Post by: libby on June 13, 2006, 06:52:50 PM
Post by: ltstanfo on June 13, 2006, 06:57:52 PM
If you want them, you are welcome to them but shipping may cost a bit.
Regards,
Ltstanfo
Post by: AmiDelf on June 13, 2006, 07:13:03 PM
(http://www.amitopia.net/Pics/magazines.jpg)
Post by: InTheSand on June 13, 2006, 08:25:44 PM
Nice stack of magazines!
Does anyone know if the likes of Future Publishing, etc, kept their original (presumably Postscript) layout files of all the old issues of Amiga Format, etc?
Has anyone ever attempted to contact these companies and ask if they have any plans to release them? It'd be great if they did, much like current PC magazines where they release a year or two's worth of PDFs of the back-issues...
- Ali
Post by: RobinGodd on June 13, 2006, 08:35:35 PM
Post by: libby on June 14, 2006, 07:06:51 PM
Thanks for the response - I'm actually interested in a particular issue of Amiga Computing: May 1991, issue 36. If you have or know someone who has, I'd be glad to buy.
Thanks much!
Libby :-)
Post by: davros on June 14, 2006, 09:10:05 PM
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Post by: jmbattle on June 15, 2006, 12:53:10 AM
I believe I owned that issue - may I ask what software was included on the cover disk? Furthermore, what is the 'easy to use Workbench replacement', surely not Scalos?
Take care,
James
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Post by: davros on June 15, 2006, 01:47:02 AM
Also a graphics ripper and a program for designing garden layouts.
The workbench replacement was something called WorkStation. This was a program based on a shareware package called SID. If I remember correctly; this was an early version of DOpus.
Post by: bhoggett on June 15, 2006, 02:06:17 AM
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davros wrote:
Coverdisk software was MED v3.00 and a game called Amiga-Tanx (link to details of game http://hol.abime.net/5409 )
Also a graphics ripper and a program for designing garden layouts.
The workbench replacement was something called WorkStation. This was a program based on a shareware package called SID. If I remember correctly; this was an early version of DOpus.
SID was like DOpus in function, but not an early version of DOpus itself. That came from a different stable - in fact Directory Opus was called something else before IIRC, but the name escapes me. SID was followed by SID II, which was a commercial product.
Were you after those programs? I do have that copy of Amiga Computing somewhere, but I'm not certain about the coverdisk. Even if I do have it, the chances that it would still work are pretty small.
I should add that the WorkStation was just SID plus some additional freeware utilities, with SID being configured to access them directly. At least I think that's what it was.
Post by: libby on June 15, 2006, 09:07:43 PM
Thanks also for the offer for a copy of article - much appreciated.
I'll keep looking to buy the issue - I am looking for the cover disk with it, to make it more difficult.
Thanks (or should I say Tankx?) again!
Cheers,
libby :-)
Post by: JimS on June 15, 2006, 10:58:25 PM
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InTheSand wrote:
Has anyone ever attempted to contact these companies and ask if they have any plans to release them? It'd be great if they did, much like current PC magazines where they release a year or two's worth of PDFs of the back-issues...
I've thought about it. I don't know how it is in the UK or downunder, but here in the states I think you'd have a hard time finding those publishers. Except for Amigaworld (CW Communications) , they all seemed to have vanished off the face of the Earth. :-/
Every now and then, I consider bringing them to the surface by releasing the 13.7 GB of scanned images on my HD... that will turn them up... or at least their lawyers. :-)
-Jim
Post by: jmbattle on June 16, 2006, 07:12:15 AM
James
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