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  Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-17 20:03 +0000
    Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-18 07:50 +1000
      Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-18 08:40 +0000
        Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-22 07:57 +1000
          Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> - 2026-02-22 19:46 +0000
            Re: Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-23 07:50 +1000

#28 — Frontier: Elite 2 Retouched Box Art

I spent a great many hours almost a decade ago retouching a scan of the box
art for Frontier: Elite 2:

<https://archive.org/details/FrontierElite2RetouchedBoxArt>

This is a game I never played in the 90s when I had an Amiga but is one
I’ve always been quite fascinated by. Around 2010 or so I had an Amiga 1200
set up and spent some time with this incredible game, and it’s been a long
term goal of mine to *finally* one day finish my Amiga 1700 mod project
(A1200 motherboard into an A500 case to allow plenty of space for lots of
upgrades…) and then really get my teeth into it. 

The artwork is lovely, though, eh?

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#29

scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent a great many hours almost a decade ago retouching a scan of the box
> art for Frontier: Elite 2:
> 
> <https://archive.org/details/FrontierElite2RetouchedBoxArt>

Interesting. Do people upload that sort of thing there often? Years
ago I spent some time scanning in rare VHS covers and uploading
to vhscollector.com, which later fell apart, stopped accepting
submissions, and seems to have lost at least some of my scans in
the intervening years. I also photographed (poorly) covers of 2000
books, some obscure and unknown to the web, while selling a
collection some years ago. I've assumed these would be outside the
scope of the Internet Archive, but maybe not?

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#30

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I spent a great many hours almost a decade ago retouching a scan of the box
>> art for Frontier: Elite 2:
>> 
>> <https://archive.org/details/FrontierElite2RetouchedBoxArt>
> 
> Interesting. Do people upload that sort of thing there often? 

Well, a quick search for “video game box art” and then filtered by images
shows a couple of hundred results:

<https://archive.org/search?query=Video+game+box+art&tab=image>

Around the same time I did the retouched Frontier art, I did likewise for
Super Mario 1 and 3:

<https://archive.org/details/SuperMarioBrosRetouchedBoxArt>

I spent *days* doing a beautiful job of retouching a high res scan of the
Lemmings manual - ended up beautiful it did, I had a very high-end Canon A2
printer at the time and it looked fantastic when printed and hung on my den
wall. Sadly, I misplaced the Photoshop file for it, so couldn’t archive it
when I archived these others… :(

But, back to your question, I think the answer is a firm yes - people
upload all manner of things to archive.org, and I don’t personally think
there’s much that doesn’t merit archiving. If it represents even a small
level of worth to you, it’s likely that eventually somebody else will come
across it and be grateful you put it online.  

>Years
> ago I spent some time scanning in rare VHS covers and uploading
> to vhscollector.com, which later fell apart, stopped accepting
> submissions, and seems to have lost at least some of my scans in
> the intervening years.

If you still have the scans, get them uploaded! There’s probably already a
“collection” of VHS scans that you could email info@archive.org the item
URLs to and ask that they move them to it. Or, if not, once you have
uploaded 50 of them, you can ask for a collection to be created for you to
continue to curate new scans into - that’s what I did for my Medway Scene,
Radiohead, and Glastonbury collections. 

>I also photographed (poorly) covers of 2000
> books, some obscure and unknown to the web, while selling a
> collection some years ago. I've assumed these would be outside the
> scope of the Internet Archive, but maybe not?
> 

Again, I don’t think there’s anything out of scope - it certainly wouldn’t
hurt to use up a few megabytes of their petabytes of storage by uploading
them, anyway, imo…

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scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>Years
>> ago I spent some time scanning in rare VHS covers and uploading
>> to vhscollector.com, which later fell apart, stopped accepting
>> submissions, and seems to have lost at least some of my scans in
>> the intervening years.
> 
> If you still have the scans, get them uploaded! There's probably already a
> "collection" of VHS scans that you could email info@archive.org the item
> URLs to and ask that they move them to it.

Curiously there only seems to be a "collection" for UK VHS covers,
but the "VHS cover" tag seems to be commonly used, with lots of
results. I started with some old 1980s rental releases, which are
more rare and interesting. Unfortunately my internet connection
died last night after the first one (which it loves to do whenever
I fill out a detailed form on a webpage, so I lose it all), so I
just got this done, perhaps one of the all-time VHS cover designs
most likely to scare away anyone who pulled it out at the video
store:

https://archive.org/details/ghosts-of-the-civil-dead_VHS-cover

>>I also photographed (poorly) covers of 2000
>> books, some obscure and unknown to the web, while selling a
>> collection some years ago. I've assumed these would be outside the
>> scope of the Internet Archive, but maybe not?
>> 
> 
> Again, I don't think there's anything out of scope - it certainly wouldn't
> hurt to use up a few megabytes of their petabytes of storage by uploading
> them, anyway, imo...

I guess ideally I'd figure out some semi-automated way to screen
them and upload with the metadata I already have separately, without
going through the upload page manaully every time. I know they have
a command-line uploader tool to help with that sort of thing.
Another project for the one-day list...

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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>>> Years
>>> ago I spent some time scanning in rare VHS covers and uploading
>>> to vhscollector.com, which later fell apart, stopped accepting
>>> submissions, and seems to have lost at least some of my scans in
>>> the intervening years.
>> 
>> If you still have the scans, get them uploaded! There's probably already a
>> "collection" of VHS scans that you could email info@archive.org the item
>> URLs to and ask that they move them to it.
> 
> Curiously there only seems to be a "collection" for UK VHS covers,
> but the "VHS cover" tag seems to be commonly used, with lots of
> results. I started with some old 1980s rental releases, which are
> more rare and interesting. Unfortunately my internet connection
> died last night after the first one (which it loves to do whenever
> I fill out a detailed form on a webpage, so I lose it all), so I
> just got this done, perhaps one of the all-time VHS cover designs
> most likely to scare away anyone who pulled it out at the video
> store:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/ghosts-of-the-civil-dead_VHS-cover
> 

Nice, I noticed you uploaded a png - I scan stuff as 600dpi TIFF files and
upload them, IA then derives various other formats but the original file is
high res lossless (and big file size, sure) - this was the advice given me
by IA when I started scanning and was chatting to them about it. 

>>> I also photographed (poorly) covers of 2000
>>> books, some obscure and unknown to the web, while selling a
>>> collection some years ago. I've assumed these would be outside the
>>> scope of the Internet Archive, but maybe not?
>>> 
>> 
>> Again, I don't think there's anything out of scope - it certainly wouldn't
>> hurt to use up a few megabytes of their petabytes of storage by uploading
>> them, anyway, imo...
> 
> I guess ideally I'd figure out some semi-automated way to screen
> them and upload with the metadata I already have separately, without
> going through the upload page manaully every time. I know they have
> a command-line uploader tool to help with that sort of thing.
> Another project for the one-day list...

I was talking to Jason Scott (of textfiles.com and Internet Archive) some
years ago and he was advocating that I use their command line tool to
upload as he said it would save me bags of time with all the automations it
can do on upload batches. But I just couldn’t figure it out so have always
used their web uploader. They don’t have much simple documentation on it,
but if you’re comfortable with command line work you may make better sense
of it!

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#39

scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Curiously there only seems to be a "collection" for UK VHS covers,
>> but the "VHS cover" tag seems to be commonly used, with lots of
>> results. I started with some old 1980s rental releases, which are
>> more rare and interesting. Unfortunately my internet connection
>> died last night after the first one (which it loves to do whenever
>> I fill out a detailed form on a webpage, so I lose it all), so I
>> just got this done, perhaps one of the all-time VHS cover designs
>> most likely to scare away anyone who pulled it out at the video
>> store:
>> 
>> https://archive.org/details/ghosts-of-the-civil-dead_VHS-cover
>> 
> 
> Nice, I noticed you uploaded a png - I scan stuff as 600dpi TIFF files and
> upload them, IA then derives various other formats but the original file is
> high res lossless (and big file size, sure) - this was the advice given me
> by IA when I started scanning and was chatting to them about it. 

PNG is lossless as well. Technically TIFF can use lossy or lossless
compression and I've found some programs use no compression at all,
which makes the files huge but just due to inefficiency rather than
higher quality. TIFF has lots of extended features that find little
use, but I think the main attraction is that people think it's more
"professional" than PNG, even though for something like this
there's no technical advantage. PNG has better support with most of
the free image processing software I use, so I tend to default to
it.

>> I guess ideally I'd figure out some semi-automated way to screen
>> them and upload with the metadata I already have separately, without
>> going through the upload page manaully every time. I know they have
>> a command-line uploader tool to help with that sort of thing.
>> Another project for the one-day list...
> 
> I was talking to Jason Scott (of textfiles.com and Internet Archive) some
> years ago and he was advocating that I use their command line tool to
> upload as he said it would save me bags of time with all the automations it
> can do on upload batches. But I just couldn't figure it out so have always
> used their web uploader. They don't have much simple documentation on it,
> but if you're comfortable with command line work you may make better sense
> of it!

Yeah, I also got a bit lost in the documentation once before, but I
think I'll manage.

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