Spacola space-map - online project
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            (2.10.2004)   
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NEWS:
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2.10.2004: 
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- added first 21 pages of the
  book because of interest of many 
  people, so now we need someone with
  german and english language knowledge
  to translate them.
- also added the work of Alex 
  (lons_vex@gmx.de)
- I'm sorry for not replying most of 
  your e-mails as I'm quite busy last
  3 months - now I got a part-time job 
  and school and Eiffels to build and
  trouble with the mail-server and...
- project moved from 
  neuron.tuke.sk/~nohaj/spacola 
  (school server) to private server
  ftp://ftp.atari.art.pl/stuff/other/spacola/
  hosted by Azbest (m@pigwa.net)

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THE STORY:
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I have put here this book scanned, 
because I know how hard it is to get it
- I've hunted for it for more than
2 years, and I finnaly got it - I bough
it from ebay.de through my friend who 
lives there (I'm not from Germany and
german people don't want to sell and
send their stuff to no-one who's not
from Germany).

I allways  wanted to play this game
to the end, not only the first level
(but this is possible only with the 
codes from this book), but I don't want
to be like other jerks that have this
book and don't wan't to share it in any
kind (don't want to scann it, or do
anything else), so I give it to the 
public....

I didn't want to put this book on the
web as raw scanned pictures, because 
this way it's about 53 MB you have to
download when you want to have it all.
I tried to OCR it, but this isn't 
possible without any preprocessing 
because of the clever way this book
and it's tables was printed.
I tried to do this in many ways - 
use filters and effects and their 
combinations in 3 graphical progs, 
tried to teach 2 different neural 
networks to do this (as I'm student of
artificial inteligence :o) and tried
to write about 15 different algorithms
to remove the background and keep the
text, but even thought no use :-(

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THE MAIN IDEA:
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So I'm putting this book on ftp as raw
scanned images for anyone who would 
like to play this game to the end. BUT
I wan't to start something like ONLINE
PROJECT:
- anyone who wants can download any 
pages and rewrite them manualy in a
.txt or .xls or in any reasonable file
format and send it to me. When this 
will be finished, I'll make a pdf file
of it, which will be lot smaller than 
these pictures.
I don't want anyone to rewrite it all,
but if there will be 10 volunteers, 
then when each will rewrite 15 pages, 
it will be all done... If 20 volunteers
then only about 8 pages each have to
rewrite, and so on....

Page numbering is increasing by 2 
because of 2 pages per scanned image.
Every cell of the table contains a 
hexa number XY and a symbol. That 
symbol is useless, so you won't have to
write it in any way...

Ok, dudes, GO ON AND REWRITE SOME SMALL
PART OF THE BOOK, YOU WILL HELP TO THE
ATARI COMMUNITY :o)

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List of pages already rewriten:
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 - 23 to 41 by Alex (lons_vex@gmx.de)

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      2.10.2004, Jookie/Satantronic
         mailto: jookie@szm.sk
       www.atari.sk/satantronic
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