Server troubles meant that for the last few months, there's been an embargo on magazine scan uploads. This has now been lifted, and I'm in the process of mirroring ~20GB of stuff I've been collecting from the internet over the last four or five months.
http://retrocdn.net/Special:NewFiles
I don't take any credit for doing any of the scanning (credits on the English side go to OldGameMags and Retromags - give them love and money), but having everything in one place (albeit at a sometimes lower resolution than the original source - my upload speeds aren't that great) is a great step forward in video game documentation and preservation, and helps, as all mirrors do, to keep this information up in the public domain. PDFs of gaming magazines from all over the world - we had a ton before, and now we have even more. Although I suppose you could have gone to Archive.org too.
Scans mostly range from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, and we've got stuff up there from all over the world in numerous languages. US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austraila, Japan and even a big batch from Argentina, plus tons of others. I uploaded something from Denmark yesterday. Portugal the day before.
Anyway just thought you'd like to know, as it makes for some fascinating reading and could drastically alter your opinions on things. Obviously what we really want is extra hands on deck to replicate pages like this for every game on site, but I've spent six years making similar calls and it doesn't always go down so well
And of course if you have the means to scan magazines (or anything relevant) that aren't up here, please let us know
http://retrocdn.net/Special:NewFiles
I don't take any credit for doing any of the scanning (credits on the English side go to OldGameMags and Retromags - give them love and money), but having everything in one place (albeit at a sometimes lower resolution than the original source - my upload speeds aren't that great) is a great step forward in video game documentation and preservation, and helps, as all mirrors do, to keep this information up in the public domain. PDFs of gaming magazines from all over the world - we had a ton before, and now we have even more. Although I suppose you could have gone to Archive.org too.
Scans mostly range from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, and we've got stuff up there from all over the world in numerous languages. US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austraila, Japan and even a big batch from Argentina, plus tons of others. I uploaded something from Denmark yesterday. Portugal the day before.
Anyway just thought you'd like to know, as it makes for some fascinating reading and could drastically alter your opinions on things. Obviously what we really want is extra hands on deck to replicate pages like this for every game on site, but I've spent six years making similar calls and it doesn't always go down so well

And of course if you have the means to scan magazines (or anything relevant) that aren't up here, please let us know
This post has been edited by Black Squirrel: 21 June 2016 - 04:26 PM