on a website somehow. It seems to me like the key thing
is to get them in straight text format, after that the file size is
small and they can easily be hosted. I would host them on my personal
website even.
Velcro_SP
On Mar 20, 4:28 pm, "Gabooch" <Anonym...@anon.com> wrote:
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> Anyway, back in the day I was a die-hard Alternate Reality fanatic, and I just found
> some very interesting commentary on the two games while digging through some old
> boxes.
>
> Back in 1986, there was a forum on Compu$erve for Alternate Reality, The City. I
> captured the entire forum comments from June 30, 1986 (Message 1) through to December
> 15, 1988 (Message 221.)
>
> And there was a Forum for Alternate Reality, The Dungeon as well. I have messages
> from August 26, 1987 (Message 1) through to February 4, 1989 (Message 247.) Cost me
> an arm and a leg to download those forums at 300 baud!!
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Gabooch
Also, the reason the files are so big is, correctly, because they are images
- the original forums had many lines of header information before each
message, so I chose to print them out in a three-column style, on a
dot-matrix printer, in condensed type. Perfectly readable, and big paper
saving, but not really suitable for OCR (I did try, Acrobat does not do a
very good job of this style...)
I will check up on the couple of suggested locations to post these to.
Agent D.A.D.