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Mag scans in the archive

VertigoVertigo
edited November 2005 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
I know that if you change the page number of the scan you'll get the next page, but a lot of the time with multi-page reviews only the first page is linked to in the archive.
See Firefly as an example.
Any chance of this being fixed in future? I think it's been like this... forever.
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  • NickHNickH
    edited November 2005
    I keep meaning to write a CGI script that would be a very simple viewer for the scans (literally just a couple of hyperlinks and the image itself), but that's just one of many things on my wish-list :)
  • Philip KendallPhilip Kendall
    edited November 2005
    It's not like it's rocket science to work out the URL for the next page :)
  • NickHNickH
    edited November 2005
    Welllllll.... you'd need a list of issues and numbers of pages in each issue, plus Mort had some partially-irregular naming conventions (lots of cases of page 1a/1b/1c, for example.

    I have all that info, and writing the script would be easy, it's just getting around to it that is the problem :)
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited November 2005
    On 2005-11-17 14:57, Philip Kendall wrote:
    It's not like it's rocket science to work out the URL for the next page :)
    No, of course it's not (well ok I only just thought to try it myself), but if you're not one of those clevers that thinks to change the URL and you're just a general chappy looking for some review info, it's not obvious where the next page is, whereas a page 1/2 link or something else equally useful would be... useful.
  • mheidemheide
    edited November 2005
    On 2005-11-17 15:36, NickH wrote:
    Welllllll.... you'd need a list of issues and numbers of pages in each issue, plus Mort had some partially-irregular naming conventions (lots of cases of page 1a/1b/1c, for example.

    The fault for that actually lies with the publishers. Keeping the cover as page 1, there were often 2 advert pages that were not counted in the page numbering, so the following page (with actual content) had page number 2, while it was the 4th page, and so on. We wanted to maintain the real page number in the filename and thus had to revert to naming the two discounted advert pages 1b and 1c (where Mort uses 1a, I use 1).
    I use the same trick for the other magazines (I mean the ones not scanned by Mort).
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited November 2005
    Well yeh, don't get me wrong, it's a nice site and everything, and it's fun for us who know how to find the next page, I was just trying to take the peasants into consideration ;)
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited November 2005
    I considered the problem for a while when I was downloading the odd page. But I tried something - I went to the address bar and removed the page number and put in the number of the next page and got it.


  • mheidemheide
    edited November 2005
    No worries, guys!
    Thou asketh and thou receiveth.
    Let me know if something doesn't work!
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited November 2005
    On 2005-11-19 13:20, mheide wrote:
    No worries, guys!
    Thou asketh and thou receiveth.
    Let me know if something doesn't work!
    Wow! What a hero :)
    This of course also makes it very easy to read all of the magazines by page too, which is also greatly appreciated and will waste plenty more of my deadline time, but I'm sure we'll all be careful not to abuse the system.
    Thanks again.
  • mheidemheide
    edited November 2005
    As Dr BEEP mentioned, the viewers from Tomas Vilim that we've had in the archive for quite some time, may help too (but only on MSIE, apparantly):
    C&VG, Crash,
    Your Sinclair, Your Spectrum, Sinclair User, and so on.
  • mheidemheide
    edited November 2005
    Maybe its an idear to make an 'erratum-page' where people can fill-in a 'form'
    linked with the concerned page
    and tell what is linked wrong or which year or util-discription is wrong.

    I know theres always an email adress available but by automating it you can catch the right place easier since peole can make less mistakes when they DONT have to give the right link

    and with a form al reamarks are at the same spot every time thus makeing review easier too.

    To be honest, I'm not particularly looking forward to adding several more forms at every location some info might be incorrect. At the bottom of each Infoseek query is a mail link, which should do the trick. We tend to solve reported errors quickly.
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