Nice to see some of you at Replay. Here's issue 8, and the famous "summer slump" is well underway, with a big drop in the number of reviews. And "Voyage into the Unknown" gets a good kicking.
Nice to see some of you at Replay. Here's issue 8, and the famous "summer slump" is well underway, with a big drop in the number of reviews. And "Voyage into the Unknown" gets a good kicking.
Only two Smashes this month, Wanted: Monty Mole and Sherlock. At the other end of the spectrum, so to speak, is Kosmik Pirate, which must surely be setting some kind of record for the worst review scores (although I haven't checked).
I scanned in the letters page for this issue, which isn't something I plan to make a habit of, but I think there are some interesting ones about piracy and JSW POKEs in there.
Finally I noticed that one of the things which isn't scanned is a big preview of Backpacker's Guide - does anyone consider this a big loss?
Ha, the size of the preview wasn't warranted by the quality of the game, when it eventually came out, was it!
BTW was good to meet you at Replay. I showed Roger Kean and Oli Frey your kindle conversions and Roger replied "They're more readable than the originals!" :)
Some bits of the site seem broken at the moment, since my hosting company kindly 'upgraded' my hosting recently. Normal service will return once I can manage to get in touch with them.
A bumper issue this time, including CRASH's feature on the Imagine collapse, tying into the Commercial Breaks documentary (as seen at Replay earlier in the year). This is a sort of "Director's Cut" of the article - the text as printed in CRASH is somewhat mangled at a few points, but after re-reading it this time for preparation of the Kindle edition, I've managed to piece together how it's supposed to go.
There's also a special on how CRASH was produced, back in the day.
I'll probably take a break from this project for a couple of months, but I will be back for CRASH 1985. I'll start a new thread for that when the time comes.
You can always keep a look out for updates on the website or the RSS feed.
Looking good. Could you show us a page without pics, please. Just wondering if 2 physical pages become 8 digital ones (???)
On my Kindle, at my normal font size size, the Knight Lore review covers about 7.5 pages, including screenshots - but of course a Kindle page is physically much smaller than the original A4 CRASH page. At the smallest font size it comes in at about 6 pages.
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I thought the summer games drought was a relatively modern phenomenon!
I must have missed Issue 7, but that's ok. Gives me 2 to read at once! :-)
Only two Smashes this month, Wanted: Monty Mole and Sherlock. At the other end of the spectrum, so to speak, is Kosmik Pirate, which must surely be setting some kind of record for the worst review scores (although I haven't checked).
I scanned in the letters page for this issue, which isn't something I plan to make a habit of, but I think there are some interesting ones about piracy and JSW POKEs in there.
Finally I noticed that one of the things which isn't scanned is a big preview of Backpacker's Guide - does anyone consider this a big loss?
BTW was good to meet you at Replay. I showed Roger Kean and Oli Frey your kindle conversions and Roger replied "They're more readable than the originals!" :)
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Some bits of the site seem broken at the moment, since my hosting company kindly 'upgraded' my hosting recently. Normal service will return once I can manage to get in touch with them.
A bumper issue this time, including CRASH's feature on the Imagine collapse, tying into the Commercial Breaks documentary (as seen at Replay earlier in the year). This is a sort of "Director's Cut" of the article - the text as printed in CRASH is somewhat mangled at a few points, but after re-reading it this time for preparation of the Kindle edition, I've managed to piece together how it's supposed to go.
There's also a special on how CRASH was produced, back in the day.
I'll probably take a break from this project for a couple of months, but I will be back for CRASH 1985. I'll start a new thread for that when the time comes.
You can always keep a look out for updates on the website or the RSS feed.
Ex-Ocean Software graphic artist -
Download my FREE PDF 'LOAD DIJ DIJ' (180,000+ words): https://ko-fi.com/i/IG2G3BEJZP
ZX Art page: https://zxart.ee/eng/authors/m/mark-r-jones/
https://twitter.com/MarkRJones1970
https://www.facebook.com/OceanSoftwareLtd/
https://www.facebook.com/ultimateptg/
Looking good. Could you show us a page without pics, please. Just wondering if 2 physical pages become 8 digital ones (???)
Here's the first page of Imagine games article from the same issue:
Of course, it depends on the font size you have set as to how many pages it covers on the Kindle.
Here's the first page of the article as it appeared in the magazine: ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/Crash/Issue12/Pages/Crash1200060.jpg
Oh, that looks like one of the new ones. What's one, the Touch? Or just the main Kindle-without-keyboard, whatever they're calling it?
It's the ?89 non-touch wifi only one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Wi-Fi-6-Ink-Display/dp/B0051QVF7A/ref=amb_link_162584867_2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0D8N3TRG2SQ9R3DGAC6Y&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=270566827&pf_rd_i=468294
John Lewis sell them, couldn't be bothered waiting for it to be delivered from Amazon :)
On my Kindle, at my normal font size size, the Knight Lore review covers about 7.5 pages, including screenshots - but of course a Kindle page is physically much smaller than the original A4 CRASH page. At the smallest font size it comes in at about 6 pages.
New Kindle owners can catch up with the CRASH output at www.crashonline.org.uk/misc/kindle.htm
(I haven't had a chance to do a full proof-read of this, so there might be typos.)
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* minor formatting updates for consistency
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