retrobits Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 (edited) This continues Thumpnugget's current labor of love to scan all Atari books in existence (not including manuals). Thanks to everyone who donated books and helped out -- especially Thump himself for the tireless top quality scanning! There is 39 additional books included in this torrent, and with the original 57, comes to a total of *** 96 books *** or 5.4GB. If you don't want to re-download, you can just use your bit torrent client when adding the torrent to select files you are missing. Also the file names have not changed so you could also just download over the top of the old torrent folder. I will try to seed with 100% up time at full tilt for as long as I can. Hopefully we can get many other seeders soon. Here is the torrent you are looking for. Books included: 101 Atari Computer Programming Tips & Tricks ABCs of Atari Computers Advanced Programming Techniques for the Atari Adventures with the Atari An Atari 8-bit Extra Assembly Language Programming For Atari Computers Atari 130XE Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner Atari Assembly Language Programmers Guide Atari BASIC Faster and Better Atari BASIC Learning by Using Atari BASIC Tutorial Atari BASIC XL Edition Atari BASIC Atari BASIC (2) Atari for Kids from 8 to 80 Atari for the Begining Beginner Atari Fun and Games Atari Games and Recreations Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design Atari in Wonderland Atari Player Missle Graphics in BASIC Atari Programming with 55 Programs Atari Roots Atari Software Protection Techniques Atari Sound and Graphics Awesome Games for your Atari Computer Basic Atari BASIC BASIC Exercises for the Atari Best of SoftSide Atari Edition Computer Art and Animation Computer Playground Computers for Kids Computers for People Computes Atari Collection Vol 1 Computes Atari Collection Vol 2 Computes First Book of Atari Games Computes First Book of Atari Graphics Computes First Book of Atari Computes Second Book of Atari Graphics Computes Second Book of Atari Computes Third Book of Atari De Re Atari Designs from your Mind with Atari Graphics Disk Guide Atari 400 and 800 Dr C Wacko Presents Atari BASIC Dr Wackos Guide to Creating Arcade Games FORTH on the Atari Learning by Using Free Software for your Atari Games Ataris Play Games for the Atari Games for your Atari Hackerbook for your Atari Computer Home Applications and Games for the Atari How to Program you Atari in 6502 Language How to Use Atari Computers I Speak BASIC to my Atari Inside Atari BASIC Inside Atari BASIC (2) Itty Bitty Bytes of Space Kids and the Atari Machine Language for Beginners Mapping the Atari Master Memory Map Mostly BASIC Applications for your Atari Book 1 Mostly BASIC Applications for your Atari Book 2 Programming Your Atari Computer Rainy Day Activities for the Atari Speedscript Stimulating Simulations (Atari Version) The Analog Compendium The Atari 800XL A Practical Guide The Atari Assembler The Atari BASIC Source Book The Atari Experience The Atari Playground The Atari Users Encyclopedia The Best Atari Software The Best of Antic Anthology The Book of Atari Software 1983 The Creative Atari The Elementary Atari The Mastery Memory Map The Musical Atari The Second Book of Machine Language The Users Guide to the Atari 400 800 The Users Guide to the Atari The Visicalc Book Atari Edition Things to do with your Atari Computer Time Lost - A Computer Adventure Tricky Tutorial 7 Disk Utilities Tricky Tutorials 1-6 Understanding Atari Graphics Users Handbook to the Atari Your Atari Comes Alive Your Atari Computer XL Edition Your Atari Computer and the "tombstones" Edited May 21, 2010 by retrobits 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 i just started it, it is verifying it compared to thump's torrent and once it verify's its the same, it is saying its 100% done... so i dont even have to select which are already done in the other torrent... GNU/Linux, its what for dinner ;') sloopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Now we need to get all the programs for the books. I have them for a few of them. I'll post them when I find them. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Nice - joined up at 60% or so. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrobits Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 YES! we are already at 70% seeded (started at 60%) after only about an hour. At that rate we should be complete in only a few more hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Thanks for sticking the torrent up Retrobits! It was a great idea to put both books sets together and have one giant list of books and let people select which ones they want and allow new people to get the full set. Not to quibble but it is 96 books (the Best of SoftSide is missing in the list) I know there are a couple of other books missing that I did not get into the torrent. I ran out of time for now and just had to stop. Also my paper cutter is now dead and waiting for a new blade (Some of Allan's books proved too much for it.. It did last for over 100,000 pages so not too shabby!) Anyway I wanted to thank everyone for the books, including the ones that did not get into the torrent this time around. This felt much more like a community effort which was awesome (and like Christmas getting all those books in the mail and on the FTP server heh!) I'll start on the next round when I get back home in mid June Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookt Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Thanks for the effort everyone who contributed. I'll leave this seeding once it's complete which should be in a couple of hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 (edited) An outstanding effort. A thousand thanks for this. I look forward to many, many hours of happy reading! Edited May 20, 2010 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I have the book by Ian Sinclair, titled "Get More From The Atari". Anyone interested in this book? Maybe it can be added. Then I'd need to scan it, or just make simple digital photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrobits Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 Not to quibble but it is 96 books (the Best of SoftSide is missing in the list) ... Not to further quibble but "Best of Softsite Atari Edition" is in the list. I just counted the files from the original torrent and from the DVD you sent. I also counted the "tombstone" cover images. Both add up to 95 books. I know there are a couple of other books missing that I did not get into the torrent ... Looking forward to next time around. I think I might have another contribution or two also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Well crap I missed one.. Best of Softside is not in the tombstones but it is in the list.. I have 96 books in my directory. I wonder what book is in the tombstones but not in list.. ga! I will have to check when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Well crap I missed one.. Best of Softside is not in the tombstones but it is in the list.. I have 96 books in my directory. I wonder what book is in the tombstones but not in list.. ga! I will have to check when I get home. Just checked my download... 95 books As I posted in the other threasd, I'm in the middle of inventory and may have some books to add... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I am anxious to see what books you have to add... Ahh! I found the book that is missing! "Atari for Beginning Beginners" is not in the list but in the tombstones and I have the PDF in my books directory. I don't know how I missed that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Trying to get uTorrent to just grab the new pieces. I'll leave it running as long as I can (once I figure out how to get the new files ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I've had it since last night, been seeding ever since, and will continue to do so for awhile. Someone's pulling b/c it's been at well over 100k/second every time I look. Just wanted to say thanks again for everyone involved with this. That's a lot of work scanning all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 OK - I have it working. I am at 61.6% complete, hopefully will be done within an hour. I've got this on a VM, so I can leave it running for a few days. Thanks for all of the work in scanning posting these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tregare Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 My MacPro should be seeding also. I'm pretty sure I restarted the DL after booting back into MacOS... I am SO looking forward to Left4Dead/Left4Dead2 and the HL2 games being ready for Mac. that's the main reason I boot to windows is to play the games that aren't there for MacOSX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrobits Posted May 20, 2010 Author Share Posted May 20, 2010 (edited) Ahh! I found the book that is missing! "Atari for Beginning Beginners" is not in the list but in the tombstones and I have the PDF in my books directory. I don't know how I missed that... I know how you missed it, its because you didn't -- I did. I have no idea how I did it (just lucky I guess ) -- when copying the pdfs off the dvd I missed that one. I cross checked the count against the tombstones and came up with the same number and never looked back. Sorry for the confusion, new torrent coming ASAP. *** EDIT *** OK, for those atarians who must have it all and have it now... I give you you a new torrent HERE This is a superset of all previous Atari book torrents with not 57, not 95, but whoa momma! -- a whopping 96 books. Again, I will be seeding this at full tilt for as long as I can. I wish I could edit the torrent link in the OP, but can't figure out how. Edited May 20, 2010 by retrobits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 I wish I could edit the torrent link in the OP, but can't figure out how. I've given you permission to edit that post. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrobits Posted May 21, 2010 Author Share Posted May 21, 2010 I wish I could edit the torrent link in the OP, but can't figure out how. I've given you permission to edit that post. ..Al Thanks Al, you are the man. Now if you could just change the thread title to 96 instead of 95, all would be right again in the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 I wish I could edit the torrent link in the OP, but can't figure out how. I've given you permission to edit that post. ..Al Thanks Al, you are the man. Now if you could just change the thread title to 96 instead of 95, all would be right again in the universe. You can edit the thread title--after clicking the "Edit" button, then click "Use Full Editor" and you can then edit the title as necessary. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrobits Posted May 21, 2010 Author Share Posted May 21, 2010 You can edit the thread title--after clicking the "Edit" button, then click "Use Full Editor" and you can then edit the title as necessary. ..Al I'm learning new stuff every minute around here. Thanks for your timely help Al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beamer320i Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Just finished downloading mine, now seeding for others! Great work guys, this is much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Been seeding for a while now - 50GB up! Just glanced over "Your Atari Computer XL edition" - am I missing something? It looks like they only added 7 pages with the XL at the end and called it a day! Glad I never bought the updated version, I would have been very disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Downloaded and seeding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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