WOW! Again, Thanks a lot! This is wonderful! 😁

You don't know how much I love collecting articles on old computer gaming related stuff. I have already collected most of the finished past issues from CGW museum.

I believe the best way to preserve printed material is digital, since digital matter cannot get worn by environment, and you can keep multiple copies of them, and later, if desired, can be re-produced on paper.

But, yeah, don't destroy your mags' bindings. You are holding some antiques, and better preserve them that way. Let's just hope someone else will be able to upload high quality PDFs later on somehow.

I know this is too much of an asking, since what you have already done is a colossal work, but any way, is it possoble to zip these copies or convert them into pdf format and upload them? It'll be easier to download and read at once.

Again, thanks for your great effort! 😀

Good work swaaye, much appreciated! I already knew the ultimate soundcard roundup, as you posted it before and I saved a copy. I have many old issues of a local computer games magazine myself, very funny, but the few hardware articles in there are a joke compared to CGW. You did a good job with the scanner, all is straight and the font size is just right.

This must be the CGW archive then: CGW archive

Malik wrote:

I know this is too much of an asking, since what you have already done is a colossal work, but any way, is it possoble to zip these copies or convert them into pdf format and upload them? It'll be easier to download and read at once.

Sure, I'll zip them up. Have to find a host for the ~40 MB zips a few of them will be.

gerwin wrote:

You did a good job with the scanner, all is straight and the font size is just right.

They are ok. I do a lot better now though. I should have scanned these at 300dpi and made lossless backups. They could be straighter too, but I can't edit these without making them worse. I also could've done better on the levels of black/white.

The more dot density the better because when you shrink them down you then get lots of supersampling and it cleans up the print quality dramatically. My USB 1.0 scanner however starts to take a LONG time per page (minutes) at 600 dpi or more.

Yes that sounds like a good scanning procedure... And put them through an OCR program so the text is no longer bitmapped. 😉
The starfleet issue has a picture of the Crystalake 140, I never managed to find a picture of that sound card before.

duke nukem forever featured
I didnt realise it was out 😉

didnt know Requiem: Avenging Angel
was once known as Requiem: Wrath of the Fallen

gerwin wrote:

The starfleet issue has a picture of the Crystalake 140, I never managed to find a picture of that sound card before.

This mag is how I know about the card. I should have bought one of those cards back then.

Davros wrote:

duke nukem forever featured

I wonder what the count is for feature articles for that game. 😀

Add zip files

thanks for #149, mine was torn up due to its big fatness and weight :}

a big chunk of pages were cut out though. lots of skipping in that nov 95 one near the end but I guess you weren't too interested in scanning the awful porn game ads that had funny self censorship

leileilol wrote:

a big chunk of pages were cut out though. lots of skipping in that nov 95 one near the end but I guess you weren't too interested in scanning the awful porn game ads that had funny self censorship

Nonsense. I would never intentionally skip porn ads! More likely, I was getting burned out on scanning it 🤣.

CGW with porn ads. Just another example of how gaming has gone all kiddy on us.

Thanks so much for the zipped files, swaaye! 😀

Most commendable effort, swayee. I always love preservation attempt like this.

Nice job! Those magazines bring back some memories.
I used to have a few years worth of CGW but gave it away during one of the moves 🙁
One suggestion about scanning -- if you need to scan a lot of books or magazines, get Plustek OpticBook 3600. I've been using it for about two years. Scanning 150 pages magazine should take about one hour at 300dpi. Alignment is also rarely an issue. It's not the greatest scanner quality-wise and it is somewhat pricey for its class but for book scanning it beats everything this side of dedicated book scanner -- and I don't have to tell you how much the dedicated scanner costs.

If you have any more of the "Ultimate Gaming PC" articles, like the Jan. 1997 one you posted, I'd love to see those.

There are Ultimate Gaming PC articles every year. Maybe I'll look another one up. Ultimate Windows 98SE PC or some such 😀