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sav2880

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With the influx of new people visiting the site for a myriad of reasons (mostly due to the now good fortune of having one racketboy find our works and now link back over to this site), many people are coming in looking for magazines. I wanted to let everyone know a little more about this and how they can help Retromags out:

First of all ... HOW CAN YOU HELP OUT?

The main way is simple ... become a premium member and help our community grow! Not only does Retromags.com strive to be a group dedicated to magazine releasing, but it also strives to be a great community of users who enjoy the games of days' past and talking about them, thus the extra emphasis on community items like the arcade, and Forum RPG system.

You can gain access to even more great things on this site in one of two ways:

1) Subscribe to the site. The donations all go directly to purchasing more magazines for scanning, hosting expenses, and purchasing site additions to help make the process of scanning and editing more palatable for more people. Once you've logged in, go to the "My Controls" link and then you will see a link for "Purchase Paid Subscriptions".

There's an offer right now to help with collaboration software that allows you to subscribe for $7 for 6 months. That's not much more then what you would have paid for a real issue on the newsstand, and it goes to help this site maintain and keep up its great work.

2) Participate! All users who post 100 times (that's a lot of posts yes, but the more someone posts, the more people reply, and the more community grows) gain access to the Magazine Section of the forum and gain many of the benefits that subscribed users get too.

That leads to ... WHERE ARE THE GOODS?

The magazines are NOT hosted on the site itself. There's a lot of reasons for this, mostly because of not wanting to get Nintendo all hot and bothered (although I am sure they appreciate the free press for their soon-to-be Virtual Console products!). But, the goods are out there. Here's how to get them:

* Premium users get direct links via available sharing sites to new releases and issues already released through the premium user forum (which you get from posting or subscribing). We don't mind if you share these links on your own sites (because it's not our bandwidth), but PLEASE credit where it is due and link back to RetroMags.

* Issues are always available using mininova.org's torrent search site, just search for the magazine you want or for RetroMags. There are also a lot of torrents available on the invite-only site Gay-Porn.

* You can also use Newsgroups! Those of you who are not familiar with newsgroups, there are great tutorials out there on how to use them to download available files. For those who are familiar, keep an eye on the "alt.binaries.emulators.misc" group to find both current and past releases.

You'll notice these are in a CBR format ... WHAT THE HECK IS CBR?

It's actually a RAR file renamed to CBR for compatiblity with a tool called cdisplay, a comic book reader application. It's easy to use, and you can download it mirrored at:

http://www.sav2880.net/files/store/CDisplay_setup.zip

(Don't link to that from another site, the link is subjet to change)

And finally ... HOW CAN I HELP GET THE WORD OUT?

* Mention us on your site or blog! We don't mind too if you want to mirror the releases, just please make sure to give credit to RetroMags and provide a link so that your readers find out where it all began.

* Help us with the dirtywork! If you are interested in scanning your own magazines or fanzines to help Retromags, or helping edit scans for distribution, then contact Phillyman and he can help coordinate. The more help, the better we can be, and it's greatly appreciated.

Our forum software has a lot of stuff as a part of it, and while it can be a bit unwieldy sometimes, it's also quite powerful and has lots of features, and hopefully lots of additions to help build the Retromags community and have fun too, so if you get lost in the way, feel free and let us know so we can help you out.

If you have any questions further, feel free and post in our forums, or contact Phillyman for more details.

Thanks for stopping in, be sure and have some fun while you're here! :)

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