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I think Retromags as a site should be the Wiki. That should be the main site, with the forums being a section, and the downloads being a section. Kind of like Magweasel but better. On the forums page, there is no link to the Wiki. As you look up things in the wiki, the issues that are scanned have a link to the download. Links to the forums and DL section and other stuff are always present somewhere. http://gbatemp.net/ has too much stuff on the home page that I didn't go past that page. Too overwhelming. I think the site would function well as a nice, pretty version of magweasel with the forums and download section and such. That site is dead as far as updates anyhow.

If the table was more neatly organized, finding magazines would probably be easier. For instance, why do the covers use half the table, leaving a bunch of white space - or in this case, blue space - in their cell? The cell for the covers should only be a bit bigger than the covers themselves. This would give more room for the magazine info, and would allow more info to be included on the listing page. It seems this whole site is automated using a database, so I can't imagine making tweaks and changes to the design would be easy (fueling my dislike for content management systems in general). Some people may be intimidated by how everything is set up and layed out. I know I had a lot of trouble finding what I wanted when I first arrived. If I wasn't obsessed with finding old issues of GamePro and such, I might have given up. However, the universe is lucky that I didn't

I still think "Downloads", whether it is changed to something easier for newcomers to know what that leads to or not, should be more prominent than it is now. It's between Shoutbox and Calendar in the links at the top. It should be first, and it should look different than all the other buttons so it stands out. Navigation of this site is still an issue I have, even after more than a year here. And we've seen complaints on Digg or whatever the heck it was about the home page layout. Maybe the whole site could/should be retooled. I agree with some of the criticism that the home page is very cluttered. I don't know how much flexibility there is to change things around, but making it easier to find stuff quickly and make it look sexy would be helpful for the site. Reorganizing the download section sounds like a good idea. I don't know if people would prefer initially looking for their magazine by region, or by searching the list of Magazine titles. Why not a list of magazine titles; when you click on one, it brings you to a list of all those available (similar to what there is now), even if there is only one issue scanned. Tidy it up a bit as far as the table that displays everything, and you could be set. Game guides, manuals and everything else could be their own sub sections. I think making the table more visually appealing would help quite a bit; maybe more so than reorganizing things into regions.

Mega Play Volume 4 Number 2 (Issue 15 overall) arrived today. Scanning will commence very shortly.

Saving a JPEG at a setting of 8 in Photoshop still gives you an excellent image, and the file size is a decent chunk smaller.

According to the owner's (djpubba) post on the HGM site forum, if it doesn't sell, he'll just keep it. And as he said in his auction, he has too much else going on in his personal life to run the magazine. On the HGM forum, he said that if it sold, he was hoping he'd be able to stay on in some capacity. So working for the magazine is something he could do, but it sounds like all the responsibilities of running is something he doesn't seem to have time for.

It is also safe to go with a width of 1600, which is what I do. But 1400 seems to be the new standard. I like to stay ahead of the curve

It will be great! While my wife's friend wants to buy an iPhone, I'm getting a rotary phone. He'll freak out when he sees it. I miss corded phones.

Shouldn't the grass be covered in snow at this time of year?

Sure, that sounds fine.

I think you are reading a bit too much into that dialog than is really there. I played this game once, and then got rid of it. Boring as hell. I have a real life mortgage to pay off; I don't need a fake one too.

Definately! I also won a trimline rotary phone while I was asleep. I have been looking to get a rotary phone for a while now. Nice and old school.

I won one on eBay tonight; the desk phone type. I am also bidding on one of the trimline rotary phones. Then I'll be wired

GMR was indeed EB Games version of GI. I read about it on James Mielke's 1Up web log. Those GI's you have are too current as they are less than 5 years old. As are some of the GMR magazines. Everything else is good.

I got this system just over three years ago, so to me it is not old enough to justify replacing it. It still works great, though more than one core would be helpful to speed up video editing. This is the motherboard I have. It's a Socket LGA 775 board, and while the Pentium D, Pentium Dual-Core and Core 2 Duo are also LGA 775, as far as I know, I cannot drop any of these into this board. Is that correct. I know some stuff about computers, but not the fine technical details like compatibility of different CPUs with the same socket. Perhaps Mr. Computer Rapiar (Triverse) could let me know what else I can put in my board besides a Pentium 4.

Right now I am running a Pentium 4 3.0ghz processor with a gigabyte board that supports 2 gigs of RAM max, which is how much i have in there. An upgrade would run me $500-$550 for either a Intel Core 2 Duo (Quad makes the price $550), a new motherboard, and 4 gigs of RAM, plus a new SATA DVD burner since all my components are IDE, and new boards on seem to have 1 IDE connector on the board, which would cover my hard drives only. I can get a whole computer for that much at the local shop. It won't be as good, but it has everything. I feel the single core pinch of my computer when I am editing home videos the most, but i know new parts would speed everything up. But for the price of an upgrade, I could get a whole new machine. It's crazy. I am not sure it's worth upgrading my 3.5-year-old system.

Triverse is the one who let me know you were looking to unload some magazines

I would be willing to accept EGM, Game Players, Game Informer for scanning. I've been looking for more scanning to do.

I am looking to get a couple of rotary phones, because they are awesome. I want one that's the old fashioned desk phone like you see in the 70's and 80's movies and TV shows. And also one of the trimline rotary phone, where the dial is on the handset. eBay has some, but shipping seems to be extremely pricey. I was wondering if anyone had any nice rotary phones laying around that they wanted to get rid of. Technology annoys me, so while people are getting cellphones, I want to move backwards and get a rotary phone or two.

I dunno. HGM seems to be at the bottom of the video game magazine pile. They seem to have no distribution in Canada, and from what I hear, limited distribution in the US, only publish quarterly, and put out issues that are skinnier than most monthly game magazines. Buying it and turning it into a retro mag might be an idea, but doing so would probably turn away most of the established reader base. I see their days as numbered ever since they went quarterly. A quarterly game magazine in this day and age makes no sense at all. I am with triverse and his desire to acquire and preserve magazines that don't exist anymore and making them available again in print form, or even making deals with current magazines to start making their back issues available in print again. I mean, that is what this site is all about; it would be much cooler to be doing it with real magazines the real way. Hardcore Gamer is nice to look at, and has some fantastic special features, but the rest of the magazine isn't that interesting or relevant. I am, in all honesty, more interested in what EGM, Game Players, and GamePro wrote about games 15 years ago than I am about what HGM writes about now.

You need to start scanning some of those issues that are missing here

Ziff-Davis might switch you over to their PC Magazine digital subscription. That is their only other magazine. Or they might do nothing. They still have no money.

I don't think they could have filled those pages with ads. It looked like they were struggling to get the ads they already had. That's why their magazines were so skinny. Back i nthe 90's they said that any good magazine runs on 50-50; about 50% content and 50% ads. The December 2008 issue only had 22% ads. His stuff might have been filler, like how I feel GamePro uses the Opening Shots and Parting Shot pages as an easy way to get a few more pages in the magazine for cheap. So long EGM, long live GamePro. It won the magazine war between the two.

Sure I can. I found it annoying. Very annoying.

The worst thing in EGM was that "REst of the Crap" crap written by that Seanbaby guy. I assume htat guy was trying to be humourous? IN any case, he failed big time.