Actually I think that's a great idea. I may just start something out
very shortly!
BL wrote:
Stephane,
Here's an idea -- a random article
of interest scanned in and put on the site weekly! Would be a cool
thing to have.
Brad
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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 of them up. But yes... it
would require lots of time, space, and bandwidth. So right now the
status quo is much easier. :-)
Freddie Bingham wrote:
Have you considered 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 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...
Stick to covers/ToC - ZD is probably less likely to notice
and may not care all that much. But then, you don't get all
the interesting articles!
Contact ZD - High (?) chance of getting rejected, but
potentially permission to scan the articles.
The question is... how much does ZD care about these older magazines?
Would they be willing to let someone scan/display them for
free? The way I see it, this only generates interest for the
magazine. However, ZD may want to make people pay.
Any thoughts? Anybody know anyone at ZD? :-) Some of these
early articles are extremely interesting and very well
written. It really would be great to have them available.
Stephane
Jim Leonard wrote:
Regardless of how it turns out, please make sure to provide text or
text-aware file formats, like PDF that has been OCR'd, or DjVu (no
OCR'd text, but separates text and background graphics and
compresses
each with separate algorithm for better compression, also supports
progressive downloading and localized decoding which is great for
modem users (they can look at a section of the page without
downloading the whole thing)).
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. To help sweeten
the deal, tell them you're willing to cut up the magazines for the
best scan. Seriously. Crappy 300 DPI JPG scans that are warped
because the magazine binding is still intact won't impress anyone :)
However, you run a big risk of getting a cease and desist letter in
return. But since you already run the risk of that, you
might as well
contact them right now instead of running the site for two years,
building it up, and THEN getting the cease and desist letter.
I wish the best of luck, I personally would love to read
some of those
older reviews. If/When contacting ZD, make sure you 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...
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 that without incurring the wrath of ZD...
BL wrote:
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
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 related
to the time
period covered by the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World
magazine. Currently there is not a whole lot of textual
information
available, but you will find scans of the covers of most of the
first 100 issues, among other things. The goal is, of course, to
expand as time allows, and all suggestions/constructive
criticism/comments are welcome!
Anyhow, you are all welcome to take a look! I am hoping
that this
will prove to be a useful resource for the vintage gaming
community, as I do not believe that the information
provided by the
Museum is available elsewhere on the web.
You will find the museum at cgw.vintagegaming.org. Many, many
thanks to Freddie Bingham for hosting!
Oh, and never mind the March 20th date on the news page.
Amazingly,
we're 3 days early... :-)
Stephane
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