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Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:25 pm
by oldcomputr
litody wrote:Pledged :D

I really hope this gets funded as it looks stunning. There have been lots of retro books recently and it is about time the VIC got it's own publication. Good luck with the campaign.
English Invader wrote:Backed.
Thanks for the pledge. Yes the VIC really deserves some love, it's all about the 64 or the Spectrum...

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 3:55 am
by Judge Drokk
I'm in..!

I think we should all tweet and FB it till it's backed........ and beyond.

He's doing it for us..... and others like us.

Lets not let him down. :)

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:16 am
by oldcomputr
Judge Drokk wrote:I'm in..!

I think we should all tweet and FB it till it's backed........ and beyond.

He's doing it for us..... nd others like us.

Lets not let him down. :)
Thanks for the support, and for every tweet and facebook post :-)

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:50 am
by Mayhem
oldcomputr wrote:I've seen some time ago the Australian versions on the Internet archive, in my opinion they're really ugly :-)
The sky is falling Mole attack is there some other?
Yeah, they are a bit different heh. I own both of those, and also Australian sleeves for Clowns and Star Battle. I also own a much different UK artwork for Radar Rat Race, it's like a proper painting with realistic looking mice, rats and cats. I'll see if I can take a shot of all three for you to have a look at out of interest :)

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:12 am
by Judge Drokk
Give it a re-tweet from here...

Some top-re-weeets from my original tweet have so pushed it out to

more than 30,000 followers.!

https://twitter.com/JudgeDrokk/status/7 ... 3520547841

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:29 am
by English Invader
Is this book going to be hardcover or paperback? I haven't found this question asked or answered anywhere.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:04 am
by oldcomputr
Mayhem wrote:
oldcomputr wrote:I've seen some time ago the Australian versions on the Internet archive, in my opinion they're really ugly :-)
The sky is falling Mole attack is there some other?
Yeah, they are a bit different heh. I own both of those, and also Australian sleeves for Clowns and Star Battle. I also own a much different UK artwork for Radar Rat Race, it's like a proper painting with realistic looking mice, rats and cats. I'll see if I can take a shot of all three for you to have a look at out of interest :)
I've got the different artwork for Radar ratrace - it will be in the book as a double page poster. For that one I say "creepy".

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:10 am
by oldcomputr
English Invader wrote:Is this book going to be hardcover or paperback? I haven't found this question asked or answered anywhere.
It depends on the total of English + Italian copies. Most probably, the Italian version will be paperback and the English version will be Hardback, but I'm not 100% sure so I haven't specified it.
Do you think that this could be an issue? This is my first KS project, I don't want to promise features that I can't do, but I want to be 100% honest and transparent.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:02 pm
by Judge Drokk
Some KS book projects offer a choice of both hard and soft cover ...

... but soft is fine if thats the best way to get the book made. At least in my opinion.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:57 pm
by merman
oldcomputr wrote:
merman wrote:Good luck with the book!
Thanks :-)
If you are interested I have contact with some ex-Commodore people including Michael Tomczyk and Albert Charpentier.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 2:03 pm
by oldcomputr
merman wrote:If you are interested I have contact with some ex-Commodore people including Michael Tomczyk and Albert Charpentier.
I'm already in touch with Michael Tomczyk, but I'd love to ask Al Charpentier if he'd like to contribute to the book.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:37 pm
by English Invader
oldcomputr wrote:
English Invader wrote:Is this book going to be hardcover or paperback? I haven't found this question asked or answered anywhere.
It depends on the total of English + Italian copies. Most probably, the Italian version will be paperback and the English version will be Hardback, but I'm not 100% sure so I haven't specified it.
Do you think that this could be an issue? This is my first KS project, I don't want to promise features that I can't do, but I want to be 100% honest and transparent.
Just do the best you can with the resources that are available. That's all we ask. If paperback is the best way for everyone to get a fair deal (including you), that's fine. Hardback would be great if it's economically viable but it's not the end of the world if it doesn't happen.

Don't promise anything unless you're 110% sure you can see it through. The KS community is notoriously unforgiving when it comes to broken promises.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:13 pm
by akator
I'm in. It looks about 25% to the goal so far. It would be cool to see this book funded :)

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:07 am
by orion70
Added to the group :)
Hopefully this project will come to life. Optimistically, with 27 days to go, it will.

Re: VIC 20 book on Kickstarter

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:47 am
by PhotoJim
Do you know how many copies would make hardcover versions viable? If you do and the existing price is still adequate, you could make it a stretch goal.