[HN Gopher] Old Games Magazines
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Old Games Magazines
Author : ritchie_13
Score : 53 points
Date : 2025-01-28 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| jay_kyburz wrote:
| I thought it was going to be more like this gaming mag.
|
| https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/Dragon%...
|
| ps. My era of gaming starts around issue 100ish.
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| I feel the same towards the "Computer Chronicles", which, IMO, is
| the best example of unbiased tech reporting that I have ever
| seen. I still love to watch the old episodes. Unfortunately, even
| though I have most of the 20 year history of episodes, many are
| still missing.
|
| Internet Archive, Individual episodes. Unorganized except for
| seasons. Many different video versions. 965 Gigs:
| https://archive.org/details/Computer_Chronicles
|
| Internet Archive, single zip file. Re-transcoded, better
| organized and documented as to Repeat, Missing, and foreign
| language versions. 83.5 gigs:
| https://archive.org/details/computer-chronicles-full-epidose...
|
| If downloading from the Internet Archive, there is a CLI tool
| called "ia".
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| >If downloading from the Internet Archive, there is a CLI tool
| called "ia".
|
| As that's not the easiest search target,
| https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| Thanks! I was in between meetings so didn't have time to
| elaborate.
|
| I love the `ia` tool, but it drives me crazy that it can't
| resume a failed download. Some files are fast (~30 meg/sec).
| Others are painfully slow (~100 kb/sec). The same collection
| can contain fast and slow downloads.
|
| I had a file that kept failing when using ia, after about 6
| hours of downloading at the slow speed. I switched to Chrome,
| which still downloaded at the slow speed, but Chrome would
| attempt to automatically resume the download, and if that
| failed, you can press a button to ask Chrome to try to resume
| it again. I have had to fall back to that clunky solution
| several times.
|
| My only other concern is that ia does not download files in
| parallel.
|
| Aside from my minor complaints, I'm thankful that it exists,
| and I have told other about it since discovering it myself in
| the last few months.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| There are a lot of episodes on YT as well, if you haven't
| already looked there.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT
| coreyp_1 wrote:
| I know about it, but I haven't looked yet. In the large
| episode group, there are 658 episodes. The YouTube listing
| doesn't make it easy to search for a particular episode,
| though, and YouTube's compression is horrible.
|
| I face the same dilemma on Bob Ross' The Joy Of Painting. I
| would love to download them, and they are on YouTube, but the
| compression makes them look really bad. Well, that, and I'm
| not sure how to download a huge number of vids from YouTube
| like that. :/
| tac19 wrote:
| What will be the vital source of cultural history when people
| someday look back to where we are now?
| SllX wrote:
| TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Instagram, Reddit,
| Wikipedia (including the Talk pages), KnowYourMeme and Urban
| Dictionary. Probably Discord too.
| tac19 wrote:
| Those persist only at the whim of a corporation. There is
| nothing that preserves them, as they were at a given time, or
| keeps them in existence if their owner goes out of business
| or is cast out because of political feuds.
|
| Not that there is a perfect record of every cultural artifact
| before the digital age of course, maybe it'll all work out
| somehow.
| SllX wrote:
| Correct, but if you're trying to capture _today_ , these
| are the lion's share of what you want to capture.
| doesnt_know wrote:
| There won't be any except whatever is output from some llm and
| it will be unverifiable.
|
| The specific context of video game history comes up now and
| then in "indie game journalist" scenes like aftermath. Games
| journalism in particular has gone through a consolidation and
| with it comes the destruction of archives both physical and
| digital.
| bluescrn wrote:
| With modern games no longer playable once the servers go
| offline, the only recorded history of the modern era of
| gaming will soon be on the hard drives of YouTube and Twitch
| servers. For as long as that survives.
| bombcar wrote:
| For gaming, we have hours and hours and decades of let's plays
| for games - but those could disappear in an instant if Youtube
| decided they weren't profitable.
|
| Archive things. It's easier than ever to keep local copies of
| media, and it could be quite valuable someday.
| classichasclass wrote:
| Computer magazines, too. I still have my personal library of
| COMPUTE!, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, Family Computing and Creative
| Computing, and various scattered issues of BYTE, Ahoy!, RUN and
| Micro 6502. They're a window into a different era, there's
| something about leafing through the well-worn pages that a PDF
| copy doesn't recreate, and they don't link rot. (They just rot if
| stored improperly.)
| LorenDB wrote:
| Tangentially related: I wish there was still a good selection of
| tech magazines in print. Everything has moved to digital only
| nowadays.
| GuinansEyebrows wrote:
| Imagine a print edition of LWN
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| >... while the Internet Archive does contain patchy collections
| of scanned magazines, it is vulnerable to legal challenges from
| copyright holders.
|
| Yeah, been downloading those and other magazines while I can.
| driscoll42 wrote:
| RetroMags - hhttps://www.retromags.com/ has 5218 various gaming
| magazine issues and strategy guides one can download to check
| out! Looks like the VGHF and RetroMags are working together from
| forum posts, with the VGHF doing a lot of work on making them
| more accessible than a raw cbz/pdf download.
| throwaway37485 wrote:
| Used to get C+VG in my teens. It would have reviews of new games
| as well as tips, maps, interviews with developers and game code
| to type in.
| esafak wrote:
| The most memorable one for me was Zero
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_(video_game_magazine))
| because it did not feel like other games magazines. The writers
| displayed a more adult sense of humor, in my recollection. Have a
| look: https://archive.org/details/zero-magazine
| qw wrote:
| I subscribed to "CU Amiga" and "Amiga Format". I kept them for a
| long time, but had to throw them away when I moved a few years
| ago.
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