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  • Manual Lover Overdose

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 12:21:38 2023
    Old-time gamers generally agree; there's nothing better than a good
    manual. Alas, manuals these days tend to be flimsy, anemic things (if
    you even get one at all), barely worth reading. And who has room to
    store all those great manuals from yesteryear?

    The answer is, of course, archive.org. Sure, their manuals are all in
    digital format, but - boy howdy! - if you like manuals, that is the
    place to go. Just browsing through the unsorted contributions page is
    an amazing journey. And it is not just the usual video game manuals
    (for every platform, from every era) you can find there.

    Board game manuals? Check. Manuals for every type of universal TV
    remote? Check. Manuals for every single Lego set released? You know
    it. Manuals for a computer network card not used (or even produced) in
    the last twenty years? They got that. Military survival manuals? Yup.
    100-year old manuals teaching you how to properly fuel a steam
    locomotive? Why not? Manuals for flying USAF fighter jets from the
    1950s? Got that too. Manuals for freaking rockets used to push
    satellites into orbit, really? Yeah, really! If there's a manual for
    it, odds are it can be found on archive.org

    I admit; I went a bit hog-wild there; I downloaded such an extent of
    manuals to peruse in my spare time that my tablet is bursting at the
    seams. But that's not a complaint; it's great! I've got reading
    material for months now.

    Look, what I'm saying is that - if you like manuals - you owe it to
    yourself to look through archive.org. https://archive.org/details/manuals_contributions?query=NOT+lego&sort=-addeddate&page=47





    * side note: I'm a contributor to that site. But have fun finding my
    additions; they're a drop in the ocean.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri Apr 14 00:31:32 2023
    I like finding keywords in digital manuals because I'm lazy! :)


    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Old-time gamers generally agree; there's nothing better than a good
    manual. Alas, manuals these days tend to be flimsy, anemic things (if
    you even get one at all), barely worth reading. And who has room to
    store all those great manuals from yesteryear?

    The answer is, of course, archive.org. Sure, their manuals are all in
    digital format, but - boy howdy! - if you like manuals, that is the
    place to go. Just browsing through the unsorted contributions page is
    an amazing journey. And it is not just the usual video game manuals
    (for every platform, from every era) you can find there.

    Board game manuals? Check. Manuals for every type of universal TV
    remote? Check. Manuals for every single Lego set released? You know
    it. Manuals for a computer network card not used (or even produced) in
    the last twenty years? They got that. Military survival manuals? Yup. 100-year old manuals teaching you how to properly fuel a steam
    locomotive? Why not? Manuals for flying USAF fighter jets from the
    1950s? Got that too. Manuals for freaking rockets used to push
    satellites into orbit, really? Yeah, really! If there's a manual for
    it, odds are it can be found on archive.org

    I admit; I went a bit hog-wild there; I downloaded such an extent of
    manuals to peruse in my spare time that my tablet is bursting at the
    seams. But that's not a complaint; it's great! I've got reading
    material for months now.

    Look, what I'm saying is that - if you like manuals - you owe it to
    yourself to look through archive.org. https://archive.org/details/manuals_contributions?query=NOT+lego&sort=-addeddate&page=47





    * side note: I'm a contributor to that site. But have fun finding my additions; they're a drop in the ocean.



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  • From Geeknix@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Fri Apr 14 18:59:28 2023
    On 14/04/2023 00:21, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    The answer is, of course, archive.org. Sure, their manuals are all in
    digital format, but - boy howdy! - if you like manuals, that is the
    place to go. Just browsing through the unsorted contributions page is
    an amazing journey. And it is not just the usual video game manuals
    (for every platform, from every era) you can find there.

    I've been using the site for Flight Sim. You can find mauals on
    navigation, avionics, planes, ATC, everything you need to learn about
    flying in sim. It really is amazing site that I should donate a bit more to.

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