Shadowcat on 27/3/2001 at 01:51
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http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/terranovpj.htm) http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/terranovpj.htm
Price is US$10 + shipping (which can get costly if you're not in the U.S.)
Seems to be a jewel-case-only version -- does anyone have this?! and if so, how is the manual supplied?? (If it's on the CD-ROM, the manual project may be unnecessary...)
(We should probably compile a list of sources for buying Terra Nova -- it's much better to have an original.)
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Shadowcat
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Brad Schoonmaker on 27/3/2001 at 02:18
That's the place I got mine a couple of years back. It was local at the time, though.
I've seen it recently at EB, I think. I saw it somewhere when I was hunting down Thief Gold and Theif 2. It was probably an independent store, come to think of it.
Brad S.
Shadowcat on 27/3/2001 at 04:40
I guess that answers my question about a manual on the CD-ROM, then :)
Brad Schoonmaker on 27/3/2001 at 23:27
What?
Confused am I...
Brad S.
Shadowcat on 28/3/2001 at 15:53
Well if you got your copy there, and the manual was on the CD-ROM, you'd hardly be contemplating scanning it to make an electronic version (nor capable of doing so, for that matter...)
Brad Schoonmaker on 29/3/2001 at 00:40
That's what I thought you meant, but maybe the jewel case version has the manual on the CD? Anyone know if it is?
I wanted the full boxed game because I wanted the paper docs and not the digital versions.
BTW, did you get my email I sent you?
Brad S.
Shadowcat on 29/3/2001 at 01:22
Okay, I'm with it now :) I think my mind was wandering yesterday... you were even talking about scanning the box cover, so I don't know why I imagined you'd picked up a jewel-case version...
> BTW, did you get my email I sent you?
Yes indeed, but I spent all my time trying to get my Realms of the Haunting key-binding information dealt to, so I didn't get around to replying. I did have a quick look at the scan and it seemed entirely readable, which is the only real requirement :)
Brad Schoonmaker on 29/3/2001 at 02:03
What about puting them together in one file? That's the next problem.
Brad S.
Shadowcat on 30/3/2001 at 02:24
Well I finally remembered to actually look at the manual :)
There's almost no text overlapping background images, so I think we could quite successfully do this any way we wanted. Glancing through it, I still think a web page with embedded images would work best for online reading. For printing, a replica of the real manual would be nice.
My suggestion is... scan each full page at a decent resolution to give us our source material for whichever format(s) we go with.
Presumably we can subsequently give image files to your OCR software in order to extract the text from each page, and once we've done that we can edit the text and images to our heart's content...
Scan a couple of pages as a test, and see how successful the OCR process is.
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Brad Schoonmaker on 30/3/2001 at 03:25
I'll get my sorry butt over to get that manual, soon. I've been too lazy to venture out into the commute traffic near my storage place.
I actually like the web page idea.
Inline Image:
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif I didn't think of that. DUH! I don't know nuthin about that stuff.
Brad S.
p.s. I guess we're the only ones on this project, huh?
