Recently I went on a little scavenger hunt across the web looking for both volumes of Hands On DarkBASIC Pro. Mostly because I'm a sucker for old engines and wanted to learn DBPro for fun, and based on Digital Skills' HODBPro page (which is still up btw:
http://www.digital-skills.co.uk/dbpro.html), the books seem to comprehensively cover almost everything stock DBPro has to offer! Very useful for a noob.
There was a problem however... The books were nowhere to be found. Neither physical copy or .pdf. Not on Amazon, Ebay, ANYWHERE!
And so I had only one option left, email Digital Skills asking to buy both books in .pdf. Though I was not expecting a reply any form.
To my surprise, I now have both books in .pdf, and YOU can too.
Volume 1:
http://www.digital-skills.co.uk/DB8873194/HODBProVol1.pdf
Volume 2:
http://www.digital-skills.co.uk/HN726492/HODBPV2.pdf
You can also find companion material here:
http://www.digital-skills.co.uk/dbprodownloads.html
This is really cool of them to do, and I can't thank them enough.
Now, after you read both books, I heavily recommend that you purchase some of Digital Skills' other books, such as Hands On AppGameKit Studio Volumes 1 & 2, as well as Hands On C++. I certainly will!
Anyways, have a good day everyone.