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50%+ through scanning/editing ISSUE 01 of a rather uncommon SNES magazine. Expect it today/tomorrow ....... Any guesses which mag it is?

Just an update to advise that I have now made Rapidshare links available for PDF versions of almost all Analog Computing magazines submitted to this site to date. Last few are in the process of being uploaded at the present time.. ** UPDATE ** All magazines now have Rapidshare links. Now I will compile and upload the missing 21 issues for the complete set Just to advise that the PDF's do not included the thankyou page as I didn't scan the original pages personally and they are for use on a different site but I thought it important to make them available for the general masses as soon as possible given the original scanners allowed me to use their scans on that basis. The CBR's on direct download are standard Retromag fare with the thankyou page and when they become available via Megaupload I will happily remove the PDF links. In the meantime you have a choice of which one to grab

I appreciate the comments. It's nice to know someone else has an interest in the older glory days of Atari and Commodore when they dominated the gaming landscape .... especially in Europe and Australasia. I will be getting onto the Amiga stuff very soon. The big thing stopping me earlier was that the later issues were bigger than A4 so couldn't be easily scanned but I now have an A3 scanner so that is no longer an issue. So expect to see some in the coming weeks Oh ... and yeah .... I still have 5 Atari ST's of various models, an Atari 800XL and 130XE .... and while I sold off my Amiga 500 & 2000 long ago I still love what that machine could do. Pre-emptive multi-taking in a few hundred KB's at a time when DOS was it for PC's speaks volumes for their capabilities even now.

Just received another bundle of 12 Amiga magazines for scanning that I acquired off the local auction site. I think that means I have some 40-50 Amiga Format mags along with a few others to process. That's a bit of work coming up after I finish the Analog Computing's.....

Compiled and uploaded all but 6 issues of H. Frank Kowatari's Analog Computing magazine's to the site. Expect the last six in the next day or so. That leaves issues 1-22 missing. [uPDATE] I have just received permission from ThumpNugget who scanned the first 22 issues to make these available here as well. This allows us to have the complete collection of Analog Computing magazines for visitors to this site. Great news indeed. I have scanned 6 issues of my Antic magazine collection for the Atari 8-bit computers. Just need to clean them up so will get onto that soon. Won a 90+ magazine collection on a local auction site. Includes 33 Games master magazines dating back to 1998 and some Nintendo and Playstation mags but until I get them I cannot say exactly what is in the box.

Completed scanning of .... 80% completed cleaning up the scans etc. Expect it soon ....

The specs of this are ... http://www.brother-u...890CDW&tab=spec I think I read somewhere that with 300dpi colour scanning it takes 4 seconds to scan a page. It doesn't seem to have any appreciatiable warm up time either. I think it takes close to your 20 seconds though to scan A3 and be ready for the next. Haven't had a big enough play with it as yet. The big thing for me is scanning 2x A4 pages at one go PLUS the ability to scan oversize magazines. I have a lot of Amiga/Atari Format magazines that are larger than A4 in size so were unable to be easily scanned. Amiga World's are another where they made them almost square. What a pain to reproduce. This sorts those issues out once and for all.

Got my A3 scanner/printer yesterday. What a big bugger the A3 footprint makes these things. Haven't done much with it yet but I did scan a complete ANALOG issue in under 15 minutes which is great stuff indeed. Don't forget .... I haven't had a sheet feed scanner before today and I personally don't like cutting my magazines up unlike Phillyman. The incredible aging of these ANTIC issues means it'll be a few days while I clean it up as best as possible before releasing it. I am sure there will be something annoying about the device that will rear its ugly head. Who has heard of a perfect scanner after all. Like everything it will just be a case of working around any issues although it looks good so far.

Amiga Format Issue 002 completed & submitted ... I have just ordered a Brother MFC-6890CDW A3 all-in-one and pick it up later today. Once I have got the ANALOG scans out of the way I can start work on scanning the oversize Amiga/Superplay magazines and processing normal size mags 2 pages at a time so it should decrease the work time by almost half. Yippee !!!!

Magazine currently being scanned ... UPDATE: Also scanning Amiga Format Issue 2 .... 92/116 pages scanned and edited to date