Was amused to see in the first review the comment that it was 'a bit disorganized'.
This reminded me of the 'door stop' books of the 90s, those great thick things that weighed about 3 lbs. In the early days they tended to be worth every penny, but toward the end of the decade the publishers seemed to have gotten some kind of gold-rush mentality, because while there was a sudden proliferation of these hefty tomes, the quality definitely became hit or miss, and it became work to find the gems.
Door stop books. Heh heh. Michael Abrash’s “Graphics Programming Black Book”[0] comes to mind. That thing weighs a ton. (I also didn’t realize how pricey it has gotten in the used market! Yikes!)
Yes. I owned it during the 90th. The only problem is, that it is in German. Over at archive.org I only found torrent images for the enclosed CD-ROM, which features source code as well as a couple of great demos from Iguana, Dust, Surprise and others.
Yay! One of the unexpected benefits of releasing a lot of source code for our work back then, is that we can now find it again on the internet [1] - most of it would have been (and was) lost otherwise :)
Write to the Archive.org folks, perhaps? These two items are clearly both up there somewhere, and they need to be linked together as being part of a single release. The issue of books/publications with enclosed media (floppies, CD) is also quite general, well beyond that one case.
