Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Stephane Racle
I have put up the first of (hopefully) many regular excerpts on the site. This one is from CGW issue #1 and mentions an Ultima pen-and-paper RPG! Note that the file isn't text-aware yet, but I intend ensure this is done in the near future. Enjoy! BL wrote: Stephane,

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread AvatarTom
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[SWCollect] Fw: NEW at Digital Press: Online Game Database/Search Engine

2004-03-19 Thread hughfalk
FYI... -Forwarded Message- From: Digital Press Wire Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 19, 2004 8:00 AM To: List Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NEW at Digital Press: Online Game Database/Search Engine This has been on our list of projects for a long, long tiime and I am happy to

Re: [SWCollect] Announcing the CGW Museum

2004-03-19 Thread Jim Leonard
Not all of us are on LCDs, John :-) ClearType is only applicable to LCD screens because it specifically leverages the luminance of *vertically*-oriented RGB elements. I hate CRTs so of course I keep it turned off (it degrades text on CRTs). John Romero wrote: Ok, heres a cool little trick

[SWCollect] PhillyClassic

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Chisarick
I realize it wasn't organized like last year, but is anyone going? Its this weekend. -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

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

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

[SWCollect] Lucas Classic Adventures

2004-03-19 Thread AvatarTom
Hi, could someone upload disk 6 of the Lucas Classic Adventures (Zak, Loom etc) for me please? I was installing and turns out they gave me two disk 5 (although label says disk 6). Thanks in advance :) Tom