Given that the episodes are freely available both on Youtube and on the Internet Archive (with Stewart Cheifet as contributor and active poster in the message board) I'm pretty sure it's OK to download.

Stewart Cheifet is doing a great job by making these episodes public. Would love if for instance Cybernet got available as well from the creators.

vetz wrote:

the episodes are freely available both on Youtube and on the Internet Archive (with Stewart Cheifet as contributor and active poster in the message board)

Didn't know that - that's pretty damn cool of him.

Nice.

I wish Creative Computing / David H. Ahl's stuff were preserved in the public domain as well.

It's a little funny going back and seeing his 1999-2000 "you can download music for free legit" days with Napster, pretty much suggesting piracy on public broadcasting TV.

There's was this one time Thresh came on with a craptacular laptop that ran Q3 very slowly also, just before his pokemon master retirement days, which reminds me of that "tip" on The Screensavers "HERES A TIP FROM A GAMING PRO YOU CAN SHOOT THE DOORS TO OPEN THEM IN Q3A" some months later

Does anyone know if the very early issues of Byte from the 70's and 80's are archived anywhere? That was a golden age for that magazine.

sliderider wrote:

Does anyone know if the very early issues of Byte from the 70's and 80's are archived anywhere? That was a golden age for that magazine.

A quick google search suggests that Internet Archive may have them: http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

courtesy of Jason Scott, a person that sliderider loathes.

Do tell.

leileilol wrote:

courtesy of Jason Scott, a person that sliderider loathes.

Hahahahahahaha 🤣

A large number of Bytes can be had at AtariAge. I don't know how this collection compares to what's at Archive.org.

Is it the Roland drums I hear in the theme music during the 90s for Computer Chronicles (most noticable during the credits)?

These are the MP4 versions which are not the best versions of Computer Chronicles. In many episodes sound are not in sync and some episodes have been cut short of their running time.

I could download the MPEG2 versions and share that with my 60/60mbit unlimited fiber optic line as torrent? I'm currently seeding the MP4 files though.

Sorry to necro this but a seed of mpeg2 computer chronicles (and net cafe) would be way cool. Such an ordeal to get everything bit by bit.

While we're at it... TechTV Extended Play/ZDTV Gamespot TV please 😀

You know all those shows are still under copyright, right? You shouldn't be asking for torrents here.

All episodes have been uploaded to the Internet Archive, in some cases with metadata added by Stewart Chiefet himself (he is listed as an archivist), which makes people think that it's legal to request full series torrents. However it seems that what's been uploaded has been licensed from the Computer Chronicles owners and not for redistribution.

Or something.

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

the episode I mentioned 🤣

Well it's a shame that their method of distribution is so terrible.

I wasted hours and hours downloading the mp4 versions piecemeal (i have 423 episodes).. Then had to find out which episodes were in sync/missing audio/actually government videos about venereal disease (really!). Then trying to work out which episode was part of which season (tvdb helps here) due to their terrible naming schema. Doing it again for improved quality makes me despair really,

I do love the show however - essential viewing for anyone on this forum.

They also have some duplicate episodes up there, like the one I linked has a duplicate dated in 2001.