Dramatic SFB: how do you get electronic versions of the rule books?

[Charles Carroll]

Well they send you to their Electronic version site...which has everything
you and I use on it.

http://www.starfleetgames.com/ebook.shtml#SFBC

Chuck

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 2:47 PM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Back to topic for epic face palm
> The main place you can NOT get electronic version's of the paper documents
> is the ADB website.
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:41 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe we should take this to discord hehe. Instead of cluttering up this
>> thread
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I vaguely remember Ogre....that was a kind of tank? Thing?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:38 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> lol all the talking about WH23 is making me want to play OGRE or carwars
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:35 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am sure it does lol. Just was saying that what I use.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:33 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have just been on drivethruRPG so long for other game systems
>>>>>> mostly RPG's. It has support for more systems, publishers & 3rd party
>>>>>> publishers. its a nice place to have all your downloads (for me) in one
>>>>>> place vs guess which store do I have the digital files. Drivethrurpg also
>>>>>> has a nice downloader program that keeps all your files up to date incase
>>>>>> it changes. Obviously this isn't an issue with SFB for the most part. The
>>>>>> downloader isn't perfect though it wants to keep all the files in one place
>>>>>> vs organized via game system etc. WH23 is also very limited on the systems
>>>>>> & publishers it has which of course isn't a problem if all you want is SFB.
>>>>>> also there is wargaming vault which is part of DrivethruRPG as a
>>>>>> sister site it mostly is for wargames and ADB is easy to find.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/3528/Amarillo-Design-Bureau?filters=40110_0_0_0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> all the sites work fine for SFB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:17 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just use WH23 myself. It has always worked flawlessly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:16 AM Don Lavanty via SFBdrama <
>>>>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> they can also be found on drivethruRPG and their other site.
>>>>>>>> wargaming??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:14 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I just wish they would finish putting all the rule books in PDF
>>>>>>>>> form
>>>>>>>>> its easier to have 7 PDF's open that are searchable than having 7
>>>>>>>>> paper books that are not.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:05 PM Matthew via SFBdrama <
>>>>>>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> > I'm guessing you have electronic sfb rule books as you copy and
>>>>>>>>>> paste
>>>>>>>>>> > the rules so quickly.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I went the hard route: Scanned and OCRd my entire collection
>>>>>>>>>> (SSDs and
>>>>>>>>>> Rules). Then converted them to HTML format (with links). Was
>>>>>>>>>> truck
>>>>>>>>>> driving, so had plenty of time for tedious "Spend an hour here
>>>>>>>>>> spellchecking and formatting", "Spend and hour there doing the
>>>>>>>>>> same".
>>>>>>>>>> Set up scripts to handle the gross-adjustments on the images and
>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>> convert bits of text into other bits of text.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The result is that I have most of the rules modules in a 75M zip
>>>>>>>>>> file,
>>>>>>>>>> with all rules hyperlinked, searchable, and C&P-able. SSDs are
>>>>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>>>>> 325MB, in a printer-friendly format. All are downloadable and
>>>>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>>>>> readable from computers not-not-my-own. Protected from
>>>>>>>>>> very-casual
>>>>>>>>>> internet gurus, so I have DMCA cover. A very nice setup, if I say
>>>>>>>>>> so myself.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The downside is that I am not truck driving now. New material is
>>>>>>>>>> added
>>>>>>>>>> *very* slowly. Module C6 I got when it came out, has been
>>>>>>>>>> integrated.
>>>>>>>>>> Module C4 and G3 I have had for about 2 years and both are not
>>>>>>>>>> fully
>>>>>>>>>> integrated, but parts of both are.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --Matt
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