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Post by fgasking »

Just wanted to quickly check, but i've got a few Home Computer Weekly magazines which I notice has a few games probably not yet preserved.

Would people like me to scan them and pop links here every so often when I get a chance?
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Post by Pedro Lambrini »

That would be great. I have a bit of time these days for doing a type-in or two. :)
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Would be great Frank :)

(plenty of type-ins need doing still over many magazines)
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Post by fgasking »

Cool!... i'll try and make a start today then a bit later. :)

I had to get a new scanner recently, and its a fair bit faster than the old one... and a lot less painful to use. Will post image links here as and when I add. Watch this space!...
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Off Topic: I've been meaning to scan all of my own paper documents to help clear out space, but at the moment, the process is slow and painful because I do it in photoshop. I want to properly size and crop pages. Can anyone recommend a program to speed up the process? Maybe something that will preset all of the variables so i can just run through the stack of papers like i'm photocopying.
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Post by fgasking »

Right, here's the first two for now (Two car based games it seems!):

Power Racer -- http://gtw64.retro-net.de/vicscans/powerracer.rar
Fast and Furious -- http://gtw64.retro-net.de/vicscans/fastnfurious.rar

I'll add more when I get chance!....

@Jeff - I think most scanners come with software bundled that allows for one button copying with presets. The Printer/Scanner combo that I have here (Canon Pixma MP270) has this kind of feature, though I use Photoshop and its import and normally don't have to do any repetitive dimension scanning.
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Post by Kweepa »

fgasking wrote:Right, here's the first two for now (Two car based games it seems!):
Description for Fast and Furious: Move around the platforms collecting handbags by running underneath them.

Handbags :D

(Thanks for posting!)
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Kweepa wrote:Description for Fast and Furious: Move around the platforms collecting handbags by running underneath them.

Handbags :D
:) ... I didn't notice that!, I should have maybe read the description then and not think of the film! :lol:

Will try and do some more tonight. Spotted an interesting C64/Vic/C16 16k adventure game in one issue, first part is a load of data statements, no conversion lines either.
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I've started typing in Power Racer. God, I forgot how annoying editing code on a Vic can be!
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Post by fgasking »

Two more for today:

Light Cycles -- http://gtw64.retro-net.de/vicscans/lightcycles.rar

Easter Adventure (16k multiformat game) -- http://gtw64.retro-net.de/vicscans/easteradventure.rar
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Excellent! Thanks for these games, I LOVE type-ins (too bad there are no news from the search for previously unpublished Papersoft mags).
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Post by Vic20-Ian »

could be easier to scan and ocr then copy paste into vice and correct the resulting proggy.
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Post by TBCVIC »

Pedro Lambrini wrote:I've started typing in Power Racer. God, I forgot how annoying editing code on a Vic can be!
Try an ABC-80, after that you'll love the Vic's code editing! :lol:
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Post by fgasking »

I did try OCRing the listings, but sadly the mistakes were so great that it would be better typing from scratch anyway to be honest.

Unless there is a particular OCR package which is good/better at recognising the printed character sets used?
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Post by hawk »

If you're after Home Computing Weekly magazines, try here.

http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/hcw/top_lvl.html

Oops...just found out that they've introduced a DVD purchase only...sorry for the mistake. It used to be free to download.
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