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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?"

2 hours ago, E-Day said:

I'll be editing them as uninteresting as they are to me. It's so hard to get him to scan anything that I don't want them to be scanned for nothing

So you don't want my scan then, right?   I felt the same as you actually.  I had bought a set of (nearly) the complete run off of eBay, had them sent to my parents, and then carried them back to Japan with me on the plane the last time I visited home, for the sole purpose of scanning them (although I'm not averse to PC gaming mags, these are too new to be of interest to me).  So for me to not scan them would be a huge waste of my money and effort.

I was hoping my scan/edit would be good enough to use and that maybe you'd be relieved not to have to edit together those 23 joins (seriously - that's 46 pages, nearly 1/3 of the mag), but I get it, it's you guys' site, might as well use your own scans.  And though I worked really hard on it, it's not a total waste of my efforts - people can still get my copy elsewhere if they prefer it or just want it right now.

@E-Day @Phillyman Hey guys, as I mentioned, I'm going to be scanning all but issues #5 and 6 of Games for Windows.  I don't want to step on anyone's toes, though.  I realize Philly has just scanned a few more of them, so if you feel like it would be a waste not to edit those, then by all means, go ahead and I can keep mine just at OGM and Archive.  If you decide it would be better for E-Day to focus on editing other stuff instead, that's fine, too - I'm going to be scanning them regardless.  I've already finished the first issue (geez, for such a short mag, there were 23 different background joins!) if you want to take a look.  I can upload it here if you like, or you can finish up your own copy - let me know which you'd prefer.

12 minutes ago, Phillyman said:

You guys lucked out that my bukkake gif search turned up no results that could be posted here.

You've gotta search for bukkake udon.  It's yummy.

28 minutes ago, dablais said:

That's my trick, I do a lot of edit while reading those mags at the same time, finding what's interest me. 

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!

20 minutes ago, dablais said:

I can’t wait to see all those new scans appearing!

Geez dude, what more do you want?  RM has had had multiple releases every day.  Hell, YOU'VE had multiple releases everyday.  I made a joke about it a short while back, but I wasn't kidding - we used to go WEEKS between a single new release.  These are the golden days.  Relax, maybe take some time to read a mag or two.  Lord knows there's not enough time in the day (not my day, anyway) to actually keep up with reading ALL the mags at the rate they're dropping.

20 minutes ago, Phillyman said:

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

Games for Windows 6 is already preserved

OK, good.  I misspoke, actually.  I'm scanning all but 5&6 out of the first 17 issues, not 15.  I HAVE 15 issues, so I think that's how the numbers got jumbled in my brain.

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.

15 hours ago, DarkReaper said:

Does it have to be from a flatbed/ADF scanner, as I have access to a book scanner (but have yet to test the quality of it).

Probably.  I've never seen great results from a book scanner.  So far as I know, there has never been a scan made with a book scanner that has been approved here.  But you might as well test it.

15 hours ago, DarkReaper said:

• • If I scan them on my flatbed binded, can that be trumped by an unbinded scan?

 

Debound scans will always look better.  Depending on the mag, it can still be possible to scan it bound on a flatbed and get usable results (if the mag is stapled and not too thick).  But again, a debound scan will be better.

15 hours ago, DarkReaper said:

• Is there a minimum DPI? I didn't see anything about that

It used to need to be at least 2200px high.  That's below 300dpi, and nowadays I think a lot of scanners are releasing at 300.  600 is still probably too large to be desired here.

15 hours ago, DarkReaper said:

Are scanners expected to edit/clean up the photos after? Or are there dedicated teams here for that. I do not have the expertise in Photoshop

It doesn't take expertise, just a little effort and practice, but if your scans are good enough, there is probably someone willing to edit it.  Of course, uncropped and unstraightened flatbed scans aren't really something anyone is going to want to deal with.  Might be best to arrange it ahead of time with someone, maybe give them some sample scans so they know what they'd be getting into.

I can't imagine what sort of black magic a printer could work to keep dust away.  It's got nothing to do with the scanner.  You've got dust particles floating in your air, and you've got dust particles on the paper of the pages you're scanning.  Floating dust WILL FIND A WAY to muck up your scans, unless you're doing your scanning in some sort of airless vacuum.  And the ADF basically wipes the dust off of the pages right onto the glass as it's squeezing them through during a scan (and sometimes a page getting squeezed through will pick that dust back up again, which is why you're getting batches of pages with no lines after pages with lines).

I don't want to speak in absolutes, because I could be wrong about anything, but it's definitely my belief that you will never find an ADF scanner that doesn't require frequent wipedowns.  It's not that hard, just stop wasting time trying to scan the entire mag at once.  Scan 20-30 pages, check the last page, front and back, and if they look good, keep going (or wipe the glass anyway for the hell of it.)  Hint: it's much easier to see dustlines on pages with dark backgrounds. Don't bother checking pages that are just light background and text, as you're likely to overlook them.

I forgot to mention another annoying feature of the ix1600 - it will give you a warning light when it detects dust on the glass.  In theory that's great - you'll know when to stop and clean it.  Unfortunately, it only seems to detect giant dust particles and debris, while smaller ones go unnoticed, so you still have to manually check even when the warning light is off.  It would probably be better to do away with the feature entirely since it is only partly functional.  But it looks good when they write it as a "feature" on the box.

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.

10 hours ago, fransbjorkstam said:

looking for old swedish gaming magazines from my childhood! i am also trying to buy them at auctions, but lately, retro gaming related items tend to go for extreme overprices in the swedish auction sites

Not just Swedish sites.  eBay is pretty absurd lately.  I haven't used eBay in decades, but back then, you used to have to pay a fee to relist unsold goods every week, so people tended to price things to sell.  I can only assume something has changed, because now I see the same mags listed at ridiculous prices, going unsold week after week for months, or even years.

I remember when I first decided to sell off some of my mags.  This was maybe 20 years ago, and I sold off all of my GamePros, since I never cared for that mag.  I put them all together in one lot - maybe 20 issues or so - and the whole thing sold for $5 LOL.  I guess I should have waited 20 years.