DC Ebook: Alice in Wonderland

Our good friends over at DC Evolution have posted this excellent and rather unique release news.[br][br] Here is another novelty release from DC Evolution made by DCDayDreamer. It is the first e-book for the Dreamcast containing the classic Alice in Wonderland. This time we used the DC Tonic menu to bring you this unique release. In this way we could bring you the complete book including the original illustrations made by John Tenniel for Alice in Wonderland. To make the ebook complete we added some classical background music.[br][br]For more information, screenshots and downloads see the DC Ebook: Alice in Wonderland page! [br][br]Excellent Idea :)

is there not a legal problem with this, giveing away someones book for free without premission? (not trying to start a fight, just wondering)

Darksaviour69: If you downloaded the image and read you'll find all the info on the CD.
OK, so I'm presuming your not going to, so...

The book was written in 1865 (yes it's that old), copyrights on the book are no longer a concern, same for the original art (also included). There's plenty of info on the web if you want to check.

Now if I release my DC EBook: Lord Of The Rings...
that would be a different matter (and a 400mb plus download) ;).

ahh i was wondering myself but i knew that dcevolution wouldnt do any dodgy stuff.

makes you wonder what other quality ebooks are of no copyright concern for future releases for dcevo.

This really has a nice presentation. Ebooks definately need more attention. Any chance of doing more of them? I would love to see an Ebook of the Bible. Since it doesn't take up much room it would be really nice to have more than one translation of the Bible on a DC Ebook as well.

Thanks for the Alice book I like it.

yeah i thought that there was a time limit copy right, just making sure. good idea never thought of it, we should release the passion of christ ebook, pig-back the movie ;D

any other cool books that are along the same freeware lines?

all of Shakespeare ;D

The possibilites here are amazing and Kudos to DCEvolution again for such a unique release. Simply amazing :)

Well, another personal favourite and all time classic is 'The Wizard of OZ'.
I've got a version similar to the Alice in Wonderland release, but it'd need some reworking for a DC Evolution release if there was enough interest.

too right there is :)

do it :)

can you get spanish/french/german versions of the film too ?

[quote author=DCDayDreamer link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=0#9 date=04/21/04 at 19:23:08]Well, another personal favourite and all time classic is 'The Wizard of OZ'.
I've got a version similar to the Alice in Wonderland release, but it'd need some reworking for a DC Evolution release if there was enough interest. [/quote]

Wow, there's nice stuff comin'!

I'd be interested in the "Wizard of OZ" release!

Reading this stuff should really help me to improve my English ;)

Ah! Here is the discussion of this wonderfull release. A real advantage for ebooks on the Dreamcast is the possibility to add just the right music to the book. I don't see that happening on the PC or a Palm.

Kuddos to DCDayDreamer who really worked long on getting this good. The DC Tonic menu was the perfect choice to do this, he even tried Dream Inducer for this project.

The DC Tonic menu is this open source can you compile it or is it ripped. Ive never seen it before.. i think it was a big download once i could not get.


Any way in a way whisper secrets is an interactive E book of a story i wrote.

Maybe just me but reading a tv screen hurts the hell out of my eyes :(

Its funny but since i started using my GBASP and a flash cart ive never done so much reading.

I prefer it to a book.

The DC Tonic was not recompiled. We used the existing files and to be sure we could use this, we asked Dan Potter for permission.

And a good 100 Hz tv doesn't hurt your eyes when reading. Maybe it's also because I'm very used reading text on a tv trough the many subtitles we have here.

Ok Anwser a lot.

check out Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ they have like 10000 free ebooks for download

Troy

wow neat :)

ill go check :)

[quote author=Skyhawk link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=15#16 date=04/28/04 at 23:28:58]The DC Tonic was not recompiled. We used the existing files and to be sure we could use this, we asked Dan Potter for permission.

And a good 100 Hz tv doesn't hurt your eyes when reading. Maybe it's also because I'm very used reading text on a tv trough the many subtitles we have here.[/quote]

Is the DC Tonic available (for download/buying) anywhere?

Thx to DCDayDreamer and all of you at DCEvolution!

This is really very well done! :)

[quote author=Christuserloeser link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=15#20 date=05/01/04 at 05:04:16]

Is the DC Tonic available (for download/buying) anywhere?[/quote]

It's a biggun':

http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/dctonic.shtml

WTF :o

I've read so much good about it... Â*:-[

...and it was always there :'(

damn!

BTW: Really love that cat!

does ztnet still allow the download?

one of my reeasons for having this site was to ensure another good mirror for homebrew stuff.

Nope, looks like the DC Tonic downloads aren't working, which is weird because I've been upping stuff that's over 15MB to the FTP & those downloads are still working fine. Guess I might need to do some sneaky file splitting. ;)

Would be nice since I am still interested! 8)

Alrighty, the split DCTonic DJ image is up, comes in at just under 70MB.

http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/dctonic.shtml

That's Was a problem why i could never download it before.

It's about time you guys caught up with a bit of classic DC homebrew software - download and enjoy.

DCTonic is a 'must have' for DC enthusiasts 8).

Oh! Thanx Dr._Zoidberg ;D

I can`t believe it!


[quote author=Ian_micheal link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=15#27 date=05/03/04 at 00:17:12]
That's Was a problem why i could never download it before.[/quote]


Yeah, maybe me neither. :'(


There are a lot of ppl out there who never tried this, I guess! Shouldn`t this get a newspost: "DC Tonic rereleased"?


Anyway: Thank you very much, I`m gonna try it out tonight!

yeah worth the download, lots of interesting info etc.

;D It's so cool to have it! Today I've played Tryptonite again! What a great game! I can't wait for the final version ;D

@ anyone who doesn't know what DCTonic is: Please give it a try! It rocks Â*8)

Download the files here without looking at the pics over at DCHomebrew.org :)

http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part01.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part02.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part03.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part04.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part05.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part06.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part07.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/djug...nic.part08.rar

Burn and enjoy!


Chris

did everyone forget about Bloom day. what about that book now that would be a challenge. what's that authors name ____ joyce?

:)Glad you're enjoying the book Curt, who knows the sequel might be made one day ;).

Bloom Day?

[quote author=DCDayDreamer link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=30#34 date=06/19/04 at 16:56:15] :)Glad you're enjoying the book Curt, who knows the sequel might be made one day ;).
[/quote]That would be sweet

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Bloom Day?

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I believe he was actually referring to the book Ulysses by James Joyce. For some reason, some people refer to that novel as "Bloomsday", which is addressed in this quote from Amazon.com

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which some friends sent him in honor of `Bloomsday,' as the day of Ulysses was already called

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I don't think Ulysses could be done, though, because I don't believe it is public domain. James Joyce is a twentieth century author, and the novel was published in 1922. I don't know whether that means it's PD or not, but I would assume it's not.
I heard a piece on NPR (National Public Radio) the other day on this book. Apparently it is quite a classic. It is currently being made into a book on tape, with a huge cast of people (almost like a radio drama, I think). It apparently uses a very unique dialect (not as much so as Clockwork Orange, but the dialect and Joyce's method of writing make it a difficult read), and is a modern-day version of The Oddyssey.
I am guessing this would be an incredibly large project, though, because the book on tape is supposedly 49 hours long.

Oh - and I just realized that the sequel to Alice In Wonderland is called Through The Looking Glass (can't believe I forgot that).
Anyway - I remember watching a TV movie of Alice In Woderland when I was a kid, and it included Through The Looking Glass. That was a freaky story when I was a kid. I don't know if it still would be or not. It would be interesting to see (methinks it's time to head to the library to see if there is an audio book of Through The Looking Glass, so I can listen to it on my way to and from work).

Of course, if this e-book thing starts to take off, and someone figures out some sort of template to make it easy to create one, it would be cool to see some Orwell books added to the library as well (although, as mentioned above when speaking of Ulysses, there may be copyright issues with Orwell's novels as well).

I think it would be cool to see the sequel to Alice In Wonderland (The Jabberwock, or whatever it was called). This e-book is really cool. I am really enjoying reading this book on my Dreamcast.

[quote author=DCDayDreamer link=board=homebrew;num=1082398173;start=30#34 date=06/19/04 at 16:56:15]
Glad you're enjoying the book Curt, who knows the sequel might be made one day ;)[/quote]

That would be fantastic!

And I agree with Curt, there should be a template for this (maybe comparable to SBInducer) so anyone could do a similar thing.

Chris