| darclegion | 10 Sep 2013 10:34 a.m. PST |
I just bought back issues from 75-350 on disk, I read a few comments that they were great, I am excited about getting them in. I bought them from Militarymatters. I wish I could find Wargames Illustrated on disk, even though I have almost all the issues minus about 36 or so. Anyone have Miniature Wargames on disk? And if so, how do you like them. I hope it was a good investment. I go thru and catalog various periods for my games. Tom
tidesofwargaming.blogspot.com |
| Bryan Stroup | 10 Sep 2013 11:12 a.m. PST |
I'm looking forward to buying them all this winter myself. Both Wargames Illustrated and Miniature Wargames. Like you, I have almost all of both printed, but I'm clearing shelf space and have gone almost all digital on paperwork now. (Yeah, I'm a geek). I also highly recommend
- Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy
- Ancient Warfare
- Medieval Warfare Great digital versions of their mags. |
 20thmaine  | 10 Sep 2013 3:50 p.m. PST |
Have a number of the WI CDs of pdfs, haven't bought MW (yet). Want to replace my paper copies, just to make space. Would be interested to hear how you get on with them / quality of scans etc. |
| 45thdiv | 10 Sep 2013 3:53 p.m. PST |
I have them as part of the electronic subscription. They are all very well done. |
| 20thmaine | 11 Sep 2013 4:50 a.m. PST |
The early ones aren't scans ? Most (all perhaps) of the WI early issues (under issue 150) were scanned IIRC – somethimes this wasn't so great with type from other side of page showing through, for example. |
| Patient Zero | 11 Sep 2013 11:12 a.m. PST |
As the exclusive producer of MW back issues on CD (under license from Atlantic Publishers – please note, I have nothing to do with the digital subscriptions) I can offer the following information. The paper copies of the magazine from the first issue in 1983 up to the mid-2000s were scanned by a company than scans large quantities of paperwork for archiving by large organisations. It cost a four figure sum to do so I can assure you the quality is as high as it is commercially viable to do. More recent copies (up to and including Issue 350 of June 2012) simply utilised the orginal print resolution files supplied to the printers of the paper copies so, again, the quality is as high as possible. Each issue is reproduced in its entirety (including adverts) and there are 25 issues on each CD, covering 2 years worth of magazines. Each CD also comes with a period by period index of the contents as a PDF and these indices can be downloaded free from the website wargamesfever.com so readers can familiarise themselves with the contents before buying. |
| darclegion | 13 Sep 2013 2:12 p.m. PST |
well, I got them in the mail, and I am very happy with them. Each disk has a index of time period and battles, very helpful. The Scans are great, no problems save in pdf format and workout great, worth the money. tom |
| 20thmaine | 20 Sep 2013 12:48 p.m. PST |
Great ! I'm really tempted to just get the lot. Thanks for the info @PatientZero. |
| Timmo uk | 29 Sep 2013 9:23 a.m. PST |
I recently bought MW Issues 1 – 25. I'm slowly going through them and chopping up the PDFs to make five PDFs each of five issues but only the images. I remember how inspiring the images were to me back in the day and whilst things have moved on it's a resource I wanted to have. Well worth £10.00 GBP I know I have a couple of CDs of WI as well that I must go through sometime. |
| Callan | 10 Apr 2014 9:21 a.m. PST |
FYI the MW compilations are on DVD, not CD (each disc is about 1.5 to 3.5 GB). This might be an issue for those with older computers. Also note that I found it impossible to read the DVDs on Macs or under Linux (having tried several drives). In the end I had to commandeer a Windows PC to copy the contents to disk. |
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