That is probably the closest we're going to get, unless someone actually has the manual or did a color scan of it. Might possibly find it on ebay or...

Wow... just thought of it. Contacting LGR as he has a LOT of old games, near pristine with manuals and the like...

Oh, if I did I wouldn't have been so stingy as to look at this project and say "Nah, you figure it out even though I have the easy mode right here!"

But hey, never hurts to ask. The answer to the question you don't ask is ALWAYS no.

I have a physical English copy of the Albion manual and I've scanned the pages in question and included the images at the bottom of this post.

I've been planning to scan the whole manual and upload it here for people to use, so any advice regarding good software or techniques to use will be gratefully received. (I also have one or two more missing manuals that I want to upload)

I just want to say a big thanks to Stuff for the work you've put into this. I love manuals, especially many older ones that add to the experience of playing the game and it always bugs me when they are missing from games on gog.

Thank you sir! Those images are exactly what I needed. I have replaced the text in the manual with the exact text you have provided. and changed the links to the completed manual.

I used Photoshop to edit the scanned pages, saved the edited pages as psd's then jpg's, created a Word doc with the page size exactly the size of the manual scans (no margins) and imported the page jpgs in order. I then saved the completed Word doc as a PDF file to finish up. It helps to save each page scan as an individual psd for future editing if you have a defective copy to work from.

You're welcome and thanks for the images that gave me not only the correct text but also the transparency and size for the background image that I was just guessing at before. =)

Final manual link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo4uq14eo1ix577/AlbionManual.pdf?dl=0

Edit: Your scans are super clean with great vertical / horizontal alignment so you could probably skip saving as psd's and just edit the manual "center" fold shadow out on the scanned pages. =)

You might need to use a template psd on pages where a background image is continuous across both pages. Also I think you will find searching for the original manual images (if damaged) to be very time consuming. Some can only be obtained by taking screen shots in the actual game others may not be available at all.

Coolies!

[s]All that's left is... to get new screenshots and fix them in the manual (if you go that far). 1bit B&W doesn't convey images well :P[/s]

edit: Nevermind then!

Just looked at the supplied dropbox manual and it looks awesome!

Thanks for this great job, looks really good.

Thank you very much for the manual, mate. Thank you.