Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-20 Thread Stephane Racle
:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum   Absolutely right, thanks for catching that! I think it's properly identified on the site. I'm curious about that Ultima pen-and-paper RPG too. Any Ultima collectors have more info? I'm gue

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-20 Thread Jim Leonard
Stephane Racle wrote: Funny you mention that. That's what I tried to use yesterday when I put up the excerpt from CGF #1. It did a reasonable job (actually, an excellent job), for anything with a light background. The problem was with text areas with darker backgrounds (for example, the Ultima

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-20 Thread Edward Franks
On Mar 20, 2004, at 3:25 AM, John Romero wrote: Another funny thing about that little Ultima article was the talk about Ultima V shipping in September.  Heh.  At Applefest 87 the big posters said “Arriving October 31st: Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny”.  The game didn’t ship until March 31, 1987.

U4 Part II was Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-20 Thread Edward Franks
On Mar 20, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Stephen Emond wrote: [Snip] Do you know anything more about “Ultima IV Part II”? If you have the article I’d love to read it. Subtitled: The Avatar Kicks Back and Has A Cold One? ;-) -- Edward Franks --

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-20 Thread Stephen Emond
  Steve     From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum   Absolutely right, thanks for catching that! I think it's properly identified on the site. I'm curious ab

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Stephane Racle
Funny you mention that. That's what I tried to use yesterday when I put up the excerpt from CGF #1. It did a reasonable job (actually, an excellent job), for anything with a light background. The problem was with text areas with darker backgrounds (for example, the Ultima tidbit and the Data E

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Chisarick
I just got a chance to take a look (its been a truly awful week @ work), and it is a thing of beauty. Crisp scans, good color, (an appropriate watermark)... definitely a next best thing (to owning the actual mags). I was going to scan my Computist collection as PDF files. While I've never us

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Jim Leonard
, March 18, 2004 11:36 AM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Currently it's image only due to the fact that it's only the covers and the Table of Contents. I did, however, plan to include some text information about each issue. If I do end up putt

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 03/18/2004 9:45:36 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of blurry, a friend of mine went for LASIK eye surgery today and they messed it up! Thank goodness he's OK, but he had to suffer the pain and will have to endure 3 months of healing, then undergo th

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Stephane Racle
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Hehe. You may be willing to cut up my magazines, but I'm not! Well, I'd cut up duplicate issues. It probably wouldn't be too difficult for issues 25 and up, but the earlier ones can be difficult to find. I guess

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-18 Thread Stephane Racle
n, looks awesome. If your ultimate plan is to have the entire mags scanned, I can't wait! Brad - Original Message - From: "Stephane Racle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "swcollect"

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-18 Thread Stephane Racle
al Message- From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:10 PM To: swcollect Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum   Hugh, I'm actually not familiar with the mini-reproduction you're talking about. Is it an actual paper reproducti

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-18 Thread Stephane Racle
al Message - From: Stephane Racle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Yes, I have LOL. But it's not so bad if it's progressively. A few now, a few then... might take a year to get all

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-18 Thread Tomas Buteler
actually call > > people on the phone; email inquiries to generic > addresses rarely get > > to the *right* person. > > > > Feldhamer, Stuart wrote: > > > >> Hey, if you approach it the right way, they might > even pay you to do > >> it... > &

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-18 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 03/18/2004 12:10:19 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What a bunch of jerks. Hmm, not sure I would call them "jerks" Stuart, they did try to send you something. More like incompetent. If you'd like some stories about "jerks" and have a lot of time to listen

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stuart Feldhamer
-From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:58 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum I bought this one on the news stand…it may have been a news-stand pack in.  This happened a few times in the past and

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Hugh Falk
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum   That's odd...I'm a subscriber and I'm pretty sure I didn't get this reproduction.   Stuart -Original Message- From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stuart Feldhamer
That's odd...I'm a subscriber and I'm pretty sure I didn't get this reproduction.   Stuart -Original Message-From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:31 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Hugh Falk
(including some ads).   Hugh   -Original Message- From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:10 PM To: swcollect Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum   Hugh, I'm actually not familiar with the mini-reproduction you're tal

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
be worth putting on your site, even though it is more recent. Hugh -Original Message- From: Stephane Racle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 17, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Hehe. You may be willing to cut up my magazines,

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread hughfalk
ginal Message- From: Stephane Racle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 17, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Hehe. You may be willing to cut up my magazines, but I'm not! Well, I'd cut up duplicate issues. It probably wouldn't be

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread BL
ED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Hehe. You may be willing to cut up my magazines, but I'm not! Well, I'd cut up duplicate issues. It probably wouldn't be too difficult for issues 25 and up, but the earlier ones can be difficult to find. I guess the options are..

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
d the time it would take to scan 100 magazines? :eek: Freddie Vintage Gaming - http://www.vintagegaming.org -Original Message- From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
issue of CGW were some articles about Silas' RobotWar. Very cool. Luckily, Wolf3D made it in issue 98! :) - John -Original Message- From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:02 AM To: swcollect Subject: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Freddie Bingham
gt; Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum > > Hehe. You may be willing to cut up my magazines, but I'm not! > Well, I'd cut up duplicate issues. It probably wouldn't be > too difficult for issues 25 and up, but the earlier ones can > be difficult to find.

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
erson. Feldhamer, Stuart wrote: Hey, if you approach it the right way, they might even pay you to do it... Stuart -Original Message- *From:* Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:49 AM *To:* swcollect *Subject:* Re: [SWCollect] A

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread John Romero
ncing the CGW Museum I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World (CGW) Museum, is finally on-line! The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all CGW items related to the time period covered by the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Jim Leonard stated: >As for approaching it the right way, tell ZD about your project and ask >that you are willing to host the pages, do all the scanning, tell them >you'll offer pages in multiple formats, etc. and that all you ask in >return is permission from the company to do so. >However, y

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Matthew A. Murray
> -Original Message- > From: Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:02 AM > To: swcollect > Subject: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum > > I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World > (CG

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Leonard
ch it the right way, they might even pay you to do it... Stuart -Original Message- *From:* Stephane Racle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:49 AM *To:* swcollect *Subject:* Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum Doubtful I could do t

RE: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Feldhamer, Stuart
TECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:01 AM Subject: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World (CGW) Museum, is finally on-line! The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all CGW items relat

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
collect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:01 AM Subject: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World (CGW) Museum, is finally on-line! The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and present

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 03/17/2004 2:02:09 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cgw.vintagegaming.org Very nice Stephanie :) Looks like I was visitor #10. I like the text adventure theme for the links too!! Tom Visit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of Ultima

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread BL
Great job man, looks awesome. If your ultimate plan is to have the entire mags scanned, I can't wait! Brad - Original Message - From: "Stephane Racle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "swcollect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:01 AM Su

[SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-17 Thread Stephane Racle
I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World (CGW) Museum, is finally on-line! The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all CGW items related to the time period covered by the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World magazine. Currently there is no