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Retrograde: I found my copy of the manual from the DOS version I had back in the day, it's not in the greatest of shape but still serviceable. Here are some pictures of it, i just came across a printer/scanner someone was throwing away, if i can manage to get it to run I'll see about scanning the manual in (it's only 61 pages so not as thick as some may remember but still pretty decent). Maybe GOG can include it on the site if the quality is up to snuff.

http://imgur.com/13XNp1m
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http://imgur.com/r71f7bY
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T-Prime: Any progress? :)
Yours looks really 'serviceable'. Clean cover can be found.

Got the game here in the German edition. Been playing around a bit with the manual in Photoshop Elements, but in the end decided to stop, too much hassle with the layout. Would be faster if I redid it all in Word. German Manual I have has rather small low resolution photos.

If I had high resolution scans of the images in the manual (600 dpi) I could put it together in a short time. Have a good scanner here, got the English text as a .txt file. Needs grammar checking and the full text is written with barely a period/paragraph now and then, annoying to read it, but just copy & paste and reading to do. Still faster than typing everything by myself or even translating it all back from German to English.

If I took the images I have, the quality would be pretty low. Wish somebody could send me that manual in English, then I could work on it, scan all the pages, clean the images, if necessary. In the end I'd could create a PDF from it again. I'd use a different font, since the one EA used is copy right protected, but still looks like Arial / Arial Bold. While at it I could also change the size of the pages, to standard size, would be nicer to print out. I don't like switching back and forth between game and PDF viewer.
I've got the original English manual for the game along with the pull out leaflet specific for the Mac version. It's in pretty good nick as I've always kept my game's manuals tucked away: Here's a pic: i.imgur.com/7bFCKau.jpg (copy and paste that into your address bar since for some stupid reason I can't post links).

I could put it online if people wanted it that badly, though the one wpegg has linked to in the original post is a pretty faithful transfer so I don't really need to bother.
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Xandrosa: I've got the original English manual for the game along with the pull out leaflet specific for the Mac version. It's in pretty good nick as I've always kept my game's manuals tucked away: Here's a pic: i.imgur.com/7bFCKau.jpg (copy and paste that into your address bar since for some stupid reason I can't post links).

I could put it online if people wanted it that badly, though the one wpegg has linked to in the original post is a pretty faithful transfer so I don't really need to bother.
It's good of you to offer. Personally I think a manual such as that should be added, would you mind contacting support and offering it for scanning? We'd all like to hear the response, it's something that would really add to this game.

EDIT: Marking as solution, as this has been outstanding for a while, and many have made excellent contributions.
Post edited August 08, 2015 by wpegg
edit: nevermind the manual I found was for the Windows 95 CD-ROM version that basically just told you how to launch the game from Win95 and make floppy boot disks and access the PDF manual that installs with the game from CD.

Maybe someone else will have better luck since none of the solutions on the page really do it for me. The link in the OP is for the Amiga version.
Post edited September 11, 2015 by vulchor
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Xandrosa: I've got the original English manual for the game along with the pull out leaflet specific for the Mac version. It's in pretty good nick as I've always kept my game's manuals tucked away: Here's a pic: i.imgur.com/7bFCKau.jpg (copy and paste that into your address bar since for some stupid reason I can't post links).

I could put it online if people wanted it that badly, though the one wpegg has linked to in the original post is a pretty faithful transfer so I don't really need to bother.
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wpegg: It's good of you to offer. Personally I think a manual such as that should be added, would you mind contacting support and offering it for scanning? We'd all like to hear the response, it's something that would really add to this game.

EDIT: Marking as solution, as this has been outstanding for a while, and many have made excellent contributions.
Yea I will. Sorry I've been ultra busy over the last few months, haven't really had time to do it yet. I will hopefully have my office redecorated in the next month or so then I can get it sorted.
this aint solved
I'd still be interested as well, optimally an English version of both the manual as well as box art!

Just tried to google, but I only find every single console version instead ...
I know it's been just over four years since I said I'd get this sorted, but the problem I have and continue to have is the fact there is no way for me to actually scan the booklet to digitize it; I don't have a scanner, and I don't know anyone that has one either. As I said before, the text document that wpegg added a link to in his original post is a pretty faithful reproduction of the manual.
So apparently I posted in this thread back in 2014 and then completely forgot to follow through on my manual!
I've been trying to get in touch with GoG support so I can send them my scanned manual but haven't found a good way to do that and their chat bot isn't useful at all. So I'm uploading the manual to archive.org and hopefully if people search google for the PC Theme Park Manual they'll find this thread or the archive.org link.

For those of you who want the manual (and it's a necessity given how hard and confusing this game can be), you can download it here: https://archive.org/details/theme-park-scanned-manual