To address your first point: I have no idea where most of these scans came from. Which I hadn’t done yet (I’m a busy chap, as the lack of updates here reflects), so don’t panic! I didn’t delete your post all comments are “moderated” so they don’t appear until I click the little “approve” button. The other factor is mobile devices a la iPads – I personally enjoy having a few issues of something retro on my iPad for browsing, and if the files were too big it could easily fill up a tablet. OK, it’s not 300DPI TIFF quality, but it’s good enough until we all get gigabit internet and holographic storage (which I think was predicted by now in Amiga Format 😉 ) I’ve done some “blind samples” involving family members, and I’m happy the quality is pretty damn good.
So I’m compressing them down to 150DPI JPGs, between 85% and 95% quality, resulting in a file of around 100Mb an issue.
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Plus those files take longer to open and view on anything except the beefiest PC or Mac. This generates a nice big file of 3 -5 Gigabytes depending on the number of pages- and that’s per issue! Multiply that the 300-odd issues of all the above combined … it’s nearly a terabyte. I’m doing my own scans for Amiga Shopper/Power/Format and NCE at the moment, scanning them as 300DPI lossless 8-bit TIFFs. Firstly, in the “v3” scans I’m not doing ANY recompression – the images are from the original scans, so they’re as good/bad as the originals, it’s beyond by control.
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This is about as good as I can get it.Įventually all v1/v2 collections will be replaced with v3.Įverything here is free (“as in beer”), but if you’d like to help me get more mags online:Īny amount will help – see the FAQ for more details.ĭo you have a collection of tatty, rotting magazines that haven’t been scanned yet that you’d like to donate to a good home? Or have a question/comment? Feel free to contact me at pros and cons to both approaches. These should be (almost) as good as the original images (there is a very slight change in contrast in some collections due to changing DPI, but honestly you’ll never notice unless you’re as picky as me). V3: Re-OCR’d straight from source images, this time with NO decompression. Therefore, the file size will be smaller, but having been recompressed twice the image has lost a little bit of quality. V2: The v1 images were recompressed to get them back to something approaching the original image quality. However, the image was recompressed during the process, which made the files up to double the size of the originals and marginally impacted quality. V1: OCR’d directly from the source image. The version number reflects the method that was used: I’ve refined the OCR’ing process over time. It’s a fantastic history of the man and his machines, as long as you can ignore the tabliod-esque sarcastic tone running through the text. Sinclair and the ‘Sunrise’ Technology (EPUB/MOBI formats) – a “classic” hatchet job on Uncle Clive and his harebrained schemes. Zzap 64! / Commodore Force plus “bonus” issue 107 Computer and Video Games plus 1984/1985 “Yearbooks”
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