ThumpNugget Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? http://www.atarimagazines.com/software/startsoftware.html Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 What's hard to find from STart is the 8-bit programs from the last issues. I've never been able to find them. I don't think they were included on the START disks. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? I have a lot of these MSA format, if that would help. ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? http://www.atarimagazines.com/software/startsoftware.html Allan Well sweet, that makes it too easy Only one disk to do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? I have a lot of these MSA format, if that would help. ~telengard It looks like the only missing form the archive site is Vol 1 No 3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? I have a lot of these MSA format, if that would help. ~telengard It looks like the only missing form the archive site is Vol 1 No 3... I'm missing that one also... hmm ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Greetings! While waiting for the rest of the SoftSide magazines to show up on eBay and elsewhere so I can complete that run I was able to complete a couple of other magazine runs. One of these is STart magazine. I have just finished getting the entire run scanned (just have to reprocess and OCR the scans) and hope to make them available in the near future. I was also lucky enough to get all of the disks for STart. I would like to include these disk images with the PDFs. For the Analog/Antic/SoftSide I was able to convert the disks/cassettes I had and find the rest online. I am assuming there is an ST equivalent to the ATR format for emulators and making real disks. I don't have the equipment or expertise on the ST to do the conversion. I am looking for someone to ship these disks to that is willing to convert them so I can include them with the scans. Anyone want to take on the thankless task of imaging 42 disks?? I have a lot of these MSA format, if that would help. ~telengard It looks like the only missing form the archive site is Vol 1 No 3... I'm missing that one also... hmm ~telengard I have that disk if someone can make an MSA from it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 (edited) I have STart Volume 1 Number 3 Winter 1987, see the link below for my collection of STart and Compute Atari ST cover disks! http://vintagecomputercafe.com/atari/ST/Magazines/ Edited November 14, 2009 by tjlazer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 If anyone downloaded V1N3.MSA please re-download it. It had the GHOST virus on it! It's clean now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 In honor of Boise State making another BCS game (against TCU - the BCS chickened out and didn't want two non BCS teams embarrassing them) I actually put forth some effort yesterday and finished processing all the STart scans so these are now complete... Yeah! There are a couple of options as far as getting these to people (I'm trying to decide on some sort of standard process to follow for future archives as well) so I wanted to solicit some opinions.. In the past I have put together a small DVD set and more recently just torrents.. I'm not sure what people prefer but here is what I was thinking: Option 1: Create a DVD set similar to the Analog/Antic magazines. The STart archive is just over 3 gigs so it will fit on one DVD... I don't overly enjoy making these things but if there are people that want this then I certainly would entertain it.. or maybe if someone out there that actually likes making these things wants to do it and only charge for materials/shipping plus a buck or two (hey it can pay for your membership Option 2: Make a disk only. I like this option since this is what I do now - I am putting all my scanned PDF DVDs into one 50 DVD folder which takes up much less space on the shelf. This way the cost would only be about $1.50 (the cost of the DVD, the ink to put some graphics on it, and a decent mailer) plus shipping which should be minimal for DVD only. Option 3: Make a torrent only and call it good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 (edited) In honor of Boise State making another BCS game (against TCU - the BCS chickened out and didn't want two non BCS teams embarrassing them) I actually put forth some effort yesterday and finished processing all the STart scans so these are now complete... Yeah! There are a couple of options as far as getting these to people (I'm trying to decide on some sort of standard process to follow for future archives as well) so I wanted to solicit some opinions.. In the past I have put together a small DVD set and more recently just torrents.. I'm not sure what people prefer but here is what I was thinking: Option 1: Create a DVD set similar to the Analog/Antic magazines. The STart archive is just over 3 gigs so it will fit on one DVD... I don't overly enjoy making these things but if there are people that want this then I certainly would entertain it.. or maybe if someone out there that actually likes making these things wants to do it and only charge for materials/shipping plus a buck or two (hey it can pay for your membership Option 2: Make a disk only. I like this option since this is what I do now - I am putting all my scanned PDF DVDs into one 50 DVD folder which takes up much less space on the shelf. This way the cost would only be about $1.50 (the cost of the DVD, the ink to put some graphics on it, and a decent mailer) plus shipping which should be minimal for DVD only. Option 3: Make a torrent only and call it good. Absolutely AWESOME!! At some point in the future my wife is going to thank you. When we are hard up for space I might be a (very) little more inclined to purge some of my physical collection. If you are creating a DVD set I'd love to purchase but I understand if you don't want to. Seems like a lot of tedious work. bittorrent works fine for me. again, thanks for your hard work on all of this scanning... it's greatly appreciated! ~telengard Edited December 7, 2009 by telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I would love to see another nice disc set as you did with ANALOG and Antic, but I'd be happy even just having a plain-old disc. I would also be happy to help burn and distribute discs to help alleviate some of that pressure. Having said that, a torrent would also be nice. I would consider making a 3GB download available for Subscribers, but there's no way I'd make such a huge file generally available for obvious reasons. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callaghan Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 sure can image for you , msa or st zip and stt too probally i own six atari and can program in a handfull of different langugaes is this deal still open , do you need 42 disks transfered to images , then most likely sent back via email ? charles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 sure can image for you , msa or st zip and stt too probally i own six atari and can program in a handfull of different langugaes is this deal still open , do you need 42 disks transfered to images , then most likely sent back via email ? charles Hi there Charles.. I appreciate the offer but it turned out that all the images were already on the web so no point in duplicating effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 I'd love to see another nice disk set as well, but understand that it's a pain to go through that process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet-X Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 very nice. Over Xmas break, I was going to start scanning Atari Explorer magazines (I have almost all of them) into PDF format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Greetings good people.. Last week I was lucky enough to have facial reconstruction surgery (10 bonus points if you can correctly guess how many holes were drilled into my skull and lower jaw).. So I had some time to spend looking at different jewel boxes to find one that could be used on all DVD PDF sets (now and future). I found one I think works very well, in fact I'm going to go back and redo that Antics/Analogs as soon as the Comics and SoftSide magazine cases are done. The only downside is it is only a one disc case so multiple DVD sets will have multiple cases (no biggie). Anyway.. Nothing fancy. Here is the one for STart: The Front: The Back: The Inside: The DVD: The inside with the DVD: I know its a bit busy on the inside.. It is a bunch of the graphics I pulled from STart magazines when testing some of the other jewel box sets and since the case is see-through I thought I would print some of STarts graphics on the other side of the cover though it was supposed to be in black and white to make the DVD "pop" but the printer guy didn't understand what I wanted: Anyway I made up 20 of these buggers so hopefully there are some people out there that want them: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Those are beautiful! How much? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 They look brilliant! Set a price yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThumpNugget Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Those are beautiful! How much? ..Al Well I was looking to retire.... Heh I haven't added up my costs yet.. It will be cheap though.. under 10 bucks total (that is including shipping as well). How about $8.50 to the U.S. and $9.50 outside the U.S. You could always get the online store back up and I could ship the headache to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Looks great, count me in for one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8guy Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I would love one....where do I send my 9.50? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Love the front cover image. I would definitely like one of the 20 if I could. I'm a happy owner of your ANALOG set too. Do we paypal you like last time? Hope your surgery went OK... and Happy Holidays! ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjb Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I'll take a set! tjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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