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Re: 8000 / PCW Plus typeins

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"Jacob Nevins" <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> (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.)

Any volunteers to help with the "making accessible" work.

I'll do what I can, for one, and they can go onto the WACCI website as we 
put them into an easy format.

-- 
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman." 

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