Re: ST Format- Autumn '89
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:18 pm
With the magazines not being allowed to be shared online it's a good incentive to collect the original printed media. For the most part ST Format was one amazing read and had some of the most fabulous covers of any magazine I've ever seen; it's definitely up there on my favourite magazines of any genre.
A few years back I bought a vast collection of Amiga Formats from someone who was otherwise going to send them to the dump (ironically I think you can download Amiga Format but I digress...). It cost me a lot of money, mostly on postage, but I had high hopes that Amiga Format was going to be just as good as its Atari namesake. Boy was in for some disappointment! Chock full of ads and dull articles with dreary and uninspired covers to top it off I now own a huge, heavy stack of paper of which I have next to no interest in perusing. Saying that I should probably give them a second look before I completely dismiss them but first impressions were not good at all I can tell you. I have nothing against the Amiga (I'm an equal rights kind of guy in any computer war, best of both worlds I say) so I'd say this was totally down to the staff at each magazine, it can make a huge difference never mind the subject. I can list many others that have either gone bad under new management or just have never been good and plenty more that haven't managed to last despite being superb reads.
Anyway, to go back to my first point, I have around 15 STFs I think so I have a long way to go but once I get some cash I'll be collecting them again you can be sure.
A few years back I bought a vast collection of Amiga Formats from someone who was otherwise going to send them to the dump (ironically I think you can download Amiga Format but I digress...). It cost me a lot of money, mostly on postage, but I had high hopes that Amiga Format was going to be just as good as its Atari namesake. Boy was in for some disappointment! Chock full of ads and dull articles with dreary and uninspired covers to top it off I now own a huge, heavy stack of paper of which I have next to no interest in perusing. Saying that I should probably give them a second look before I completely dismiss them but first impressions were not good at all I can tell you. I have nothing against the Amiga (I'm an equal rights kind of guy in any computer war, best of both worlds I say) so I'd say this was totally down to the staff at each magazine, it can make a huge difference never mind the subject. I can list many others that have either gone bad under new management or just have never been good and plenty more that haven't managed to last despite being superb reads.
Anyway, to go back to my first point, I have around 15 STFs I think so I have a long way to go but once I get some cash I'll be collecting them again you can be sure.
But the scanning process to save time would involve the magazines being destroyed...but on the plus side they will be saved forever as a digital copy with 1% compression in progressive JPEG format.