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(re: Amon Ra Leyendecker Manual Scan)
eee! I’m so excited I can’t do anything but squeal!
Thank you so much. That was a lot of work for you to do.
Very excited that I’ll finally be able to play this game!
🙂 emily
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How do you convert multiple pages into a pdf file? I don’t have Acrobat Distiller but I have Photoshop. The problem with Photoshop is, I can’t make separate pages…I can only make one huuuge picture.
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The Leyendecker one is the one I am interested in. I can understand not wanting to scan the whole thing, especially if you feel uncomfortable about it due to the copyright stuff. Copyright is a sticky issue. My understanding is that you need to refer to various parts of it each time you start the game (am I right?) so unless I can get my hands on the whole thing, I probably won’t be able to get past the copy protection to play.
I will keep looking and will post here if I find a scan of the manual at another site.
-emily
(re: InterAction Magazines) We don’t have any scanned right now – save one issue Brad did as a test run (though his link no longer seems to work – I can re-upload it if need be), and 2 that I’ve scanned but haven’t processed yet.
I’m still waiting to hear back from Brad on what his status is and the guy he was working with to accomplish the project. If we don’t hear back from Brad, we might have to go back to the plan of having anyone who wants to help just go ahead and scan an issue. We’d likely have big differences in quality, but at least more would be seen. So I think we’ll wait a bit more to give Brad a chance to respond, and if there’s no response I’ll re-organize things.
Do you happen to have any duplicate issues? As I mentioned previously, I have a number of holes in my collection, and I also think some of these mags are only best scanned by taking them apart (because they’re so thick), for which I need duplicates.
(InterAction Magazines)
I must admit with a little bit of red in the face that I have not been following threads very carefully, but I have a stack of InterActions/etc. magazines if the site is missing any that need to be scanned. I don’t have a list handy, but if they are needed I can assemble one. Let me know!
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) Can someone else please scan the manual?
Cover shots are not very helpful, beside that they can be found on several other websites.
I mean I uploaded the entire “Colonel Bequest” manual as pdf file. It would be nice I if someone could return the favor.
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) The Leyendecker manual is likely the one with copyright info.
The second and third ones must be from other games. They are standard Sierra manuals that were issued with many games (though not both of them at once, they’re from different years). The Amon Ra manual that contains this sort of standard info was a custom one, not one of the standard ones.
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) Hi, Emily. I looked in the box and I found three manuals…three manuals!?!? haha ok ok I know some of them probably got mixed up with other games I have but just in case, I have the cover posted below of each one that was in the box.
Which one were you referring to? The purple one is the only one that has info about LB2. The others are how to use the mouse, which icons do what, etc.
About the copyright laws, I’m not too crazy about scanning the whole manual and posting it here. Perhaps, Emily, we could ‘discuss’ this through email? It’s jleiby (at) go (dot) com. Sorry for the wierd spelling, I don’t any harvesters getting my email!
If you need help getting past anything in the game, I’ll help you (if that’s why you’d like scans of the manual)
p.s. Thanks, Brandon, for the copyright info. 🙂
leyendecker cover
second cover
third cover(re: Shadow of Yserbius cheat?)
Nevermind, on two accounts:
I’ve learned that Vitamin C only worked online and, I’ve found the X/Y memory values 🙂
(I’ve also learned – yet again – that engines can break whem the user does something they’re not supposed to!)
(re: Quest for Glory & Error 52) Hmm, I don’t do this often, but I thought I’d bump this topic to see if Ken has any memories on this one.
Brandon Klassen, archivist ~ SierraGamers.com admin / dev team ~
(re: SQ3 – Junk Yard Dog) Check this out:
Link: http://www.spacequest.net/sq3/cancelled/(http://www.spacequest.net/sq3/cancelled/) (re: How to start in the game development world) How did you and your employees start out?
Hmm… is it possible that Ken has never told the story on this site?! But then again, I guess everyone knows it. Here’s the story as it’s told in the article “A miracle from the kitchen” by Roberta Williams in one of Sierra’s 1988 catalogues. For further reading about the early days of Sierra, check out the book “Hackers” by Steven Levy.
“A miracle from the kitchen.”
Sierra didn’t start in a garage like other software vendors. We weren’t born out of a marketing plan or staffed and funded by a major corporation. My husband and I started Sierra on a rickety table, in the kitchen of our small family home. Our first software product began as an evening project. Ken (my husband) and I worked on it together. It was kind of like when we hung the pictures in the den or assembled the family photo albums – I supplied the creative design and Ken did the technical work. It wasn’t until we saw the finished product that we ever thought of trying to sell it. We placed a small ad in a magazine and hoped for the best.
That first software program, a game we called Mystery House, eventually sold over 10,000 copies. It was a hundred times more successful than we ever thought it would be! From that family project, we started a family business now known as Sierra On-Line, Inc.
When we started Sierra, we had no idea how big the computer industry was going to become. We thought computers and software would always be a small industry, of interest only to hackers and hobbyists like ourselves. Well, we were wrong. Our little software business quickly outgrew the space available on our kitchen table, and the operations had to be moved into the den and spare bedroom. But that didn’t last for long. Soon, we had no choice but to move our business to a larger building above the local print shop. Before we knew it, we had occupied three other buildings in town and we continued to grow. With the house (and kitchen table) once again available we created three more bestselling adventure games (The Wizard and the Princess, Mission Asteroid and Cranston Manor) over the next 18 months.
Today, I don’t work out of the spare bedroom anymore (our first house burned down in late 1982). I had to begin designing my adventures at the office in downtown Coarsegold. We hired some extra hands to help us out (about 77 pair at last count) and now our little software company takes up most of the town’s biggest office building. It’s very different from working at home, but the office still has a very “homey” feel to it. We’re all very casual (no neckties or shoes) and everyone gets along. It sounds a little trite, but we really do try to be one happy family. Every time I visit the Sierra offices, I think of a little line my mom used to say when she brought dinner to the table, “Here comes another miracle from the kitchen.” It was her favorite joke. Sierra On-Line is our miracle from the kitchen, and with every new product comes a new miracle. I hope you enjoy them…
Signed,
Roberta Williams.
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) P.S. Is scanning manuals legal? I don’t want to voilate copyright laws…
1) It’s not legal. Most manuals probably say inside something like “do not reproduce this.”
2) Websites have reproduced manuals and haven’t gotten into trouble yet. Such as replacementdocs.com, or in a Sierra-specific example, SpaceQuest.net.
3) VU Games likely doesn’t care if we scan the old Sierra manuals.
4) Ken Williams says it’s OK on this website, in his opinion.
So, you have to make your own decision.
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) I have the original boxed version of LB2. The manual should be in the box. When I get home, I’ll see if it’s in there…I’ll scan it in. Does anyone want it in hi-res? Otherwise, I’ll just post them big enough to be ledgible.
P.S. Is scanning manuals legal? I don’t want to voilate copyright laws…
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) I’m still hoping someone will do some LB2 scans… I picked up a boxed copy at Goodwill a few months ago but all the documentation was for Colonel’s Bequest. I think someone got their manuals mixed up in the wrong boxes before they made their Goodwill donations. 🙁 The game that came in the box is the floppy disk version so I can’t play it without the copy protection.
Brandon, I think your “black box” looks good!
-emily
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) Sorry, I don’t have the full boxed version of LB2, only the CD jewel case version.
Vincent.
(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) BEAR, cool! I love the Gabriel Knight 1 box, it’s so crazy, I don’t have one though.
Trin, hmmm, well it won’t be me ’cause I don’t have an open copy of this game! It was Vincent I believe who said he was going to work on doing all these sorts of things so eventually we’ll have everything here, maybe someone else will do though for you now.
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I would really appreciate it, if someone could scan the manual(s) and maps of Laura Bow 2 and upload it here.
Thx in advance
ps.: nice shot.
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You can call me BEAR or user name HerrBearen… as that’s what I’m known by all over Aventure Forums. GH3x2 and 1 is still sealed. MOE, KQ/LECollection, GK1/2 LE in English and German are all opened and played. But, As with all my games, the boxes and CD’s are in the best of condition, have their respective books and maps… and anything else that was included with the game. These are part of my private collection, bought new, starting in 1998. I have also kept an archive of game pix and screenshots from 1999 until now. I still have the last InterActive magazine that Sierra sent out.. the only one I ever received, after registering Gabriel Knight 2. Just for this archive that you are trying to build, here is an eBay capture from 3-4 years ago, of GK1. The owner of this received a winning bid of 300.00+ for this set. (I was not the owner)
Gabriel Knight 1 Original Box(re: Amon Ra Product Shot Test) Thanks for the comments guys. Keep ’em coming. If the basics are good, start telling me the not-so-basics. I updated the image with a bit of a caption. If it’s in your cache, you have to refresh the page.
Robert, do you mean you have sealed boxes of those items, or just the opened boxes? I assume you’re talking about open boxes. I have a decent collection of good-condition open boxes, and now I’m trying to acquire all the sealed items that I can, and multiple copies – one copy for display as a sealed museum piece, another copy that I can take apart for archival purposes, and a third copy as a play copy. Of course, some games have multiple versions which I’m trying to acquire too. By now, I’ve run out of eBay funds though. Still, I have a good number of items. Hopefully part of the musem will be another aid to collectors who are just starting out (I wouldn’t want to or be able to do better than the already exhaustive vintage-sierra.com)
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I, too, also think it’s a well done job. I still have original boxes for Shivers, Shivers II, GK2, GK/LE, MOE, KQ/LE, Red Baron 3D, Phantas2, GK3, GK/LE German Edition, Jewel Case GK1 and Torin’s Passage. Also, still have KQ5 on Nintendo.
(re: GK Tourism) Julie,
Here are the pictures I have from Rennes-le-Château and surrounding areas. While browsing them, I noticed most have my family or friend on them, so I didn’t include those, sorry.
BTW, the other traveller indicates the Château de Blanchefort can only be accessed by rock climbing. This is not true (although it is the most direct): there is a small path on the left before arriving to the castle that leads to the other side of the casle plateau. Much easier 😉
Vincent.
Ruins of Château de Blanchefort
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Signs indicating the direction for the Château de Blanchefort, the Devil’s Armchair and other places.
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