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Re: 8000 / PCW Plus typeins

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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:44:59AM +0100, Jacob Nevins wrote:

> The single-file scans for casual browsing in the Megapack (which I have
> all of) are .djvu format, which I suspect doesn't meet your
> ease-of-access criterion. They weigh about 3-7 megabyte each, for a
> total of 693 Mbyte. I don't know if they can easily be converted to PDF.

They can, allegedly:
  http://www.djvu-pdf.com/
  http://pd4ml.com/djvu.htm

but even if that doesn't work, the DJVU viewer is free and it's better
to have stuff available in a slightly annoying format than to not have
it available at all.

> The more-like-archival-quality 300dpi scans (which I only have a few of)
> are .rar files containing piles of JPEGs -- again, not particularly easy
> to use. They weigh 150-400 megabytes per issue. I'm not sure they add
> anything over the .djvus for readers TBH -- I think they're mostly of
> use for remastering.

If we can't convert djvu to pdf, they could be useful, and also useful
for archival purposes, to insure against that day in the future when
djvu is no longer readable.

> (Of course the archive.org presentation hides all this, as it inhales
> one format and presents lots of different ones.)
> 
> Note that the PCW Megapack contains scans of other magazines too (it's
> just 8000 / PCW Plus I'm particularly interested in). The list:
>   8000_Plus_and_PCW_Plus
>   Amstrad_Accion_y_Software_Accion
>   Amstrad_PCW_Magazine
>   Amstrad_Personal
>   Amstrad_Profesional_y_PC_Soft_Spanish
>   Amstrad_Semanal_y_Amstrad_Especial
>   Amstrad_Sinclair_Ocio_y_MegaOcio
>   Amstrad_User_Spanish
>   PCW_Magazine
>   PCW_Today
>   The_Complete_Guide_to_the_Amstrad_PCW_8256_&_8512
>   Tu_Micro_Amstrad_Spanish
>
> (And lots of other material. The entire PCW Megapack 2011 is a .rar file
> weighing nearby 5 gigabytes. Quite a lot of it is video footage of
> programs running on an actual PCW, alongside the disc images.)

Got a link? 

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