Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

[apples <apples@applesspammer.com>]

   First off I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Celt and others
who have graciously contributed their time and effort in making
available and preserving imho the coolest apple magazine ever.   Here
is a link to a program (download druid) that will help make the
downloading process much easier on a PC with internet explorer.

http://www.xemico.com/druid/index.html

   There are many others like it.   Just do a search in google for
website downloaders or check your favortie software site
(download.com) for download managers.   I tried this program on the
Computist scans and it seems to work pretty well.   Enjoy!





On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:49:48 -0500, "Bill Garber"
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>: Bill Garber writes ...
>: >
>: > "Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote
>: >
>: > I like that better than the way the other Computist Mags
>: > are being posted. I started to capture issue #1, and it
>: > was taking so long to make folders and rename them so that
>: > I could recognize them more readily on my computer that I
>: > gave up after only a few pages. I'm not condemning what has
>: > been done with them so far. It's great for picking out only
>: > certain pages, but it is difficult to snag the whole archive.
>: > There are a few type-ins I'd like to snag and that is great
>: > for that.
>:
>: Thanks; glad you like the scans. Each galley sheet is
>: a whole tabloid page reduced to a regular size sheet;
>: so, yes, it's very compact. The problem with doing
>: earlier, magazine format issues that way-- e.g.,
>: reformatting and putting 2-3 pages of content on one
>: page-- is that you lose the actual appearance of
>: the issue.
>
>Everyone is doing a great job.  have no trouble reading
>any of the Computist mag scans by anyone so far. Wonderful.
>
>: For the type-ins, at least starting around issue #52,
>: you can get the stuff on the 'Library Disks'. Many of
>: those are on USA2WUG at
>: http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/ComputistLibraryDisks/ .
>
>Kool, I will go see what I can get. Thanks.
>
>: I've experimented with zipping PSP-produced jpegs of
>: scans before and discovered you get nearly zero additional
>: compression. (Just now did a test on one-- the 646k jpeg
>: got reduced to a 645k .zip file!)
>
>: At 1100x1600 and 16 colors, the 650k pages are probably
>: about as compact as they can get without a major sacrifice
>: in quality.
>
>Actually I wasn't as concerned with compression as
>consolidation. It is easier to download 5 x 2.5MB files
>than 15 x 500KB files, don't you agree? Or better yet,
>one 7.5MB file, if you have fast ethernet, that isn't
>a problem. Of course, downloading with a //e at 9600
>it would not be fun, right Howard???   8o)
>
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