Outside Hui and inside pfui!

Outside Hui and inside pfui!

Atari Inc .: Business is Fun (Paperback)

Customer Review

As I have looked forward as an avowed supporter Atari to this book! Finally Atari history as it really was. Told by those who were there. That the book is now times written in English, so you have to come to terms. 800 pages extent promise much. From the beginning, this book is designed in two parts. So to speak, before it went off with Atari to the Tramiel. In the second book which will be published later, will be at the start of Tramiels carried on until the next resurrection Ataris in of 2007.

- Here in front of me so is the first part -
I wanted to see ... The pictures that has never seen a human being and have been promised so faithfully. Images of buildings, contracts, people, equipment, designs, advertising and all the other nice things that have been forgotten or were never shown before. Yes! There they are, the photos ... IN BLACK AND WHITE?!?!?!? - I thought Animal House when I flipped through the book. All images in black / white not color, not grayscale, but in black / white! Namely, in what felt like two gradations. Namely, in black and white.

That can surely not be the seriousness of the manufacturer! Most images look more like black blocks as that could be anything seen in the pictures! I expected no color pictures on the price, but probably at least ordinary grayscale. There are pictures of the hardware as the 1050 Floppy and the image is so dark that you can not even recognize the floppy slot. (Page 712) Since people are shown on images from which you just can imagine the brilliant spectacle. The rest is black. Just as on page 114 at the bottom right. Supposedly a Coin-op concept. But nothing can be seen. But the extreme opposite there: On page 85 the call log in the Bushnell and Bear is brought into context. The writing is almost illegible. Which "smart" head has since forgotten the page readable / map with more contrast? Likewise, on page 296. It would only have a minimal effort with great effect.

Then page 406 below. Can anyone see anything there? On page 688, the image of James Morgan has been enlarged to 100% size of the book, the original (from the Internet) has about postage stamp size. Accordingly, it is contaminated by artifacts. The authors could have really steal from better sources from the Internet. Next to the picture of the prototype Major Havoc, which is really just a mash of black pixels. Can be seen on anything. It's incredible. The authors have used images from the Internet * * like crazy, while also qualitatively poorly executed. There are actually also images having a good grayscale conversion, but most of it is black Pixelbrei. So do not be seen or at least permeated by artifacts.

The softcover is the way in color! In super nice graphics with original Atari font.

Severely disappointed I started reading the. And there is a lot on offer: namely, the amount of free space between paragraphs! Here one would have determined 100 pages can be saved in order to use the money saved for better graphics. For the distances between the lines and the font size are again ok.

Something's probably got mixed up even when arrange the content. There is always something in between paged carelessly executed clapped paragraphs which are not ordered chronologically. Whatever that is.

Incidentally, there is no index or glossary and there is no "secondary" references and no images Index. But only one page "Contents" which lists the home pages of 12 chapters.

Conclusion:
I have been dealing for some time with the history of Atari.
Nevertheless, I can learn a lot about what was previously unknown. And there were a few pictures that I did not know. Overall, this book has me but not convinced. The quality of the images has led to further significant devaluation. Sensible grayscale and it would have been ok. But I can recommend the book only limited to those who want to squeeze even the last bit of "news" and put on the implementation of no value.

Edit:
After careful consideration, I have the score of 2 raised to 3 stars because the stories and other information were not enough incorporated in the evaluation.

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