I've seen many posts in the past asking for a decent printed manual so I'm pretty sure you'd get at least some takers for this idea.
I got the printed manual when I bought my copy of B3D but it hasn't exactly been indispensible! :) It has several pages missing and is hopelessly out of date. I guess that's the problem with a printed manual: it needs to be updated every time blitz is. IMO, BRL had little choice but to ditch offering a printed manual.
However, if you're really prepared to put the time and effort into producing one, I guess you could do it in a format that the pages could be printed and placed into a standard type clasp folder thing. Then you would only need to update certain pages where necessary which could be printed off to replace the out of date pages.
As for code, there's loads in the archives which is all public domain so you wouldn't even need to ask the authors' permission.
I got the printed manual when I bought my copy of B3D but it hasn't exactly been indispensible! :) It has several pages missing and is hopelessly out of date. I guess that's the problem with a printed manual: it needs to be updated every time blitz is. IMO, BRL had little choice but to ditch offering a printed manual.
However, if you're really prepared to put the time and effort into producing one, I guess you could do it in a format that the pages could be printed and placed into a standard type clasp folder thing. Then you would only need to update certain pages where necessary which could be printed off to replace the out of date pages.
As for code, there's loads in the archives which is all public domain so you wouldn't even need to ask the authors' permission.