Jul 24 2003, 9:07 pm
In response to Hendrix
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Seige1010
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yea I really want the blue book
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the blue book with index is only 225 pages long - if your printer supports something like "2-up" printing, where you can print 2 pages on one sheet of paper, you can cut that number down to about 113 pages - maybe even less since the online book is formatted a bit differently than the paper one I think, and it will still be readable.
Alternately, you could just email dantom about your interest in getting the softcover bluebook - i bet there are probably a few more laying around their house. it was only about $25 i think - and i believe that included shipping. | |
I managed to get the Online Blue book down to about 130 pages, with pretty medium sized text, and printed it out and bound it. Handy little book, lucky i used a laser jet printer though, other wise it would have taken me ages.
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[Edit] Oops... there is still a link to it from the Dream Maker section of "What is BYOND", either way, it is a good little book, its just too bad they arent shipping..
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Nick231 wrote:
http://developer.byond.com/products/BlueBook Please don't use this link. We currently aren't shipping the Blue Book. | |
I got the last sale of the blue book, now I feel so special =D
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So they don't sell it anymore? Good thing I got mine a quite a while ago.
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Printing would take so long and would use so much paper Back when I first started using BYOND I printed the guide, the reference, and the source code to the various demos out at the time. Made from some decent reading during a ~3000 mile car trip :P. | |
Just go to the local printer place, and ask them to print it out for you. It will cost money but Im sure they will do it. (I have no idea how much though)
In theory that should work, no garentees though. PS: The quality wont be too great, but its a solid version. You could probably buy an oldbies original copy aswell. | |
My brother works at a local print shop. They don't print things strait off the web. Well, that's just how it is around here..
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Ok, maybe one of the Dantom staff will put up a downloadable .pdf version of it. That way you can just throw that on CD and take it too them.
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I use a dot matrix printer, do you have absolutely any idea how long that would take(and it doesnt feed paper by itself, I have to feed it each sheet individually)?
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Jotdaniel wrote:
I use a dot matrix printer, do you have absolutely any idea how long that would take(and it doesnt feed paper by itself, I have to feed it each sheet individually)? I suspect it would be faster to get a job, buy a better printer and then print it out =) | |
Most likely, I have a cannon bubble jet thats about 6 years old, but it refuses to work. Its got to be the printer, I've tried 3 different cables with it.
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Hmm. If I find mine, I'd sell it to someone...
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