I posted about these magazine ‘compilations’ a while ago when I bought this bunch of Amiga ones off eBay. Well I was browsing again a few days ago and noticed the seller is selling some different Commodore magazines now so I bought a bunch more. Here they are:
Here’s a look at the very first edition cover for each of the 5 magazines.
First Edition Covers!
As with the last batch I bought, the presentation of these discs is first rate with nicely designed colour prints on the front of each DVD.
Unfortunately I discovered a few problems with two of the collections this time around. The first and least problematic was the source quality of the magazines used for the Zzap!64 collection. The pages were grubby and full of creases as you can clearly see in the Zzap! cover shown above. It’s a shame they weren’t able to procure better condition magazines for scanning. However the pages were still readable and given how old the source material is I can overlook some ropey quality issues here and there.
However with the Amiga Power collection there was a much bigger and unforgivable issue. Basically the magazine pages have been scanned at far too low a resolution. In some cases an entire magazine has been crammed into a 2mb PDF! This has rendered text unreadable on many of the pages as you can see with the excerpt of a Rainbow Islands review below.
Lousy scan quality – review text is unreadable!
As you can see the quality is simply unacceptable. Give the seller his due, he refunded me within minutes of contacting him about the issue and pledged to look into the problem and try to locate some better scans.
I’d definitely avoid the Amiga Power collection then but the rest are all recommended if you want to add these classic magazines to your collection.
The seller’s name is ‘another-world-games‘ if you fancy having a look at what they offer for yourself.
