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I do plan to give these a closer look. Just holiday stuff still going on.

 

If any other team member thinks they're good, they can go right ahead and upload them.

I'm working on Play #47. 

The scans are good but I keep running in to a single pixel vertical line on the left side.  It isn't consistant but sometimes it is in the "worst" spot.

 

 

That particular debris line would be simple to remove. Select the line however you like (if the page hasn't been straightened yet, then it should be a straight vertical selection with the rectangular selection tool, otherwise use the polygonal lasso tool), then do a content-aware fill (Edit menu > Fill> Content aware). This is also what I do a lot of margins, corner folds, tears, etc.

 

I finished Play 47 U.  I uploaded to MediaFire.  If it's satisfactory, then marktrade can put it up.  If changes are needed, let me know.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/?yiu030cy2cx556t

 

Meanwhile, I will be working on Play 48 U

 

Looks pretty good, on first glance! I'll give it a closer look when I get home later tonight.

Let me know what issues you have of CG:SP you have so I don't have to get them shipped to NZ. No point wasting money if I don't need to. Or destroying someone's collection

I think you've already scanned all the ones I have, but I'll keep you apprised.

All 16 issues of Games International have been scanned, edited, and uploaded!

 

https://archive.org/details/GamesInternational

I've been working to add this 'zine to the dbase but wanted to firm up some details first as its history is very convoluted.  It may involve multiple new 'zine entries when all is said and done.  Leave it to marktrade to pick one of the tough ones!  

 

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• 1988 - Games International - a British magazine about tabletop strategy and war games - is established.
• 1989 - Games International begins to include computer game coverage with issue 9 (Sep/Oct 1989).
• 1990 - Games International ends with issue 16 (July 1990).  Its successor - Strategy Plus - debuts with issue 1 (October 1990).  The primary focus is now computer gaming although tabletop still receives some coverage.

All 16 issues of Games International have been scanned, edited, and uploaded!

 

https://archive.org/details/GamesInternational

 

Strategy Plus will come next. I may pick the hard ones, but I follow through.

This is one of the rarer ones and I only picked it up recently. It is not part of the unedited batch in the Editors Wanted thread, in case anyone was wondering.

Enjoy!

Which one should I edit?  I've read the post but am not aware of who is working on what at the moment.

 

Right now Depressor is the only one announcing what he's working on regarding this thread. Kiwi seems to pick one every and now and then to edit for OGM.

 

I'd say, pick an issue of PLAY, since that's getting the least attention right now. Check to see if that issue is already available here or at OGM. If it's not, post here that you're going to edit it. Then away you go!

Sometimes the truth is harsh. You don't often see web images with color profiles because for a long time there's been a commonly accepted web standard of the sRGB color space, but that's changing now that wider gamut displays are more common. Having a color profile is future proofing the image for new displays. Converting to sRGB does not provide the same results. If Firefox needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, so be it.

Color correction is not enabled by default in Firefox. I'm not worried about scaring away anyone not using software that's color managed because frankly it's time they got out of the dark ages.

Oh, it's totally fine! I recognize people want to read in a variety of sizes and formats, and part of the reason of starting with a hi-res scan is to make it easier to accommodate everyone.

 

I'm uploading some more CD-ROM magazines. This is my first upload that includes JPEGs with embedded color correction profiles made from my flatbed.

 

https://archive.org/details/BlenderVol33

I'd be willing to scan them, but I can't promise they'd be done anytime soon. Took me over eight months to scan a 44-page magazine on a flatbed, lol.

There have been zero complaints. All the feedback has been positive. Half the time people have just been reassuring me that I don't need to update every day and I shouldn't burn myself out. I am very lucky to have such support, but also very happy to provide my best work. And I think my best work right now is in 600dpi.

All six of my issues of InterActivity have been uploaded to ADO.

Today I finished editing and uploading an issue of Mead Publishing's Electronic Entertainment (not IDG's). It's the first time I've scanned an entire issue with a flatbed and without separating any of the pages. It's only 44 pages, so it's of a manageable download size as well!

 

https://archive.org/details/ElectronicEntertainment198309

 

Next I'll be uploading some various data discs from the 90s.

The whole issue. I can't scan it.

Okay, I'll scan it, then! I'll PM you my address.

Calvin and Hobbes, no question.

Hey I have an issue (bagged no less) that I got in an auction for the FF7 EGM cover of the PSM FF7 cover issue. Unfortunately it won't fit on my scanner bed as it is to wide. Could I mail it to you to scan? If you don't want to edit it I'll do the editing if you upload the raw scans. Or you can do the whole shebang. I just need someone who has the ability to scan it.

I'm a little confused. Are you just talking about a cover piece or an entire issue?

Currently editing and uploading issues of InterActivity to ADO.

Also thank you to aloram for donating.

Or you can just upload it to archive.org and it will automatically create a text searchable PDF in the download options alongside your original upload.

Maybe it's an OS thing. On the Mac it's very simple to search within PDFs through the OS itself. You don't have to open any programs or any of the files themselves. You just to go to whatever directory level of your collection you want to search in and then type in the search window. It'll give you not only results with matching filenames but matching content.

Of course the files themselves have to be "text searchable PDFs," a specific kind of PDF that not even Kiwiarcader cares about, and he cares about PDFs!

Never understood this... Always was pity when i find this crap and can't find the original scans.

Maybe i'm too old, but i never understood the OCR and search in magazines... You have the content page and you have a mind - what else do you need)))

It's more about being able to search multiple magazines. Last year during the Shenmue kickstarter I very much wanted to research past coverage on Shenmue to learn more about the original vision of the game and where a new game might lead. With OCR I could very easily search "Shenmue" and related words like "Virtua Fighter RPG" and "Yu Suzuki" and jump right the pages I need without having to dig through any files.

I realize I'm the only person on this site who cares about OCR, but haven't any of you ever looked at the magazines on your shelves and just wished you could type in a search query and instantly find what you're looking for?

Gotcha, perhaps it was just when IA created PDF files of scans. I remember seeing quite a bit of bitching on random websites that the PDF versions of the Nintendo Powers were absolute crap. They had downgraded the original 65MB CBR files to 7MB PDF files and the results were complete garbage. I will snag them up

The PDF files that are automatically created do look pretty bad, but they're searchable and great for looking things up quickly. I believe that's their intended purpose.

Ah! So that explains it.

I have been meaning to reach out to you and see if I can send a USB flash drive off to you for the scans, which then I could put them on the Retromags NAS, which would let members grab them from here. I remember IA doing some weird stuff with compression of files, so I didn't want to grab the IA versions if they have been downgraded in quality for that site.

The CBR files that are downloadable there are identical to the files that I upload. I ran an MD5 check on a couple now just to be sure. It's just that they use the file to derive a number of other compressed file formats as well. To download the original unaltered file that I uploaded, go to the "download options" panel on the right and click "COMIC BOOK RAR."