Vic20 Magazines ??

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:07 am

I would check out magazines from the school library and type in the programs.

Even after careful proofreading, I discovered most of the programs had errors or didn't work at all! I had to also get the following issues for all of the corrections. That really pissed me off!

The funny part is that when I started Denial, a small newsletter, I made the same typos. Most of the programs had at least one error.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:35 am

I can't believe my eyes... 200 SEK for just two magazines...
http://www.tradera.com/auction/aid_11937223
And here too:
http://www.tradera.com/auction/aid_11937277
And the auctions are still active...

I have 16 Vic Rapport, 1 Vic News, 3 Commodore Rapport
plus a couple of others... (Aproximately 170 others, including
Dator Magazin, Hemdatornytt etc...)

Seems I'm sitting on a gold mind then... I could get 1600 SEK for
the Vic Rapports alone.

/Anders

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:37 am

The first combo seems more valuable than the second, but as always, it is about finding the right buyer and the right quantity. If you offered a lot of magazines in one, I'm sure that the price per issue would be lower than if you sold them one by one.

OTOH, there are people moving away from collecting computers & stuff to collecting computer magazines and books, much due to the magazines take less space and if stored properly, will not be as likely to break down as the computer itself will?

Lozza · Post by **Lozza** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:27 am

6502dude wrote:I think more time and money was spent on art work than on programming for some of those games.

Absolutely right !

Popular Computing Weekly was a good weekly publication in the UK, lots of Vic stuff.. ahead of its time really (I even got some shit published in it - anyone have a game called Pac Attack floating around ??? )

idrougge · Post by **idrougge** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:11 pm

Svenska hemdatorhacking had the "VIC-20 lever!" section, it even survived the name change to Svenska hemdatornytt.

Thomas Hechelhammer · Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:10 am

Jeff-20 wrote:Are you kidding? I am sitting on a stack of 'em right now. What language, country, year, etc. are you interested in? because there were plenty. Including the most recent, Denial Newsletter (smile). Anyone remember that?

I'm the proud owner of Denial Issues 1 to 3.

Now I wonder if there have been out any others, and I would like to have all of them.

Regards , Thomas

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:55 pm

Thomas Hechelhammer wrote:
Jeff-20 wrote:Are you kidding? I am sitting on a stack of 'em right now. What language, country, year, etc. are you interested in? because there were plenty. Including the most recent, Denial Newsletter (smile). Anyone remember that?
I'm the proud owner of Denial Issues 1 to 3.

Now I wonder if there have been out any others, and I would like to have all of them.

Regards , Thomas

Maybe Jeff or someone could make these issues available to the group?

Would be interested in seeing them

Brian

KilrPilr · Post by **KilrPilr** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:23 pm

Centallica wrote: Maybe Jeff or someone could make these issues available to the group?

Would be interested in seeing them

Brian

I second that motion!

Leo

Thomas Hechelhammer · Post by **Thomas Hechelhammer** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:46 pm

All three issues I own contain 26 pages printed paper, not the problem of scanning them.

Hopefully Jeffrey still owns the original files an can produce PDFs of them; if not I'll do my best and scan them this weekend.

-- Thomas

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:03 pm

I'll be in New York for a week. If it is not scanned by the time I come back, I will make PDFs for the main page.

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:55 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:I'll be in New York for a week. If it is not scanned by the time I come back, I will make PDFs for the main page.

Jeff's DA MAN

Brian

Thomas Hechelhammer · Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:22 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:I'll be in New York for a week. If it is not scanned by the time I come back, I will make PDFs for the main page.

Are there only the three issues existing I own or have there been produced some more?

--Thomas

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:43 am

Hey, I am in Manhattan! (on the hotel's internet with girlfriend waiting behind me, so I must hurry).

I am pretty sure there were four total. I will check as soon as I get back.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:04 am

I have all of the old issues. They are pretty embarrassing to look at now. I was a college slacker at the time.

I wanted to make a PDF, but the only problem is that I can't figure out how to scan them. I scan B&W at 300 DPI. It looks great, but the file size is much to large. When I shrink it down in photo shop (either by dimensions or DPI), it looks just awful. You can't read it.

I will put it up just as soon as I figure out how to scan it!

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:52 am

In Photoshop, it may help if you convert to gray scale and then resize using bi-linear or bi-cubic algorithm, instead of resizing them while still being in B&W mode. But yes, it is a difficult thing to do. PDF as such is not magical IMHO, it uses a LZH compression algorithm similar to GIF, at least for images up to 8-bit colour depth, dunno about other.

If the newsletters contain a lot of text, you may consider re-creating them through OCR and insert images into the document. Then generate a fresh PDF which will be considerably smaller.