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Oh I see now. That makes more sense.

No rush. Those scans will be up there indefinitely, if no one edits them. Actually I wonder if I should put those links in the database and mark them as "Preserved ( R )" which I guess is the status for issues that need better editing, right?

"Anyone who edits 1 magazine will earn a 1 Year Patron Status, if you edit 3 magazines you will get a Lifetime Patron Status! If you've ever wanted to contribute to Retromags but don't have any money, magazines, or scanning equipment, this is your chance! Editing can be simple or complex work, depending on how good you want the final result to be, but the results can be rewarding, especially if you're able to create a seamless double-page spread that, because of the ways magazines are glued, has never been seen before. One thing's for sure, it almost always ends up taking longer than I plan, so I often upload unedited scans to pass this part of the process along to others. Each page has been carefully separated with a heat gun so the entire page could be scanned, including the covers and the spines. Enough content is there to edit together some nice looking double-page spreads, if you like, but that is not necessary to upload to Retromags. Basically they need to be cropped and straightened. You may also want to adjust the contrast or white point. Last year I tried uploading unedited scans, but it was complicated by the fact that some pages would be "glitched" and I wouldn't notice it until after I uploaded, requiring a rescan. I'm using different software now where that shouldn't happen at all. The main thing for me is to make sure that no scans get through with an abundance of vertical lines resulting from bits of dust, debris, and glue that deposit on the scanner glass, in which case I need to clean the glass and rescan, which happens often. When it affects many pages at once or is very obvious, I will do a rescan before uploading, but sometimes I don't notice when it happens to one or two pages and these will get through. Most of the time they can be edited out by selecting the lines and a doing a content-aware fill in the Photoshop or just using a clone-stamp. Please try this before asking me for a rescan because I will have moved on to other projects. Here is a list of my unedited scans so far. It will be updated as I scan more or people make edited versions. Game Players and Ultra Game Players: http://archive.org/details/UneditedGPScans These were donated by aloram Large format UK magazines including 64 Magazine, CDi Magazine, MegaTech, PC Review, Sega Force, Sega Pro, and SuperPlay: https://archive.org/details/UneditedUK_marktrade All of these were donated by Phillyman except the issue of PC Review which was donated by me. PC Gamer (USA): https://archive.org/details/UneditedPCGamer_marktrade Donated by me PLAY magazine (USA): https://archive.org/details/UneditedPLAY_marktrade Donated by me Please use this thread to coordinate, ask questions, or even to post your own unedited scans for others to edit. Personally I don't think there's much danger of two people editing the same thing at once because people are not exactly clamoring to do this sort of work, and it is work. Thank you for your help. More to come!

I only have one question for Areala. Can Canada redeem itself or is it a lost cause?

Can you link me? I'm referring to the section of the site where Retromags hosts files, the "Downloads" section. When I go to upload a file, I don't see a category for Computer Game Review.

I kept thinking I might improve those scans but they're fine for now, I guess. Always experimenting. I think it's better to just update individual missing-magazine threads but in the meantime you can always check my upload page for updates.

Here's another issue. http://archive.org/details/GPPCEVol5No6 Top post updated.

I've been scanning them recently, but currently there's no section in the download manager for them. https://archive.org/details/CGR24Jul1993 https://archive.org/details/CGR35Jun1994 https://archive.org/details/CDROMEntertainment1994June Before it became "& CD-ROM Entertainment" CD-ROM Entertainment was a supplemental magazine. I have no special desire to scan them myself and if you scanned them that'd be great but will you also upload an ISO of the disc as well?

This looks amazing! Thank you very much for this.

Here's a cover from that run of Electronic Entertainment from the Mead Corporation that I was talking about. It's the only issue I have, from September 1983.

If I used an anime or comic style ad, then the differences would be much harder to spot, making ADFs excellent for magazines like Famitsu. It's really only in very shadowy pages with subtle light reflections do the differences stand out to me.

Thank you for the moral support. I continue to work on these things because it is challenging and stimulating, if a little expensive, but hobbies are sometimes. Because I failed to profile my ADF, I bought a new flatbed with a higher dmax to see if I could profile that one and look at what kind of results I could get. I needed a new flatbed anyway to replace my cheapo wide format Mustek which started streaking mere months after I bought it. The CIS was also terrible at fluorescent colors. You get what you pay for, I guess. Never, ever buy a Mustek! I ended up going with a $160 Epson "Perfection" V550 knowing obviously it wouldn't be perfect but the dmax was good and that's what I wanted. I profiled it with the older scanner target I bought off eBay and started scanning. Here is a comparison of an ad where there's a lot of shadow. On the left is the V550 scan assigned my profile and converted to sRGB for display on the web with auto contrast. On the right is my ADF assigned with the Adobe RGB profile and converted to sRGB for the web and auto contrast. There are some general tonal differences like in the purples and reds. Probably the largest general difference is in shadow detail. The stone structure in the background on the far left has three-dimensional shape elements that are entirely lost on the right. The spires in the other structure are more easily visible. There are very fine shadow details in the woman's hair that are lost on the right and there are more details in the shadow the woman casts on the stone floor, giving the stones more dimension. The whole scene has a little more dimension. When the screenshots are zoomed in upon, they look better too. Because they are so small and lacking in so much detail already, a little correction can go a long way. The area which I personally think benefited the most from color correction is the translucent fabric on the woman's clothing. The light going through it looks so much more natural, combined with the shadow detail of all the folds in the fabric, really brings life to the image that my ADF couldn't capture. Now I still think the ADF is great and will still use it for the majority of my scanning because most pages in game magazines don't have these kinds of details. I think that even pages that contain a lot of screenshots that could benefit from this treatment significantly aren't really worth it in general because screenshots in magazines are so bad anyways it ends up being an exercise in making them a little less bad instead of good. It's just that there are a small handful of pages for every issue that I think could use a better scan, and one page spread out of every few issues for which I want the scan to be superb. As for people who use flatbeds for everything, I would certainly recommend you profile your scanner. It's not necessary, but you spend so much time scanning that taking a few minutes to scan a color target and making a profile could be a simple way to improve all your scans.

Well I haven't been scanning much lately. And that 100-mile run really was an experience that I don't plan to repeat (I think I'll just stick to double marathons and 100km runs, lol). Sounds like a very grim book indeed, then. There are races that are even longer. The Spartathlon, which traces the original steps of Pheidippides from the Battle of Marathon to Sparta, is 153 miles. Humanity has a forgotten history of traveling very long distances on foot. Many of the unique physical traits that humanity evolved make distance running easier, like long legs relative to body mass, longer tendons, more active perspiration which along with reduced body hair dissipates heat more efficiently than other mammals, etc. A cheetah is faster over shorter distances but it gets tired faster as well. We don't have to travel long distances on foot to outrun our caribou dinner anymore so we forgot that we're really good at it.

I've been in a 100-mile ultramarathon through a state forest trail and can tell you people are conversant all through the race running faster than 4mph. During the latter half of the race, when you're running through the night, it's almost necessary to talk just to maintain your sanity. At this point you're allowed a pacer, someone to come in from outside the race and run alongside you to help you stay focused. It's not uncommon for runners to have hallucinations or for pacers to report that their runners were carrying on a conversation with someone who wasn't there. I didn't fully hallucinate but I did start to see shapes and patterns in the trees and grass that looked like big animals or people, when I could tell it was just grass. It was years ago and I had many scary thoughts that night that I have since forgotten. Sounds like a scary book to me!

Are you talking about IDG's Electronic Entertainment from the mid 90s? There are other publications from different publishers that carried the name "Electronic Entertainment," like the non-nude series from Playboy in the early 80s (there were only four or five issues) and another which I just discovered recently that used to be called "Arcade" magazine published by the Mead Corporation, which also published "Coin Slot" magazine (for slot machine owners and collectors) as well as other books about slots. "Arcade" started in 1982 and changed its name to "Electronic Entertainment" in 1983.

I didn't take that message from "Starship Troopers," not from the book anyway. In fact I recall the book going out of its way to say that there was nothing wrong about being a civilian, it was just that serving in a military was necessary to be able to vote, and that's because voting is an exercise of force against other people. I found that very interesting to think about and an important insight. People think of voting as some peaceful thing, but it's really not. The book's proposition was that if you presumed to exercise political authority (force) over other people, then you presumed to be a soldier, and carried that to its logical conclusion. The movie played up the "I'm proud to be a citizen" angle for effect but in the book I think the final message is that voting is overrated and not something nice people do anyway. Exercising political authority over other people is something that should be done with more forethought and respect than people do. In the film there's a bunch of wild and crazy uses of force, and some see that as a satire of the right-wing state, but I see it as a satire of voters in general. Good to see another Wayside school fan.