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GamesMaster is a UK mag and most people that contribute here are US/Canadian citizens so don't have generally access to these. I have a lot and have released a couple here. Look in the UK misc section.
Welcome to Retromags, the vintage video game magazine archive
Welcome to Retromags, the vintage video game magazine archive. This site is all about digitally preserving video game magazines from yesteryear. You'll find hundreds of full issues to download and thousands of scanned magazine covers. Game magazines used to be incredibly important to the game industry, and while those days are long gone thanks to the Internet and World Wide Web, that does not mean those old magazines shouldn't be remembered and enjoyed today. This site allows you to do so easily and digitally. It's a nice alternative to having to have boxes of magazines stored in your house if that's something you don't want.
We are always looking for help, be it scanning or donating magazines, or contributing to the site in other forms. It costs nothing to be a member of this site. We do not sell anything on this site, and there are no ads. There are no profits made on this site; any money that is ever obtained by this site goes towards the cost of hosting the site.
A Note to Publishers and Content Owners
This site is set up to digitally preserve video game magazines from 1999 and earlier for current magazines. The rules for defunct magazines vary on a case-by-case basis. We do this because issues of these magazines are not readily available from publishers/content owners. While we don’t have legal permission, we operate in a way where we do not release anything that will reduce any potential income for you, or magazines that are available from you, nor do we release scans that are of a quality that may reflect poorly on you. So far this has worked, with several publishers/content owners basically ignoring our existence.
However, if you wish that we do not make content that you legally have ownership available on this site, just let us know and we will remove it. While we would prefer permission, we will fully oblige with your wishes concerning your content. This is a hobby we do out of passion and love for the video game magazines of yesterday, and not worth legal battles of any kind.
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Posted 13 May 2011 - 07:20 AM
So creating our own, or pointing towards others? I don't see the need for it either way, especially doing our own.
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Posted Yesterday, 01:24 PM
I noticed that the website is rather slow. Now theres not much I can help with to make retromags faster without diving into the codes.
But there are two tips I could give you.
1. Place all your internal css styles in a external sheet (The browser will download it and cache it so people won't redownload the same code everytime the visite a page)
2. create a htaccess file in your root dir protect it and let it cache your images,css,html,php etc.
Those two tips will make this website a lot faster believe it ore not.
Also the downloads hosted by retromags, will slowdown the webpage when lost of people are downloading at the sametime.
So the best way to counter that is by creating a speed limit for downloads.
But there are two tips I could give you.
1. Place all your internal css styles in a external sheet (The browser will download it and cache it so people won't redownload the same code everytime the visite a page)
2. create a htaccess file in your root dir protect it and let it cache your images,css,html,php etc.
Those two tips will make this website a lot faster believe it ore not.
Also the downloads hosted by retromags, will slowdown the webpage when lost of people are downloading at the sametime.
So the best way to counter that is by creating a speed limit for downloads.
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Posted Yesterday, 05:54 PM
All CSS and page coding is handled by the IPB software that this site runs on. I am not about to go moving code around because that would most certainly mess things up.
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Posted Yesterday, 06:11 PM
E-Day, on 08 February 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:
All CSS and page coding is handled by the IPB software that this site runs on. I am not about to go moving code around because that would most certainly mess things up.
Ah I see I thought you coded things yourself.
Yeah then your best of with not moving code around unless you really know what your doing.
But still you could make a htaccess file in the root from your website with the following lines:
<Files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all </Files> <ifModule mod_php4.c> php_value zlib.output_compression 16386 </ifModule> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/css <FilesMatch ".(html|htm)$"> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=43200" </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf|htaccess)$"> Header add "Cache-Control" "max-age=604800" </FilesMatch>
But its up to you if your not really sure about it then just ignore my post.
