KiwiArcader

No worries. I have my hands full at present with the EGM's

Hopefully you'll be okay with ultrasurf. Let us know how it goes. Hopefully, you will also appreciate that people like myself have paid money for a persoanl hosting account so people can enjoy our magazines. Unfortunately we have to make a purchase decision based upon factors such as cost, ease of use, how many people are likely to have accounts with the same hoster & what sort of restrictions are likely for free users. After weighing these factors up a Megaupload account was the one that made the most sense for me. There is nothing to prevent someone else grabbing a Mediafire account if it suits their needs and hosting our content there as well. That's why we have the ability to list multiple links. So if someone is up to the task by all means go for it. What we don't want to people placing content on free hosting accounts where the files are deleted after so many days of non-use etc as it pretty much means a full-time job cleaning our links out as they get deleted/replaced. This is a hobby after all .... no-one is getting paid to do this ....

All GamePro's now have PDF download links available.

Great stuff Gladiator. I have a lot of CVG's but I don't have many of the later issues at all so it's great to see you uploading these here. I will grab your CBR's and convert them to PDF's for those people preferring that format & add the links to your pages. Keep up the good work

Gamers Republic magazine also had a monthly review of new arcade games etc ... sometimes totalling 6 or more pages.

Hence my personally not really liking the idea. The whole point of retromags is to preserve mags but in my mind the sentiment behind the site is also to make it interesting for people to come back by providng interesting information about the mags, content so they know what is in the mag before they download it and to provide a medium where people are encouraged not just to take but also to give back to the cause. Bulk links provide none of the above. They merely provide a conduit for someone to just grab and run in one fell swoop. If that's the case we may as well have just created a torrent and not even have this site at all. I know someone can just grab a mag at a time and then create a list and place it somewhere else. I know we can't prevent that happening. But that doesn't mean we should host the links here. It's a principle thing as far as I am concerned. If we're going down that path why not grab and make all OoPA's links available in one list here too? Or stop scanning ourselves and just find any old scans on the internet and make lists of those too? Sorry ... that's my opinion. No-one will make me feel any different about it. You have to draw the line in the sand on a principle somewhere.

And if you're happy with it Phillyman then that's fine .... Jake and I only wanted your view on having these sort of bulk links made available before posting them here given we could just as easily created these ourselves from our MU text export facility.

Hey Guys, Everyone just needs to settle down a little bit & chill out. Jake is probably right in that the front page update is usually just to let people know what is new, is happening soon etc. General day to day problems are better dealt with in the usual forum posts so not to divert the original message. However, things around here have been a tad messy lately with some of the Mod's etc working long hours to get magazines/cover scans etc back online as only they and some Team Members have the necessary access. This invariably means some of us have been a tad tired ... read cranky as a consequence ... so replies might have been a tad blunt as a result. This is in no way an excuse .... everyone deserves respect and should receive it 100%, however I am merely expressing the reason why people might reply in a vein not normally seen from them ... hey, I know I have .... @badinsults .... your sending other guys here your magazines is an amazing act of generosity given everyone here knows the sort of money spent to obtain these. Giving them to members here ensures they will, when the appropriate time comes, be available for all our visitors and I am sure Jake will be doing everything possible to get your status here changed to reflect your positive contribution to our endevours. @kuaneos .... I appreciate your comments and agree that things may have been better handled. I know if I had seen the post about the DLC's BEFORE you posted the links I would've probably just PM'ed not to post them until Phillyman had given the idea some thought and an answer. @Crookedmouth .... hiya buddy .... Phillyman stated quite clearly that when he bombed out the unapproved links last week that we lost the records on who had made the original posts of ALL the magazines hosted here. It was a real bummer for sure and couldn't be rectified unfortunately. Since then four of five of us have been getting all the files back online and when you do the reload it always shows you as the submitter. Where we know the originator we definitely name them but I personally have no idea who submitted what other than the files I myself uploaded. That's where you and anyone else who submitted content comes in. If any of you know who submitted particular files just let us know in a forum post and we'll happily edit the magazine page to reflect that. We want people who contributed mags to get the recognition they deserve 100% & Jake and everyone else getting the site back up and running will agree with me wholeheartedly. Things here have been pretty full on for the last week but we are now not that far off getting back to full-steam ahead and where some of us can get back to actually scanning magazines again. I know I will be way less stressed when that time comes. So everyone relax and remember this is a hobby that should be enjoyed. So go grab a magazine you haven't read yet and chill with some great literature & if you're old enough ... a good beer or two.