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Here's a PDF version of the Beta 14 manual, and booklet version (print duplex, short-edge binding, staple and fold).

... and here's an updated PDF for Beta 8.1.

Here are PDFs of the Beta 7 manual, in normal and booklet format. Per the previous posting, the normal format is centered left/right (but the page numbers still toggle left/right). As before, I tweaked the manual.txt to Markdown format, used pandoc to convert to PDF, and generated the booklets with Cheap Impostor, but pshacks would also work.

I've converted the Cogmind manual into both PDF and PDF booklet forms, for folks (like me) who like to have a paper manual alongside my roguelike games.

The PDF is straightforward, but the booklet needs to be printed duplex, with "short-edge binding" to be ready to staple in the middle and become a manual.

Enjoy!
Phragmented
(ps: I used pandoc to do the conversion, with only minimal changes to manual.txt)

I tried Cogmind on Crossover on my other MacOS machine, which is a Hackintosh tower, and I'm seeing perfect behavior, with no white flashes or other issues, so the one problem I'm seeing is machine-specific. Oddly, I tried manually setting both the integrated and discrete GPUs, and got the white flashing behavior with both settings. Off to research more possibilities.

I just now tried the WineBottler approach. Very slick! Unfortunately, I see the following misbehaviors on my machine: 1) still getting the fairly frequent full-screen white flashes. 2) the F1 key (for bringing up the menu) doesn't work. I saw this latter behavior when I tried to run Cogmind.exe inside of a Windows XP bottle in Crossover. For some reason, I'm only getting the Fn keys to work in Windows 7 or Windows 8 Wine environments (on Crossover).

Maybe both of these issues are local to my machine - I'll try it on my home machine this weekend. I'm on latest Yosemite on a 2014 MacBook Pro.

I've tried it with Crossover (a commercial Wine), and the first launch worked great for me. My subsequent runs have a serious problem with frequent full-screen white flashes. I haven't tracked the problem down yet.