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Those of you who have been here for a few years may remember a post I did in March 2012 about illustrator Marc Ericksen. If not, there is the link, with a bunch of broken images. Very helpful. The short story is that he illustrated the covers for five or so issues of GamePro, a plethora of game box art, such as Tengen's version of Tetris, Galaga for the Atarai 7800, and probably the most famous of which is Mega Man 2 for the NES. If you are on this site, you know his work. Anyway, he is doing a project for a retrogaming museum in Berlin and they would like him to do a piece of art for them. He is using one of his old pieces, which he believes was done in the 90s for and ad in a gaming magazine. I do not recognize it, but hopefully someone here does. Does this look familiar to anyone?

Interesting, but I would be afraid of something getting hit or bumped in that configuration.

Something to look into. The only problem with this whole thing is that access to the ports at the back of the motherboard will be hard to get to. Unless I put the motherboard right at the front, but then all the ports will be exposed and make things look ugly (or uglier),

So I have plenty of room still inside of there. I don't know if I need a graphics card, but I have one. It's 9.37x4.37 inches. It's not giant, or maybe it is. MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) DirectX 11 N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II I don't play games on my computer that would need that graphics card, or any graphics card, really. But it is quite helpful with Adobe Creative Suite as some effects and filters will use the graphics card for a boost. So I would keep it as is. I would maybe even move the board closer to the front so I could have a fan suck air in from the area for legs and blow it across the motherboard, and have another fan on the other side blowing the air out. The on the front of the desk/drawer, I could mount the Blu-ray burner and my USB/Card readers. And on the top I could find a home for my hot-swap SATA dock that is currently on the top of my case. Just like this case: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/thermaltake-v3-blacx-mid-tower-case-with-top-mounted-sata-hdd-docking-station-and-usb-30-w-o-psu

I like the height at which the top of my desk is at. I do not like those keyboard trays that sit lower than the desk, so anything I would do would not have one of those. If I used my desk, I would replace the top with a custom piece. It would be thinner so there would be more room for the area the computer parts would sit in. I would have to limit the available area so that I would have room for my legs. Otherwise they would press up against the underside. Below is an illustration looking from the top down of how I think I would need to lay things out. The power cord cubby is a current feature on this desk.

I never thought of modifying my current desk. The top it's pretty thick and I would consider that wasted space. I like the idea of having glass on top. Maybe not the entire desktop, but at least part of it so I can see the computron inside.

I saw something like that, but I have too much stuff on the walls already, or stuff I want to put on the walls. And I would still need to have a desk I looked at that post earlier.

Does anyone have a desk that has their computer in it? I don't mean your tower is in a cubby in the desk, but the desk is the computer case. Like this: http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/dk-02/ Has anyone built one? I have been looking at building such a desk for a couple of years, at first one where the top flips up to gain access to the components, but after seeing the above one, I like the idea of the while thing sliding out like a drawer. Does anyone have woodworking experience that would know how to build such a thing? I can build a deck, but I've never made a desk. I find my tower takes up a lot of space for no good reason, and getting rid of it would be great. I'm afraid to think what the material would cost me to make a decent sized desk. Right now I have this Ikea Malm desk, which I like a lot, but I'd like my desk to double as a case

Nintendo Power Issue 155 April 2000 is now available. Up next, after the New Year, is Nintendo Power Issue 156 May 2000 (scan #278).

Retromags Presents! Nintendo Power Issue 155 April 2002 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Facebook user Kanghyuk Blair Naujok for the donation of the magazine (and to me for scanning it)!

Newcomers are set to be allowed to download one file at at a time and five downloads a day. Members are set to be able to download 3 magazines at a time and 15 per day. I don''t know why you guys are running into these issues unless you are trying to download more at once than is set, so I have forwarded the issue to Phillyman since he is far more familiar with the forum software than I am. From the settings I see, you guys shouldn't be having problems.

Years ago I found a portable version of Photoshop CS3 that I would bring with me to work. I don't know if I still have it. If I do, I could float it to you if you want to start editing at work.

Back at the scanner. Up next will be Nintendo Power Issue 155 April 2000 (scan #277). I'll be working at a slower pace since I can no longer do the editing at work during slow periods. IT disabled use of the USB ports on all the computers in the department unless you have a secured drive provided by them. So all the editing will have to be done at home now.

Usually when people say they built a compter, they don't mean they built the actual case as well! Impressive! I would love to build a desk where the computer is built into I, with a glass top so I cold see all the parts..

Chatham? St. Thomas? Kitchener/Waterloo? Cambridge? Guelph? Brantford? Woodstock? St. Marys? Stratford? Goderich? I used to live in Rodney (population: 1000), so I am familiar with that part of the province. I currently live in Ottawa. I might have to take those issues off your hands

I was always interested in this magazine when I saw it promoted in GamePro in the Early/mid 90s. I am glad more of them are showing up on here

Xbox: The Official Magazine is still going. I saw it on the newsstand yesterday. Issue 195.

Retromags Presents! Expert Gamer Issue 72 June 2000 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the magazine (and to me for editing it)!

Retromags Presents! PSM Issue 23 July 1999 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the magazine (and to me for editing it)!

Category made and the issue is now in its home. Everyone should be able to download the issue now.

Retromags Presents! PSExtreme Issue 43 July 1999 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Phillyman for scanning the magazine (and to me for editing it)!