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Well, if you like to preserve using good quality and preserving also the original layout of the pages (not only a simple TXT), it is not unreasonable. Some Magazines in PDFs with many pages, images, and colors, for example, cannot occupy little disk space in terms of Mb. For the Books, the PDF can be lighter of course but it depends on what you want to preserve. I have seen some smaller PDFs of books that have a bad quality and it is especially discovered when when you zoom in on the page. With low-quality text and serrated font graphics. You have to think about preservation in the future as well because maybe what you see on the screen today might be acceptable enough even at low quality, but as the years go by and technology advances with more and more defined screens, a low-quality scan today might be completely inadequate in a few years. My thought is that it is better to try to preserve as best you can today, also because today there is not this problem of not having storage space available as there used to be in the past. Then who knows if maybe what takes up so much today because it is qualitatively superior may not take up less space in the future because new, more efficient, lossless compression algorithms will be invented but at least most of the work is already done.

It took me a few moments to digest this news I am truly sorry for your loss, Kevin. It is a great loss to the whole community as well. I used to exchange messages with your dad from time to time because he was always doing and writing very interesting things, he had a great archive of things that he was able to share by enhancing them and that's what I like to do so much too, that's why I used to follow him closely. In these last months, I hoped and prayed that I could see one of his posts appear on this board again, to know that cancer has won the fight is a strong sorrow instead. I will pray for him and also want to believe, like you, that your dad is now in peace and achieved eternal serenity. I also like to think that he has met with the other 99ers enthusiasts and they are regrouping as best they can with their TI-99/4As among the stars. A big hug. Ciro

Wow! I really hope it can be used and updated for something new thanks for sharing this

for the DiskCopy option, I always created different folders with all possible formats SSSD, DSSD, SSDD, DSDD, and 50 empty disk images in each folder as you thought indeed. Better to use the same empty image format of the disk so that you will save time because otherwise, the system will need to format the images if it recognizes a different format among the Original and the backup image. I hope you will succeed . Archival and preserving material is also my passion.

For my convenience and because I have always felt comfortable I use Disk Manager 1000 v6.00 This is because I find it present among the software that is part of the XB v2.7 cartridge and now I know it by heart with commands so I go pretty fast to use it. It also allows me to make copies of individual files and this helps to save the salvageable to a disk with errors only on a part of the disk. I don’t have much experience with other copiers so in case I would also be happy to discover something new and better. If floppies are copy-protected, this may not be enough. but I found very few and only the originals mostly.

@Atari2600PAL I have backed up about 7000-8000 floppies of both formats, 5.25 and 3.5, and about 1500 cassette tapes. for the Floppy disks, if you have the possibility, I can only suggest using the TI99 + PEB + Gotek (or similar) solution. I have also tried firsthand other newer peripherals such as Greaseweasel or previously even Kryoflux and have not had the same results with the certainty of operation. These cards pass over any read errors often creating backups that may not work, maybe you see the files in the disk images but then, you could discover they are to be corrupted (all or partially). This also happens because the floppies are often old and dirty and after a few reads (but if the floppy is very dirty even one read is enough) the heads get dirty and the reads give more errors all the time, the heads need to be cleaned often. By making the copy using the actual PEB with a Gotek or HxC SD instead, indeed, it takes longer but in the end, you are sure that if the disk was copied it means that the read was successful and therefore the copy is working. By the way, when the floppies give errors and I can't back up I have procedures that I follow. First of all, I use a head cleaning kit right away at the first errors and then I try the reading again. In some cases, the head may also have become very dirty, and the drive may no longer read any disk and the cleaning disk may not be sufficient. At that point, I act directly on the floppy drive head using a cotton swab (gently). If it still doesn't go I put the floppy disk aside because then I will try it on other drives floppy models (I have about ten different ones) because often the mechanics and the alignment of the head or the different stepper motor can also give different results. If even this last try fails, before I give up at all on the floppy with error, just as a last resort, I use a special floppy drive (built by a friend of mine), which allows me to clean the magnetic surface of the disk as it spins. With all these steps I have recovered quite a few floppies, and only by making the copy with the actual hardware do I have the confidence that everything works. I also checked other backups released over the years by other users who had used Kryoflux and half of the images, often were corrupted Just my two cents to explain my experience of doing this kind of thing. Then everyone does as they can

AntiAir http://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/antiair/#ti99

Thankyou Peter to have purchased that one

Oh wow, i never seen It before, and Is Is a official not-polyoptics peripheral 🤔 incredible. For which games they thought this One

I am sure that Greg @arcadeshopper could have the best solution for you in the U.S.

@HOME AUTOMATION It depends on whether you this could mean AI Of course, the main image is the usual image used for the original Imagic's distributions. I have enhanced it using PS to have a better resolution. then the idea to use the Imagic style and the TI styles mixed. Now I am working on the Ghostbusters Label and Manual I will see if I could use the AI for that.

this could be a manual cover idea for me - a Mixed TI<->Imagic Manual style 😛

@Nick99 Could it be a good label for you? I have created it for my cart. I Can work on a manual cover too. this is a PDF Atlantis Cart Label with Cut Lines.pdf

...(Summary of history to date) This magazine was published by a UK Retailer: Galaxy, Maidstone (editor anonymous but probably (never listed) Simon Sorsbie of Lantern Software and was distributed from TI Dealer Galaxy in Maidstone, Kent). TI-USER (UK-Galaxy), ran to at least 6 issues- and is fairly rare although there are at least one or two listed programs in TI Gamebase (I can't check now to be sure of it). Stephen Shaw also found two very poor (unscannable) photocopies: Issue 5 dated October 1984 and Issue 6 dated November 1984. Issue 6 has a four-line report on the massive TI get-together in Manchester on November 2nd, a half page on the commercial newsletter TIHCUC, and a plug for the International User Group. Three lines give the address of an unnamed "regular publication" which is well known today as "TI*MES". Issue 6 also has a review of the Atarisoft module "MOON BUGGY" After contacting Stephen to ask him to try scanning the pages anyway so that we could try to preserve them he agreed and so we began the exchange of scans The Issue n5 was already being scanned, restored, and cleaned page by page some months ago and Stephen Shaw shared it on Atariage in some of the threads I can't find now. the final update: The scan of an additional ultra-rare UK TI User issue, the n6, is now available at: https://ti99iuc.it/web/index.php?pageid=database_cerca&archivioid=84 Issue n6 was very hard to edit because the original one had very bad issues and it needed some work to have a final acceptable result. Original pages examples: - - All the pages have been edited, restored, and cleaned the best that I can. And you can find a completely new n6 now here ☺️ Additional info: all the other old scans have been updated, cleaning the new Stephen Shaw scans of issues 1,2,3 and 4. You can also download all the software published contained in the magazines. Hoping you can appreciate all the job, now you can enjoy ISSUE 6 and a lot of software ready to play. I would also like to thank Stephen whose patience and helpfulness made it possible to preserve these very rare issues of the magazine. NB: If anyone has copies of issues after still missing from the page, it would be great if you could let me or Stephen know about it please).

I really would like to receive a nanochess new game for the ti99... His borzork has been so perfect... I Always hope to see he come back again to the ti99 scene