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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: DLH on August 31, 2010, 05:40:13 PM
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Volumes 1-14 (All 158 issues) are now available online for download.
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore (http://www.bombjack.org/commodore)
I will post the 9 AC Guides that have been scanned in the next few days. Unfortunately one of those is still misgging :confused: Check and see if you have any that have not been scanned if you don't mnid.
Lots more to come.
Enjoy
DLH
DLH@bombjack
www.bombjack.org/commodore (http://www.bombjack.org/commodore)
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What a great public service! Loved that magazine back in the day. Just read the editorial in the last issue. So sad, especially knowing what was yet to come!
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Wow! That is awesome!
I notice a lack of Amiga "three ring binder" manuals from your list there. Do you need those? I know I've got the manuals that came with my A1000 -- in the very least: AmigaDOS 1.0, Graphicraft, Textcraft (i did see that one there), ABasic (not a typo), AmigaBasic (same as the one you have there, i think)
Also a 1.1 (i think?) addendum to the 1.0 release, or was it an addendum packaged with the 1.0 software. It's been a while since I looked at those huge binders.
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Thank you for your great effort!
I am waiting for the Amiga Format issues :)
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I just ordered the DVD set (the 8 bit stuff). Looking forward to when there's a DVD set available for the Amiga stuff too...
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Looking forward to when there's a DVD set available for the Amiga stuff too...
+1
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Shazam!
Totally forgot about this site! Awesome job.
Video Toaster/Flyer and Lightwave related information goldmine with VTUser, NewTekniques.
uhmmm... what's "Comming Soon" actually mean? :)
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Man, I hope he gets .info! (In case I hadn't already mentioned that)
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So cool, thanks a bunch.
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http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/info/info.htm
Are you talking about these?
I should post a link to them, along with the Compute Special Amiga Editions.
Enjoy
DLH
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Coming Soon means exactely that
In between my last projects I had 2 days at home. Just enough time to get laundry done and pack.
I will get the issues shown with pictures that have already been scanned posted in the new week or so.
I wanted to get the main page upload for Video Toaster User so people could see what I have and what is missing.
Glad to see there is interest in these.
DLH
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http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/info/info.htm
Are you talking about these?
I should post a link to them, along with the Compute Special Amiga Editions.
Enjoy
DLH
THOSE are THEY and YOU are AWESOME!
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Thank you for your great effort!
I am waiting for the Amiga Format issues :)
Future Publishing are very aggressive about their IP appearing for download/sale on the internet so you will have a long wait ;)
To be fair to them, as they explained it to me, the issue is not that they don't want to allow the various Format or other Future owned Amiga related publication issues to be made available but the freelance contributions in ST or Amiga Format to which they only had permission to produce once...in the actual magazine at the time of printing, therefore they don't have the authority to allow someone else's copyrighted works to be distributed in any form and so will never give their blessing for such projects.
I had considered doing AF but the situation with Future is not a big incentive to be honest....especially not the ham fisted charge matrix ebay now applies to people who want to sell magazines on ebay with their ridiculous min postal charge fees enforced, making acquiring the missing issues quite laborious and expensive.
(nobody can sell bulk lots of mags like in the past now as the max postal charge is something stupid like 2 bucks and their fees are so pathetic selling them one by one isn't worth the effort for most I guess...idiot ebay lol)
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Thanks for posting these magazines. I was a contributing writer for "Amazing"
back in the late 80s/early 90s and it's great to see that these old mags are
still appreciated and being preserved.
BobD
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@DHL
We need your address so we can send you Video Toaster User magazines please.
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EMAIL sent with mailing address.
thanks
DLH
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Thanks for posting these magazines. I was a contributing writer for "Amazing"
back in the late 80s/early 90s and it's great to see that these old mags are
still appreciated and being preserved.
BobD
I'll second that, Bob! I found the first article I wrote about the Amiga the other day.
If anyone ever wants to recreate the history of the Amiga, roomers and all, Amazing is an excellent archive.
Bob
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What an AWESOME site/resource. I checked out the extensive commodore magazine section and came across a magazine as a 10 year old I use to read - Family Computing. I remember awaiting each issue with tremendous anticipation... I had a Coleco Adam at the time and would type in all the programs listed for it (or Apple II with minor tweaks- same Basic Language). Then when my Commodore 64 arrived I went back and added those!
Thank you so much for preserving so much of the joys of my childhood. Very soon I'll be ordering your DVD set!
Thanks
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I love this!
it's like seeing old friends
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Wonderful! Now I can quit hoarding many many boxes of Amiga mags, including the rare ACTech and Transactor series which you seem to have. Thanks!
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Look through and see what you have that is still missing.
Contributions and loans of material will help fill in the gaps.
Most later magazines (stapled ones) can be easily scanned by removing the staples. A 100 page magazine takes about 15-20 minutes total time to take apart, scan, start OCR and put back together.
Enjoy
DLH
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Wonderful job! Really!
Still no chance for the Amiga World Tech Journal disks to be imaged?
And if ever you had the chance to add the french magazine Amiga News Tech, it would be wonderful too!
Many thanks!
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Wonderful job! Really!
Still no chance for the Amiga World Tech Journal disks to be imaged?
And if ever you had the chance to add the french magazine Amiga News Tech, it would be wonderful too!
Many thanks!
I imaged the floppies that I got with the magazines. Most were still sealed in the magazines.
I have Vol 1 (1-5) and Vol 2 (1 & 2). I will try and get those online tomorrow evening.
Point me in the right direction to get that french magazine and I will get it added. Just starting to add other languages due to requests.
DLH
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Congratulations on making this resource available.
I own www.amigaformat.com (http://www.amigaformat.com) domain and was wondering if you're thinking of doing the same with the Amiga Format magazines?
There are a total of 136 magazines in all along with 9 or so specials! I"ve got a few of the specials and the very last issue of Amiga Format that I am in the process of scanning.
There are also some of the Amiga Formats that have already been scanned in full on other sites....do you feel like taking on a challenge?
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Personally I loved reading the German magazine "Amiga Magazin" by Markt & Technik and going to the "Messe" in Koln. The community in Germany was always big...
Any chance of those appearing online in your collection ;-) ?
They are always bound by stapels in the back if I remember correctly, so with a A3 scanner...
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I imaged the floppies that I got with the magazines. Most were still sealed in the magazines.
I have Vol 1 (1-5) and Vol 2 (1 & 2). I will try and get those online tomorrow evening.
Thank you very much!
Point me in the right direction to get that french magazine and I will get it added. Just starting to add other languages due to requests.
Unfortunately, I never owned any copy of Amiga News Tech myself... Only rumour has it being very interesting for developers. But it was very expensive, and I couldn't afford it. I do hope some owner of them is reading us and would accept to scan and/or share them.
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Personally I loved reading the German magazine "Amiga Magazin" by Markt & Technik and going to the "Messe" in Koln. The community in Germany was always big...
The highlight of several vacations where we drove through Germany (from Norway, via Sweden/Denmark), was picking up Amiga and C64 magazines mostly from Markt & Technik ... They, combined with Das Guru Buch, were probably the main factors to get me to actually care about doing well in my German lessons at school.
(Ok, I just realized I claimed that the highlight of several of my summer holidays was to buy computer magazines - at guess that sounds a bit sad :) )
64'er was fantastic. I hope someone will contribute copies of that. (EDIT: I see http://www.homecomputerworld.de/ has a bunch of articles etc. from 64'er, but unfortunately not full issue scans)
Also, people, don't forget the Amiga Magazine Rack, though in general the pages available is quite spotty it also has a few non-English magazines: http://amr.abime.net/magazines
(a joint effort to consolidate the two sets would be amazing...)
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Awesome work!! Thank you so much :)
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This is a fantastic labour of love and all Amigans and other computer fans surely must thank you so much for your dedication and hard work in getting this resource to this stage.
I salute you!
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I imaged the floppies that I got with the magazines. Most were still sealed in the magazines.
I have Vol 1 (1-5) and Vol 2 (1 & 2). I will try and get those online tomorrow evening.
I Just got them! Thank you very much!
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Yay. I just got the whole 23 DVD set of the 8-bit mags.... If you don't see me around for a year or so, you know who to blame..
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very cool, I admire all the work you did
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Hi,
Rashumon was probably the first and only multilingual graphic word processor for the Amiga.
I have written a post (http://www.amiga.org/forums/blog.php?b=407)about how it was developed back in 1989.
For several years there is a Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashumon) about Rashumon.
There is now a debate whether to keep or delete this article.
If you have an opinion about that matter, Please express it in this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rashumon
If you have more reliable sources such as magazine reviews, etc. please send them to me.
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Yay. I just got the whole 23 DVD set of the 8-bit mags.... If you don't see me around for a year or so, you know who to blame..
Thanks to you I was able to locate articles such as this one (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68508173@N07/9566511710/)
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Hi,
Rashumon was probably the first and only multilingual graphic word processor for the Amiga. It was used mainly by people who needed to use multiple languages. There is a working version at Aminet (http://aminet.net/search?query=rashumon), and even though it was a commercial product, I recently published that I will give the source code to anyone who will be interesting in working on a new version.
I have written a post about how it was developed back in 1989 in my blog here (http://www.amiga.org/forums/blog.php?b=407).
For several years there is a Wikipedia page about Rashumon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashumon).
There is now a debate whether to keep or delete this article.
I was asked (and did my best) to locate reliable sources about that product. I scanned and downloaded articles and news items from Amiga World, Amazing Computing, Amiga User International (UK) and even found articles published in Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy and the UK. I placed the scans here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/68508173@N07/).
If you have an opinion about that matter, Please express it in this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...etion/Rashumon).
(Apparently new Wikipedia members can't vote)
If you have more reliable sources such as magazine reviews, etc. please send them to me.
Thanks,
Michael Haephrati
haephrati@gmail.com
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Excellent job mate !:drink:
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Thanks.
Excellent job mate !:drink:
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AWESOME job. Keeping it in my bookmarks. An authentic goldmine!
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Do you take payments other than via Paypal?
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Just ordered the amiga dvds! Dont want to imagine how much time it would have taken to dl these...:insane:
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Man... those magazines brings back some memories... of the tens of thousands of dollars I spent on full page advertising!
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Future Publishing are very aggressive about their IP appearing for download/sale on the internet so you will have a long wait ;)
To be fair to them, as they explained it to me, the issue is not that they don't want to allow the various Format or other Future owned Amiga related publication issues to be made available but the freelance contributions in ST or Amiga Format to which they only had permission to produce once...in the actual magazine at the time of printing, therefore they don't have the authority to allow someone else's copyrighted works to be distributed in any form and so will never give their blessing for such projects.
I had considered doing AF but the situation with Future is not a big incentive to be honest....especially not the ham fisted charge matrix ebay now applies to people who want to sell magazines on ebay with their ridiculous min postal charge fees enforced, making acquiring the missing issues quite laborious and expensive.
(nobody can sell bulk lots of mags like in the past now as the max postal charge is something stupid like 2 bucks and their fees are so pathetic selling them one by one isn't worth the effort for most I guess...idiot ebay lol)
How come other Amiga magazines published by companies other than Future Publishing are available then? Is it because the companies who published them have gone bust, or for some other reason? I've never heard this excuse about freelance contributors before!
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Copyrights last life of the author plus 75 years, so just because the magazine is out of business does not mean that the copyrights are not enforceable. If the magazines had one time run agreements with individuals, then the owners of the magazine can not release that info to the public without permission of the copyright holder. It's as simple as that. Some people seem to think that vintage computer software and magazines should be freely available. That will never (legally) be the case.
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I believe I have all the mags on paper, including the tech journals, but what I've been looking for is some sort of general index, at least of of all the reviews. Anybody heard of such a thing?