Phillyman

3 hours ago, scott728 said:

When downloading, I receive the following Windows Defender virus threat warning. Haven't had this occur on any other magazine downloads in last 1+ years. 

"Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml"

webfile: C:\Users\Scott\Downloads\PSExtreme Issue 51 (February 2000).cbr|https://seedbox.retromags.com:19918/Retromags%20Collection%202024/PSExtreme%20Issue%2051%20(February%202000).cbr|pid:11480,ProcessStart:133575793801830151

 

 

Very odd, I downloaded it and ran it thru here and it comes back clean.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/472b96147aab2f248852536fdd75113954490eef7860f63f9d37743e32d0de56

Box H1 on my Inventory sheet is going to be chopped up and scanned this week. Anything already preserved will be listed for sale in the Retromags store or set aside for blindboxes.

3 hours ago, PixelBoy said:

That sounds nice.

I think more magazines from all over the world is a good idea. A while back I was actually trying to find some Swedish game magazines for a reference in something I was doing, and all I could find was a (presumably) incomplete list of magazines, with no actual issues anywhere.

I hope the lack of responses here isn't a sign of lack of interest in this. I'm not sure if this project is going on anymore, as I couldn't even find that Twitter account (but that could be just my bad social media skills, I'm not active in those things).

But assuming and hoping the work is still going on: lycka till Hanna!

 

I am all for magazines from around the world. Its just I dont read the language and its hard for us to get our hands on them. But if someone can provide a starting point...

• Name of Magazine
• How many issues.....even if approx
• Month and Year of each issue

We can stand up a database section for it and a gallery section, and start putting together data and grabbing cover images.

Just now, dablais said:

Interesting offer!   Mais je crois que je vais passer mon tour! 

Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da?

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

9 hours ago, kitsunebi said:

Is your interest more in the "very bland, very technical" Yugoslavian take on 80s computer tech, or the "ravishing Eastern Bloc Beauties straddling computer hardware" on the covers?  Or is the combination of the two your personal fantasy fetish?  Slavic hotties tying you down and whispering tech support in your ear?  "Have you tried turning it off and on again, Ljubavnik?"

No comment!

But I think I found where IA found the ones posted on their site

http://pc.sux.org/indexRA.html

I still require it!

Game Players Encyclopedia Of Nintendo Hints And Strategies For All The Top Games

Quote

Računari was a computer magazine of the former Yugoslavia which lasted from 1984 until the late 1990s – surviving the economic turbulence and wars of the 1980s-90s, and even outlasting the country itself. The title simply means “computers” in Bosnian – and its content was just that: very bland, very technical, nothing flashy… but its covers were another matter entirely. Despite the very low-key tech content, the guys at Računari decided to put some spice on just about every cover. Nearly every issue featured a ravishing Eastern Bloc Beauty straddling computer hardware.

I am reaching out to ANYONE who has these magazines! If anyone has even one of these magazines, please send it into me for preservation. We need to preserve this magazine! If you send just 1 of these I will bump your account to Lifetime Patron. Someone somewhere has some of these, and I need to get as many of them preserved as possible!

1 hour ago, E-Day said:

It's so hard...

Just now, Areala said:

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58 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

Yeah, I have no idea how you do it.  I realize most of the mags I scan are more pages than everyone else's, but even if I was scanning shorter mags, I couldn't edit 2 per day like you've been doing.  Once I get home from work, my free time is pretty limited - I get maybe an hour before dinner and an hour after.  That's not much time for working on mags, even if I DID want to spend my every available second doing so.  So, however you're managing it, hats off to you.

Phillyman's WIP tells a different story.  This is a man that works in spurts of intensity.  He might go months without so much as farting in the general direction of his scanner, but when he catches the scanning bug, watch out! Or rather, E-Day better watch out!

 

Ha, I also am HORRIBLE about updating this thread. I am still trying to find the energy to go into the MagDB and mark all these as "scanning".

Also, I get the fun part of running the entire backend of this site. SSL cert expires, now I have to go get it installed on the website, seedbox and nas. Oh our seedbox host has a failed drive and they changed our host. Now I got to go fix our dns entries, and redo the FTP sync from the nas.

Never ending

But this spurt, this spurt will be the one.

41 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

You don't happen to have Games For Windows 5 or 6?  Those are the only ones out of the first 15 issues I'm not scanning.

Games for Windows 5 is on my spreadsheet of things I have

Games for Windows 6 is already preserved

Alright, time to step back from scanning today and get those torrents for 2021 and 2022 out.....maybe even 2023

Games for Windows Issue 12 November 2007

Rescans for @E-Day

Computer Games Issue 122 January 2001

Computer Games Issue 173 April 2005

Computer Games Issue 158 January 2004

Computer Games Issue 175 June 2005

Computer Games Issue 121 December

Computer Games Issue 139 June 2002

PC Gamer Issue 113 August 2003

Games for Windows Issue 7 June 2007

Games for Windows Issue 1 December 2006

Games for Windows Issue 15 February 2008

Pocket Games Issue 4 Fall 2000

Pocket Games Issue 5 Winter 2001

Pocket Games Issue 3 Summer 2000

Pocket Games Issue 11 Spring 2003

Pocket Games Issue 10 Winter 2003

We need ADF scanners with dual scanning heads, because a piece of dust will never be in the exact same position on both pieces of glass.

I will add that opening up the IX500 doesnt give too much room, but the 7160 opens up wider to get down to the glass. Maybe I can just scan 500-1000 magazines real quick and be done with what I have in my storage unit.....pretty please!

18 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

It's an ADF scanner...dust is always going to be a problem.  If you can just pop an entire mag into E-Day's scanner and run it through without once having to wipe down the glass, and every page pops out scan-line-free, then I can only assume it's using software to erase the scan lines using some sort of "content aware fill" to guess what's behind them.

Speaking of which, I can tell you that the Scansnap ix1600 I use (which is the replacement for the ix1500, which was the replacement for the ix500) supposedly DOES have software to automatically remove scan lines, but it's all wishful thinking and marketing hype.  You're still going to have to check your pages every now and then for scan lines, because they WILL appear.  Kiwi uses one of those multi-thousand dollar scanners, and he's still got to clean the glass from time to time just like everybody else.

One day, they'll hopefully release a magic box that we can insert a mag into, press a button, and out will pop perfectly debound, scanned and edited scans ready to be uploaded, but for now it still takes work at every stage of the process.

Dude, I use compressed air, a microfiber cloth, and I whisper sweet poems into this scanner and it still throws dust lines on me with no rhyme or reason. All the sudden pages 1-50 scanned fine, 51-60 have scan lines, and then 61 thru 100 are ok again.

So normally I scan with a Fujitsu IX500....

And while I like it, and it has been the best scanner I have used in the last 15 years, recently this guy has been pissing me off. Oh it will scan a magazine in no time, but then @E-Day hits me up the next day and gives me a list of like 10, 20, 30 pages to rescan with it. So I put it thru a second time, and maybe this time I do it upside down or backwards, always a random dust line somewhere to piss me off.

I work in IT, my job has a ton of scanners. So I am test driving the same scanner @E-Day uses, which is the Fujitsu fi-7160

I just reran all 12 issues of GamePro that I ran thru the IX500 the other day, @E-Day is checking them out. If this guy works better for me, and I can start really plowing thru magazines, this might be a game changer. I wont be able to keep this guy for long, but for right now I am testing with it. If this model gives me less stress, I may be able to get a few hundred....yes hundred.....magazines out of my storage unit and processed thru this.

I wish I could test drive this one. Which is the fi-7460, and would do large format magazines as well. But the IX500 was a $400 scanner, the fi-7160 is a $850 scanner, and the fi-7640 is a $2400 scanner.

Fingers crossed that the fi-7160 lets me get thru some of the backlog I have acquired and we can start completing out some of the other sections around this site.

Anyways just an FYI

GamePro Issue 250

GamePro Issue 265

GamePro Issue 253

GamePro Issue 264