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I'm not certain, why you are investing this insane amount of time in creating these books, but it's surely not to get filthy rich.

1st: about the books themselves. Yes, they are "just" copy and paste jobs, but it's obvious how much work and effort you put into it and the results are truly excellent. You are doing an incredible job.

2nd: While you may not get rich as Musk by selling this stuff for pennies, I'd just like to mention that: I) a lot of people truly value what you are doing. You may not hear that often enough, but it s like that. II) you are doing a incredible job in preserving the memory about these old games for the future. We already lost so much information about historical books, movies and music (not talking about the library of Alexandria). It's a tragedy. YOU aid our(mankind's) effort so that this is not (or only to a lesser degree, thinking of online-only games) going to happen to video games, by condensing and preserving available information in this way.

I'd just like to personally thank you for doing this. Not enough people do that. What you do here is (in a slightly different way) as important to mankind as programming open source software. Thank you.

3rd: I'd like to wish YOU a merry Xmas and happy new year. :-D

Best regards

An admirer of your work.

Personal annotation:

If you don't know where to continue (IF you choose to do so), the PC Engine might be a logical choice. Some alternative suggestions are:

Arcade Games 1980-1984, Sharp X68000, PC-98 or PSP.

If these library sizes are kind of deterring: the PC-FX, 3DO, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Sega 1000 or CD-i have comparatively small libraries.

And then there are of course also those already forgotten systems (at least outside of non-specialist circles) like the Odyssey II, RCA Studio II, Arcadia 2001, Bally Astrocade or the Fairchild Channel F.

If you need some help, I might be able to contribute,

DaddaRuleKonge1 year ago

Hi.

Wow! That's more praise than I feel worthy of :O Thank you very much. Your words means a lot to me.
You are right in that these PDFs don't earn very much. I am always interested in what internet creators earn, and maybe some want to know what I have made on these. I have made a little over $400-after tax-since February, which I think is actually very good for something like this. I feel pride in that there are people willing to pay $10 for a PDF I made/copy/pasted/whatever. I find it crazy that someone find it worth so much.
The reason I make these PDFs is that I like it. I like reading up on a system and searching for information about it, editing and designing the layout of the pages. It does take a very long time though, and I'm not good at time managing stuff in my home life. I often get very obsessed when I'm doing a project and it eats up much of my time (I'm similar when it comes to video games, which is why I steer clear of online games :p I only play games with an ending).

I agree with the Alexandria library. Insane to think on what kind of wonders and information we lost.

I have promised (for the eight times probably haha) that this was my last book project. I hope I can keep the promise this time :p but it's very difficult when I get the itch (no pun) to start another project. A lot of the consoles you listed have been on my mind. I would love to continue from the FM-7 to other Japanese home computers, but they are a lot of work and because I don't know the language a lot of mistakes will occur. The PSP would also be fun, or the DS or Wii. But their libraries are huge. And the "forgotten systems" you lists have also been on my mind.

Thank you very much for your words and have a very great Christmas and new year!
From Daniel :)

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