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Posted by AndreasM on 2008/5/15 9:40:00 (2496 reads) News by the same author

Resized Image It is already known that we try to reprint the English Amiga Guru Book by Ralph Babel.
Some additions were also planned to the original book.

The German Amiga Guru Book is available for some time now.

Nevertheless some Amiga users needed to put some pirated copies of the book online.

The print material is ready and actually we wanted to give it to the printing press.

But since several weeks there is a torrent with a pirated copy of the English Amiga Guru Book online.

Due to the fact that some Amiga users don't show up any support towards those who keep their platform up and try to supply them with information this project is hereby discontinued.

That's why the Amiga Future project AGG which should be financed through the reprint has also been discontinued.

Original statement by Ralph Babel:

Unfortunately, the release of the 800-page extended edition of the Amiga Guru Book (covering OS 3.x and beyond) scheduled for April was preempted by some fool seeding a scan of the older version into one of those pirate-to-pirate networks, eliminating all hopes of me ever being able to recover the cost of a reprint, so the project had to be stopped immediately to avoid further loss of time and money. Thank you, Keith.

http://babel.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

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Mikey_C	Published: 2008/5/15 9:54 Updated: 2008/5/15 9:54
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/19/2006 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Comments: 2137	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued All I can say is F*ing Dkheads! (and I don't mean APC&TCP either)

orgin	Published: 2008/5/15 10:32 Updated: 2008/5/15 10:35
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3255	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued What type of book is it? Programmers book or user book? Edit: Just read on the web page that it's a programmers book. I'd defenitly buy that if it was ever printed (english version). Should be of use even for gcc under os4 I presume?

xeron	Published: 2008/5/15 11:24 Updated: 2008/5/15 11:24
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/28/2006 From: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe Comments: 413	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued The guru book fills in (pretty much) all the gaps in the RKMs, stuff like how to write handlers, filesystems and all sorts of stuff, as far as i can tell. A version updated to just os3.x would still be reasonably useful for OS4 (hell, i was reading my hardcopy RKMs just the other day while developing for OS4). I would definately have bought a copy

orgin	Published: 2008/5/15 12:44 Updated: 2008/5/15 12:44
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3255	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued If there was a price available perhaps it would be possible to set up a preorder thingie for it. And if there's enough interested just print it?

AndreasM	Published: 2008/5/15 12:46 Updated: 2008/5/15 12:46
Quite a regular Joined: 02/15/2007 From: Germany Comments: 654	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued sorry people, the project are dead

Mikey_C	Published: 2008/5/15 13:05 Updated: 2008/5/15 13:05
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/19/2006 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Comments: 2137	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued Shame. Real Shame. I think there is some interest on it Andreas.

afxgroup	Published: 2008/5/15 13:09 Updated: 2008/5/15 13:09
Amigans Defender Joined: 12/02/2006 From: Taranto, Italy Comments: 1289	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued uhm, i think that even if there is a torrent no one prefer a stupid PDF instead a "real" book. Why don't you ask how many people would buy a copy? One is mine

Antique	Published: 2008/5/15 18:50 Updated: 2008/5/15 18:50
Home away from home Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Norway Comments: 2599	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued That's a shame.

LiveForIt	Published: 2008/5/15 22:06 Updated: 2008/5/15 22:06
Home away from home Joined: 11/20/2006 From: Norway Comments: 3727	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued Not where well advertised, did not know about the book before now

AndreasM	Published: 2008/5/16 10:20 Updated: 2008/5/16 10:20
Quite a regular Joined: 02/15/2007 From: Germany Comments: 654	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued i write today a email to ralph and ask him again that he allow that we print the book. when he say no is the project for me closed. dont make really fun when i look why he dont would like reprint the book....

HenryCase	Published: 2008/5/17 14:30 Updated: 2008/5/17 14:30
Just popping in Joined: 03/11/2008 From: Comments: 11	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued I've just created an online petition so we can show Ralph how much we still want a legitimate copy of the Amiga Guru Book in English. Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/4m1ga123/petition.html Thanks.

nbache	Published: 2008/5/17 17:44 Updated: 2008/5/17 17:44
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/01/2006 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Comments: 1461	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued Good initiative. Already 19 signatures in the first three hours. But we need (and should easily get) many more. Get over there and sign, guys! Best regards, Niels

orgin	Published: 2008/5/17 18:20 Updated: 2008/5/17 18:20
Supreme Council Joined: 11/16/2006 From: Sweden Comments: 3255	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued Signed :)

Rigo	Published: 2008/5/18 14:38 Updated: 2008/5/18 14:38
Supreme Council Joined: 11/19/2006 From: London, England Comments: 1358	Re: APC&TCP: Project Guru Book Reprint Discontinued If the rewrite does go ahead, I hope you will get some native English speakers to proof read it :) Simon