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Over the weekend, I battled the insumountable forces of Microsoft Word to format the DinkC Reference into a handy-sandy book format.

This has been a dream of mine for quite some time.

Right now it costs $11.77 to print, plus $4.00 shipping (for the USA, anyway). I ordered a copy for myself to see how it turned out. I'll probably end up adding a few more pages to space things out.

The content is pretty much DinkC4.chm, with a few grayscale screenshots sprinkled in. The cover is a full-color snapshot of Stonebrook/Windemere with some weird development stuff going on in the lower-right corner.

But... is anyone interested in buying a copy? I can think of a few other uses for it (and I can get fairly hefty discount if I buy in bulk).

Dink is a small community. I doubt that it would be worth it or in any way profitable. If you don't mind eating the cost, I'd guess 100 copies should be way too much.

Better to just post a PDF. Or better yet: HTML.

(Besides, sometime next year I'm gonna release a new version that, if my hubris would allow me to say, will wipe DinkC from the face of the earth.)

I may buy one, if only for the collector's value. C'mon, I've printed the original Dinkc.txt, tut1.txt, readme.txt, credits.txt, quotes.txt, some tut about dink.ini editing, a dinkc scripting tutorial from the old DMOD central (back then, dink.someone.net), whatsnew.txt, the making of mystery island, readme2.txt, develop.txt and last but not least Mike Snyder's huge D-Mod Author's FAQ. I have them still in the same cover. It'd complete my collection

On the other hand, I agree with toa. I doubt it would be profitable.

"Hubris"... long time not heard. I always thought it would translate into "hybris", but in Greek spelling it would be the same anyway

Profit wouldn't be a goal whatsoever. The Dink Network hosting costs are rather modest, and I have no immediate need nor desire for more green pieces of paper with funny symbols and old-looking dudes on them.

And I'm not sure if investing ~$860 in DinkC books would be a very good idea. They'd end up costing me $8.68 each if I bought 99 (including shipping), or $8.85 each if I bought 15.

I would buy it, if there weren't some good docs around already and if it were for sale in bookstores (which it isn't)...

I honestly never buy anything on the internet. I don't have the possibility to!

But anyways, this sounds pretty good. How many pages are there in the book and how big is its size? Or don't you know until you receive the copy?

PS.: I like it how you put effort in something you like. Hope the book sells (try to promote it a bit).

I'll buy it.

It clocked in at 159 pages.

I'll buy it if I ever get around to creating myself a bank account, and other stuff related to buying things online. The pimpness factor of such book would be very high.

But I wish the DinkC reference had more examples, something like

void load_map(string[49] map_dat, string[49] dink_dat);

won't tell much to someone without programming experience, for example.

Hmm, perhaps so It means the parameters are strings with max-length 49 so "mapname.dat" would be ok but something with 80 characters length wouldn't. I dunno, it's just the way many functions/methods are mentioned in many library-overviews.

You could write it like:

void load_map(filename "map.dat" (max-length 49), filename "dink.dat" (max-length 49));

but that's not as efficient as the current one..

The meaning of these things is in the DinkC chm. Before the explanation of all seperate functions.

Hey, I found an error. It says Dink's base_push by default is 320 - it's 310.

Eh, I don't think I've ever fully read the Dink Reference. If it's very well done, tough, I might buy a copy. Would you accept postal money orders?