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Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:43 pm
by exxos
http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/mags/mags.htm

All issues of AW and AC are going live over the next week or so. Some pages need rescanning, but rather than waiting more months while pages are checked & rescanned, I have compiled all the issues "as is" for the time being.

For the moment I am only allowing a few issues to be downloaded, simply due to if lots of people download the whole lot in one go, its going to slow the server down (which isn't mine). Once I get a idea on traffic/hits I will allow downloaded of more mags as the days go on.

I will post back in this thread when more go live. I Will also post when updates are done on the mags, mostly when/if they need to be updated due to blurred pages or bits chopped off etc.

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:14 pm
by CiH
Chris, awesome work! Thanks for doing this :cheers:

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:34 am
by wongck
Great stuff, Thanks :-) :cheers:

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:45 am
by exxos
:cheers:

About 7GB of downloads already, odd thing is, issues 1 and 4 are mostly being downloaded, not issue 2 and 3. Strange to say the least.

I am keeping a eye on the bandwidth ( I am not limited on it) I will try to keep a eye on it each day, so as soon as load drops, I will enable the next 4 issues. Its probably not a problem with not many people downloading issues, but just want to make sure I don't kill the server... again... :lol: 8)

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:50 am
by Zogging Hell
Must be something to do with subscriptions, weren't they on a three issue run?

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:24 pm
by TheNameOfTheGame
Awesome work! Thanks for scanning in these magazines, it will be so nice to have them in pdf.

I love your idea of "burgerware" :lol: so I donated. Not sure how much burgers cost over the pond, but hopefully it was enough. :cheers:

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:31 pm
by exxos
TheNameOfTheGame wrote:Awesome work! Thanks for scanning in these magazines, it will be so nice to have them in pdf.

I love your idea of "burgerware" :lol: so I donated. Not sure how much burgers cost over the pond, but hopefully it was enough. :cheers:

Many thanks for the donation :D :cheers: Yeah burgerware I think works well, There was a typo on it before, I missed the "r" out of burger :lol: :lol:

Dawn has been checking though the issues, seems to be about 2 pages on each issues of AW and AC which need scanning again. I think AW was a fraction to large to fit on the scanner, its mostly on those center pages where stuff spans across both pages, nothing important is chopped off, though I do have a A3 scanner but it really sux, so a bit of tweaking still to do yet :)

I do plan to edit the covers too as they have got a bit tatty over the years. Which is surprising really as they have been kept untouched pretty much since new.

:cheers:

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:17 pm
by exxos
I have enabled AC 5-8 now. Bandwidth seems to have been around 10GB over the past 2 days, so not a great deal really.

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:21 pm
by Mug UK

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:33 pm
by exxos

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:43 am
by TheNameOfTheGame
Great work for one of the best Atari magazines ever. So glad they are on the net at last. Wonderful to see it :D

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:32 am
by lschafroth
About the time these magazines came out I was trying out this new operating system called Windows 95. I installed it on a computer I pieced together and used the 31 floppies to install it. The 1040STfm was set aside. I wish I would have known about all these upgrades coming out during this time. I would have never taken the route I did.

I missed so many good things!!!!!

Lannie

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:32 am
by Mug UK
I'll do the cloud uploads over the weekend so that there's a mirror copy. When all the magazines are done, I'll also upload them to the newsgroups.

Sent by my Note III

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:36 am
by exxos
TheNameOfTheGame wrote:Great work for one of the best Atari magazines ever. So glad they are on the net at last. Wonderful to see it :D
My girlfriend Dawn scanned them for me :) She is busy re-scanning a couple of iffy pages in each issue, also mentioned for her to edit the front pages of the mags and "tidy" them up a bit. Make them look a bit more "new".

We do have plans to start scanning STF at some point in the near future. Though as there are so many of them, and so many pages, it will probably take a week to do a single issue. Think there was about 86 issues in total. So will probably take a year or so do 8O

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:29 pm
by Mug UK

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:02 pm
by [ProToS]
you can also find some ATARI mags an archive.org web

https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:54 pm
by dhedberg
Awesome! I once had them all in printed form, but threw them away in a moment of confusion! :(
Thanks a lot!
:cheers:

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:07 pm
by exxos
:) I may update the links on Monday so the AC ones are downloaded from muguk's list then I can start enabling the AW ones then...

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 10:50 pm
by exxos
Server gone quiet.. so the first 5 AW mags are now live :)

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:18 pm
by Carbon
Excellent work scanning these and making them available! Problem with the AC issue 4 link though as it has an extra h in the url.

Now does anybody have issues of ST Plus Fanzine they could scan? :D

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:58 pm
by Mug UK
AW issues are up on my cloud but the other half decided she wanted to (attempt to) beat me at Muppet Race Mania so I'll try and post the links tomorrow :-)

Sent by my Note III

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:02 pm
by exxos
Carbon wrote:Excellent work scanning these and making them available! Problem with the AC issue 4 link though as it has an extra h in the url.

Now does anybody have issues of ST Plus Fanzine they could scan? :D
oops, I changed the links to mug's URLs, must have be a copy/paste typo...

ST plus fanzine, I am pretty sure I have all those issues *somewhere* too..

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 6:50 am
by Mug UK

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:43 am
by exxos
All issues of AW and AC are now online.

We have touched up the covers to make them look more "like new" and currently re-scanning a few wonky pages. Higher resolution copies will be released as a DVD set in due course.

Re: Atari World & Atari Computing Mags going online

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:44 am
by Mug UK
I will reupload any enhanced versions next week then.

Sent by my Note III