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I'll be uploading unedited scans of PC Gamer to this link: https://archive.org/details/PCGamer_Unedited Issue 09, "The Multimedia Issue," is up. I've gotten into a workflow where I make two scans of everything, one normally and one "backward" so that both the front and back side scanners get a look at every page. Then afterward I'll look through the first scan and replace any corrupted pages with a scan from the second batch. That should cut down on rescan requests, and what rescan requests there are might be easily satisfied.

Welcome to the forum, Leathco. Yeah, I remember PCXL. Definitely a unique mag that I want to see scanned. I already have one issue up that I scanned because I thought it was an issue of another magazine I hadn't heard of. It appears with the title "PC Action" on the cover but it's just another issue of PCXL. Here it is with the discs. PC Accelerator 06 Feb 1999 https://archive.org/details/PCXL0299D1 I'll work on getting another couple issues up tomorrow.

Thanks, Kiwi! I have something a little different, an issue of Famitsu Dreamcast from July 2001. https://archive.org/details/FamDC07 3300 pixels tall unedited, I'm interested to see how good the OCR is on that, but my hunch is 600 DPI full res will be necessary to get the most of out it. This is the only issue of Famitsu DC that I have but I do have plenty of issues of Weekly Famitsu. They're rather thick, stapled, and I have no idea what's an appropriate file size for those. My knowledge of Japanese is basically first grade level. A good OCR will help translate.

Hey! I have a surprise for you guys. PC Games ISSUE NUMBER ONE. https://archive.org/details/PCGames01Fall1988 Personally scanned and edited by me.

Here you go! https://archive.org/details/vgce_unedited Sorry it's unedited, but still quite readable and at a nice resolution. I'll be uploading a couple more issues at that link eventually. Also, RetroDefense, Kiwi edited issue #56 for OGM. Just a heads up.

I just de-stapled it this afternoon.

I have a few VG&CE issues I can upload for you, if you'd rather edit those than Next Generation!

Here are ten more issues of GMR. https://archive.org/details/gmr_unedited Also I added another issue of Next Generation here: https://archive.org/details/ng_unedited #47 Be sure to stay in touch on what needs to be rescanned. I'll be much more likely to make sure it's a good scan if I know someone else is working on it! Otherwise I'll just upload the first scan to get at least something uploaded.

I completely agree and thank you for chiming in, RetroDefense. Although I'll still edit together some "nice" uploads of particular issues, I think I should focus on scanning first and worry about making things look nice later. So, starting today, I'll upload large volumes of unedited scans for editors or for plain use. Here are 15 issues of Next Generation, 28-34 and 49-56. https://archive.org/details/ng_unedited They are all 2800 pixels tall at 300 DPI. If anyone needs higher quality I can re-scan over twice that level of detail. To Editors: There will be many pages with vertical lines. Most of the time I can just edit these out but sometimes they are bad enough to need rescanning. Some of these issues were very dirty so there will be more lines than usual. If the lines are so bad that they cannot be edited, just drop a message here in this thread that an issue needs to be rescanned and I'll do it. I'll continue uploading more unedited issues of Next Generation to that link. I'll also create new links for other unedited magazine uploads, like GMR. Even with dirt lines and bad margins, archive.org will automatically OCR them and give us a searchable database, which I think is kind of a big deal. Also, as always, I welcome anyone else making their own scans. Nothing I upload is ever intended to be the final word on a magazine issue. So, criticism is welcome.

I do have profiles but they are not very useful. Perhaps my scanner is faulty? Not only can I not count on all the pages going in straight, the scanning area for the backside scanner is slightly out of the alignment with the frontside scanner (not a lot, but just enough to create a thin margin). There are some retromags scans that are not edited for alignment or margins. Next Generation #51 is a good example. If I could upload scans like that I'd have a hundred done by now.

I have scanned quite a lot of issues but have not edited or uploaded them yet. I find the scanner works better when it's getting a lot action with different paper types. Older magazines usually have tougher stock and do a pretty good job wiping away debris the cheaper/glossier stuff leaves behind. If I scan a lot at once, I can do a lot less rescanning and editing away dirt lines. At least that's how it seems. This scanner was built to scan all day so maybe that's how it should be used. Kinda like how cars are made for highway driving and aren't really made for stop and go. I've been thinking about putting out a call for editors. I usually edit in 600 DPI so that when future technology allows it I can just resize the images and release them. I know the conventional wisdom is that 300 DPI is enough but I don't agree. On some magazines the text is printed at 2400 DPI and ABBY FineReader (the automatic OCR app for archive.org) has been known to work better with 600 DPI scans. But if demand allows it then I can upload some smaller more manageable images that others can edit. Would anyone be interested? I personally don't see much reason to edit. Since I read mostly on a desktop computer and not on a pad, I'm less annoyed by misalignments or margins. The editing is tiring me out a bit much. So what do you say? We could get a lot more work done with the help of an editor or two.

I haven't listed everything yet, but enough is it up now that someone here might find something they like! http://www.ebay.com/sch/movingfellow/m.html Everything earned goes to the Shenmue 3 kickstarter. Right now I have an auction for my duplicate copies of GMR. If I don't sell those I'll just throw them away. Eventually I'll also list my duplicate copies of Electronic Entertainment and Computer Gaming World.

Oof, it's been a while. Here's another 300-page behemoth. Next Generation 24 Dec 1996 With disc. Edit: Kiwi noticed the DPI settings were a little out of whack, so I re-uploaded it so they all matched 300 DPI.

I don't mean to exaggerate but I think June 15th might be the greatest day in the history of gaming, certainly the greatest E3.

Unbelievable things happening today. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

PC Accelerator 06 Feb 1999 I don't know why this issue of PC Accelerator was titled "PC Action" on the cover. I guess it was some special issue? It's just another issue of PC Accelerator. Except it's printed on good paper and came with two discs! Which you can download here: https://archive.org/details/PCXL0299D1

These past few days I've been scanning and digitizing about a hundred Mac CDs I won in auction for cheap. A significant portion are magazine discs from Macworld, MacFormat, and Mac Home Journal from the late 90s. If anyone's interested you'll be able to see them on Macintosh Garden and/or archive.org in time or by request. Work has been busy and lately I've just been coming home and resting. Before I get back to scanning mags, here's that CD from CGW 140, which hadn't been available on archive.org yet. There's a neat flight-sim-themed multimedia presentation with some (I think) cool music and an intro from the editor. Also supposedly Richard Nixon is "haunting" the disc, but I can't find him. I only heard of him by listening to the raw WAV files. If you find him, let me know. https://archive.org/details/CGWXMAR

Haha, ooookay I kinda screwed up on this one. It's missing about 160 pages. Yeah. I don't know what happened! I think I was experimenting with making two files but by then it was late and I was very tired and forgot, maybe? Anyways here is "Part 2" with the same nice high resolution at 2800 px tall: https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration23Nov1996P2 And just for good measure here is the entire magazine in one file at 2400 px tall: https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration23Nov1996_2400 I apologize for the oversight.

In that case I'll need help in determining which scan of the alternate cover is preferred to include in the file (I do not have access to the other covers to scan them on my own). Right now I'm indexing the rest of my collection in order to determine what I have or don't have at a glance, just to make sure. Alternate covers are a pain, huh?

I just remembered that is a variant cover than what's currently in the gallery on Retromags. I have several other issues with variant covers as well and have been wondering how to handle them. Maybe add variant covers to the CBR as extra pages at the end so they don't interfere with the page numbering (GMR counts the cover as page one).

GMR 08 Sep 2003

Hey that's great! But I'm not able to connect to OGM. I haven't been able to for a couple days now. It says my IP address is blocked. I figured you were still doing maintenance or restructuring. Here's my latest scan, another one that had a lot of damage but I took care of it. GMR 03 Apr 2003 There was an awkward "perfume style" fold-out ad for Everquest in this issue. It wasn't scented but a fraction of the page folded out in a similar manner. I wasn't sure how to handle this at first, but it wasn't included in the page numbering anyway, so I just squeezed it in at the end. It wasn't like a poster or insert that I could just discard. It was printed like any other double-page ad. I thought these GMRs would be the death of me, but I think I'm doing okay.