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That is a beautiful cover! Did Computer Games Strategy Plus start out as a monthly? We're still trying to figure out the listing for the database. https://community.retromags.com/topic/9973-missing-magazine-computer-games-strategy-plus/

Well mine isn't set that way by default either, but when I open a magazine I set it to double page because I'm reading a magazine. CloudReaders on my iPhone doesn't even have a setting and just displays every page joined in one long scroll, which works well for those triple page spreads or larger. And I end up zooming in all the time anyways, no matter what device I'm reading on. When I'm reading with Simple Comic on in my computer, it defaults to displaying a single page even while in double page mode whenever it detects a very large image. Afterward it automatically goes back to displaying two pages. I would be releasing like that but I seem to remember a conversation on here where others were having problems with it. Edit: Oh, it messes up PDF auto-generation, I think.

I'm assuming everyone has that capability, yes.

I personally don't include joined images, even when I've edited them together that way. They will display as joined while reading and because they're identical height it's easy enough for anyone to rejoin the pages if they want it in one separate image file. I mean it's thoughtful to include the unified image but also redundant.

I was a janitor for my old Catholic school and church. Absolutely that place was creepy when I was there all alone in the middle of the night. It was also pretty fun.

Even worse is when items can be used for crafting and you actually do come across a moment where you feel you need to use that item but you think you might need it later to craft something and you don't even know what that something might be.

You have to remember in Japan they squat. You have to stay alert in that position or else you fall over, so it helps to have something to read. You can't just zone out like we do in the West.

Well one of my color targets arrived but I haven't been able to make a profile from the scan, which I guess is no surprise because it was printed on cardboard instead of paper and I can't even get it to go through my scanner properly. Looks like it was made for flatbeds and cameras, not ADFs. That guy I talked to says he's never even heard of magazine paper color targets because magazine printing is so inconsistent to begin with. Two copies of the same issue of the same magazine will have greater differences than two photo prints. So, if you try to print color targets the same way, you won't get consistent color targets, or at least not consistent enough to be useful. Getting multiple scans of the same magazine is more useful than people think. My other target will arrive next week, but after eyeballing the target I have, I already have a pretty good idea of my scanner's faults. It doesn't get the very darkest of colors or the darkest grays, registering them as black. Technically this is referred to has having a limited "Dmax" or a limited dynamic range and is very typical for ADFs from what I hear, probably because you need to have a lot of exposure to get dark colors and the speed of the paper going past the scanner doesn't allow much time for those colors to be exposed. And although flatbeds are a little better in this area, it's still where most of their color faults are too. Apparently the most advanced scanner target is made by HutchColor and it's precisely because it has many different kinds of dark grays and dark colors. That's where scanners need correcting. I was able to buy a used HutchColor off eBay. We'll see how it works next week, if at all. I'll have some other projects to report on. I bought a long reach stapler so I can put magazines like those rare Game Player's PC magazines back together after I scan them, and I my book press and gluing materials arrived so I can try to put glued magazines back together. Seriously! But I really should get back to scanning.

Just wanted to say again how much I appreciate you putting these ads together. Even back when these magazines were still new I lamented that I couldn't see the entire page. I'd have to sit there and wonder how a nice double page ad was supposed to look. Now that I see them so many years later, I feel like it was such a shame they ever divided them in the first place.

It takes all types, I guess! You really are dedicated, then. I can't imagine spending all that time on magazines I don't even care about.

I don't know. Giving up a magazine is kind of hard. Don't you feel anything when you're de-binding them?

I actually prefer the blue water of the original as well, which is why I like using this image as an example, but I don't forget the color of Lara's shirt.

[EDIT: As of iOS 9.3, which was released with the 9.7" iPad Pro, iOS now supports color management. You should be able to see a difference in those two images when using the updated version of iOS. Original post follows.] Thank you both for letting me know. Your eyes are not deceiving you. I just looked it up and color management is indeed absent from Safari for iOS. Darn Apple! I just assumed that would have been a consistent feature between the two platforms, but one blog post I found said there don't appear to be any apps that use color management on iOS. That means in order to get the effects of the profile, it has to be converted to sRGB from within Photoshop. Here, try looking at these images in iOS Safari: sRGB color profile Adobe RGB 1998 converted to sRGB color profile

Don't go too hard on E-Day. This has been thankless work until we showed up. Thanks to everyone including myself for changing that.

Wait a minute. You mean to tell me your self-congratulatory posts go all the way back to the 2010? lol

If my head doesn't explode by the end of the day, I'll have a much better understanding of color spaces and color profiles, or at least the use of them. I haven't even started color calibrating my scanner yet, but already I've discovered that my scans can be made a lot more accurate simply by adding an Adobe RGB 1998 color profile to them. The default working color space in Photoshop and the default color space in general for most computers is sRGB, which is good for monitors but not for print because print is capable of wider gamut of colors. Because I'm scanning print, it's more appropriate to use a wider color space. The most popular color space that's wider than sRGB is Adobe RGB 1998 and the effect is a much more faithful representation of the printed pages. sRGB color profile Adobe RGB 1998 However, these images will look different depending on your browser and how it implements color management. In Firefox for example color management is very poorly implemented by default. You have to alter some settings in the config or download an extension to help you do it. I'm not kidding, even in the extension you have to click on the "advanced" tab and select an option that asks Firefox to respect the intent of embedded color profiles. Pretty inane. If a color profile is embedded, it's there to be respected, I think. In Safari and Chrome they should look fine. I could start adding Adobe RGB 1998 profiles to all my scans now, but I'm wondering if I can do better, since I still haven't tried calibrating my scanner yet.

I guess these are still available in Japan.

I just looked it up on watchcount.com and it said it sold for a best offer of $25, even showing a link to the offer history. I don't know why the OP's link is telling me it sold for $300.

I've seen some of those early PSMs sell high, but not that high.

Well, we have the complete info now. Let's make it happen! I'll scan some issues in the next two or three weeks.

Wow, dat ad for The Rocketeer. And The Hunt for Red October on the next page!

Exactly how I pictured it. Like something out of Gundam Wing, lol.

You're living in a world where everything's made of wood and rice paper, for all I know, lol.

Keep it under 451 degrees Fahrenheit and you should be okay.

That's all good and I remember posting about the sampling method in one of VGBounceHouse's threads. My scanner even had some auto-thresholding, which I've been using on all my scans. But the color correction I'm looking for doesn't come from white balance issues or contrast.