Are you guys interested in magazine cover gifts/discs?

[Vargus]

Hi,

As the subject states...

While I am sitting on a gold mine, when it comes to magazines to be scanned.

It got me thinking are you intested in cover items, most notably demo discs or alike?

I did also once convert a VHS tape to DVD, from the first issue of Sega Saturn Magazine (iirc)

Well that is all I have for now, please let me know when you get a moment, thanks.

[Vargus]

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I guess no one is interested, I'll further add (iirc) I have ps1 demo cds, OG xbox official magazine demo dvds, ps2 official magazine demo discs, happy to make ISOs or other formats, depending on what you would like.

I do have whole batch of PSW DVDs too, both UK and AUST

I was looking at becoming a patron, however with the lack of a response, has got me thinking twice about all this. I guess until produce something, it'll fall on deaf ears. Sorry for the trouble

[Areala]

6 hours ago, Vargus said:

"Your content will need to be approved by a moderator"

I guess no one is interested, I'll further add (iirc) I have ps1 demo cds, OG xbox official magazine demo dvds, ps2 official magazine demo discs, happy to make ISOs or other formats, depending on what you would like.

I do have whole batch of PSW DVDs too, both UK and AUST

I was looking at becoming a patron, however with the lack of a response, has got me thinking twice about all this. I guess until produce something, it'll fall on deaf ears. Sorry for the trouble

Sorry for the delay in responding. We have a problem with spammers, so all new accounts are automatically flagged for post moderation until they accumulate five forum posts, and I hadn't seen this one yet. I've made this visible now, so just a couple more and you'll be good to go.

I'm certainly interested in this sort of thing, but the site as a whole isn't really set up to archive .ISOs and such, although physical scans of things like cover discs and such would fit wonderfully in our gallery! Right now, the best way to contribute things like that to the site would be to create an account with a site like archive.org and upload the material there, then create links to it here.

As an example, when I scanned Tricks of the DOOM Programming Gurus and submitted the file, I included a link to the CD that came with the book which someone else had preserved over at Archive.org:

So if, for example, you archived a demo disc for an issue of OPM, you could leave a comment under that issue's download entry with a link to the disc from that issue. You could also edit that issue's entry in the magazine database to include the download link, and include a link to your archive account in your forum profile here so other users could find all of your content in one go!

*huggles*
Areala

[Vargus]

Thanks for the response, it was much appreciated. I haven't spent much time with archive.org, but I'll check it out. Still plan on contributing here and at archive.org (if required) depending on the content I've got.

Will be in touch soon.

[sCZther]

On 8/14/2023 at 11:58 AM, Vargus said:

Thanks for the response, it was much appreciated. I haven't spent much time with archive.org, but I'll check it out. Still plan on contributing here and at archive.org (if required) depending on the content I've got.

Will be in touch soon.

Those would be best suited for the Redump project There is already quite a lot of cover discs archived there and your contributions would be very welcome!

[Seventy7]

DM sent, would love to get these added to redump. I've been adding a bunch of PlayStation focused UK discs there lately.