developerdude Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Hello All, Does anyone know of a hi-res collection of vintage computer magazine covers? I wanted to check here before I started searching and scanning on my own. I going to make a screensaver (as well as desktop wallpaper collection) for Mac & PC's. My particular favorite magazine from my early days are the COMPUTE! for Atari magazines. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamm Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Have you searched on Archive.org? A lot of magazines have been scanned there (with varying degrees of quality). For example: https://archive.org/search.php?query=compute magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin1968 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Oh how I loved COMPUTE! and Antic! I could not wait to get my hands on those when I was a kid! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilsaluki Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I was fortunate. I bought every issue of Antic. In 1991 (or so) they had a $99 deal. All their remaining issues in stock, plus the disks for them. It was a big thing to spend that much on those mags. The box was really heavy. In fact, I have 4 or 5 issues by my bedside. I re-read them about once a year. It's fun to look at those old ads for gear and software. Some I wish i bought back in the day. Oh well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pusakat Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 You might want to check out https://www.atarimagazines.com to see if the cover scans there suit your purpose. There are some issues that are missing though and you can probably start with scanning those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venom4728a Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 13 hours ago, gilsaluki said: I was fortunate. I bought every issue of Antic. In 1991 (or so) they had a $99 deal. All their remaining issues in stock, plus the disks for them. It was a big thing to spend that much on those mags. The box was really heavy. In fact, I have 4 or 5 issues by my bedside. I re-read them about once a year. It's fun to look at those old ads for gear and software. Some I wish i bought back in the day. Oh well. Do you by chance have Antic disk Volume 3 #2 June 1984 and Volume 3 #3 July 1984? I know those are the two disks that are missing from the archive. My father had a subscription to Antic for many years, I am sure we most likely have/had this disk at one time. It may still be in my father basement. Can you make an ATR of those 2 disks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I was thinking the same thing! If you have access to those disks, gilsaluki, that would be a great way to help out the Atari community, because I know there are a few missing disks, and I believe there are several that were double-sided or dual disk months, but only one is available. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
developerdude Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 Thanks for all the responses. I just wanted to check the forums before I went and created something redundant. I have checked all the regular sources such as archive.org, and found most of the full magazine scans in PDF form, which is a good start. So I will post and publish the files of magazine covers as a collection here and on other forums when it's ready. - Many thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Kline Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 9:08 AM, venom4728a said: Do you by chance have Antic disk Volume 3 #2 June 1984 and Volume 3 #3 July 1984? I know those are the two disks that are missing from the archive. My father had a subscription to Antic for many years, I am sure we most likely have/had this disk at one time. It may still be in my father basement. Can you make an ATR of those 2 disks? Here is the June 1984 .atr that I have immediately available as an .atr but if it doesn't work let me know because I am planning on .atr'ing up the other one (July 1984) for everyone... by this weekend, at the latest. When I do, I'll double-check for whether these ANTIC disks have a B-side to .atr up as well. And if there are any other ANTIC diskettes needed let me know, as I may have them, too, in floppy format and will .atr them up. I also have ANALOG diskettes, of course. Keep in mind that these disks may have all failed at some point, given their age. But I do otherwise make every effort to protect them from what I can, as long as I can, even though they came to me through one of my crazy Atari binge-buying sessions a few years back and I can't account for anything before my porch. --Tim 84_JUN.ATR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Kline Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I went ahead and .atr'd them both up, but there was nothing on the flipside of either disk. Imaged using Prosystem from Steve Tucker. --Tim ANTIC Vol 3 No 2 June 1984.ATR ANTIC Vol 3 No 3 July 1984.ATR 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
developerdude Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 I do have those volumes as .DCM files as well as all the Antic magazine (as PDF) and software disks. I'll try to make them into .ATR files and post them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venom4728a Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 4 hours ago, Timothy Kline said: I went ahead and .atr'd them both up, but there was nothing on the flipside of either disk. Imaged using Prosystem from Steve Tucker. --Tim ANTIC Vol 3 No 2 June 1984.ATR 90.02 kB · 6 downloads ANTIC Vol 3 No 3 July 1984.ATR 90.02 kB · 6 downloads Awesome!! Thank You! I did call my father and he dug through his room and found several more floppy disk storage boxes. He said that some say Antic on them. So as soon as our house arrest due to corona virus is up I am going to go see what there is. I have a kryoflux drive and 5.25 floppy drive i am figuring out how to use. But.. the head is now too dirty. I ordered a couple 5.25 head cleaners to get back up in running If they end up taking too long I will just open op the drive and clean it the hard way. In the mean time I have started working on the Analog disk files. We did not get Analog as a subscription, we did manage to pick them up once in awhile though from the local computer store. I see the first 8 disks are missing from that collection. They might not have ever had disks in the early issues. I have noticed that many in the archive have MENU file but no autorun.sys. Not sure if this was just how they came or what. I have been opening up each disk and adding the autorun.sys so they booth the analog menu at load. I am organizing all my files atr/atx/car etc for my SDMAXX Drive. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) Does anybody have the original disk set of The ANALOG Compendium book by any chance? IIRC, the offer was only available to users who bought the book: https://archive.org/details/the-analog-compendium/page/n193/mode/2up Edited April 23, 2020 by www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Kline Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 20 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: Does anybody have the original disk set of The ANALOG Compendium book by any chance? IIRC, the offer was only available to users who bought the book: https://archive.org/details/the-analog-compendium/page/n193/mode/2up I seem to have both the ANALOG Compendium set (2 disks) and the ANALOG Extra set (2 disks) in the collection here. I'll get those ATR'd up for everyone, but they are not original disks so I won't be able to provide helpful and preserving scans of the floppies, sorry. --Tim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Kline Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) Here are .atr's of the requested floppies I have in the ANALOG set here, everyone. --Tim ANALOG 8-Bit Extra Disk1.ATR ANALOG 8-Bit Extra Disk1-B.ATR ANALOG 8-Bit Extra Disk2.ATR ANALOG 8-Bit Extra Disk2-b.ATR ANALOG Compendium Disk1.ATR ANALOG Compendium Disk1-b.ATR ANALOG Compendium Disk2.ATR ANALOG Compendium Disk2-b.ATR Edited April 23, 2020 by Timothy Kline 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 2:12 PM, Timothy Kline said: Here are .atr's of the requested floppies I have in the ANALOG set here, everyone. Thanks for the dumps. Could you please make pictures of the disks (incl. the ANTIC dsks) for the a8preservation site? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhants Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 On 4/22/2020 at 10:39 PM, developerdude said: I do have those volumes as .DCM files as well as all the Antic magazine (as PDF) and software disks. I'll try to make them into .ATR files and post them. Hi - could you please let me know what utility I would need to use to unpack .DCM files ? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 On a windows PC : Imagic by AtariMax website Steve Tucker. Atari Emulator Atari800 Plus 4.1 On an Atari with extended ram and a program called Diskcom3. with a larger Atr or harddrive partition to hold the size of the new file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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