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RetroMags: Download Retro Gaming Magazines

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I don't think those magazine publishers are going to be too happy about someone else offering their old magazines, even if they're not offering them themselves.

Besides, keep it under your hat, archive.org has much more comprehensive collections!

In some cases, publishers have accepted that there's a nostalgia-led interest in their old titles, but not to the point that anyone really wants to pay for them, and the titles aren't worth republishing today as their contents are obsolete.

As an example of a very nice publisher, Usborne Publishing (RIP Peter Usborne) is still a major publisher in the UK childrens books market, but it freely allows adults to download PDFs of its old books that taught them about computers 40 years ago: https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books

The site has been around for several years (probably over a decade at this point) so I'm sure any publishers that care are well aware of the site.

Retro mags is garbage! They purposely do takedowns on archived magazines on archive.org.

... citation needed?

Is there something like this for general computer magazines? I want to remember the old days of copying assembly listings and reading nice technical articles on computer internals.

They do have some computer-based mags in their huge database [0]. It's nice to see them still doing their thing, it's an incredible project and goes back decades. I used to scan for them almost fifteen years ago; just the website itself makes me feel nostalgic now, let alone the gaming mags.

0: https://www.retromags.com/magazines/

Archive.org is full of them https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

There's some older magazines here[0] and bitsavers has a lot of technical articles.[1]

[0] https://www.1000bit.it/support/riviste/testate.asp

[1] https://bitsavers.org/pdf

What a nostalgia hit!

Funny because I only recently found my old collection of Australian Hyper magazines from the early-to-mid 90s ... Looking at the covers makes me feel like I'm 10 again, hiding out in the local newsagent. What an era :))

On a couple of occasions (at-least) I got such an ear-bashing from the owner of a magazine shop for standing there and reading the computer magazines. On the second occasion, I summoned the small amount of courage that I had and explained that I was reading to determine if I wanted to buy the magazine for the listings, and that there was no way I was able to memorise them (not entirely true, but somewhat true).

I miss the magazines - somehow, the always on, everything you want nature of the modern internet can't compete with the thrill of getting a magazine once a month and reading and re-reading it cover to cover. Even the advertisements were interesting once you had read everything else two or three times!

Why do they all look so cool and why does nothing look like this now. What happened?

I agree these covers have soul and character. Totally unlike flat minimal aesthetic of the 2020’s.

We took away the compilers so there would be generations of consumers instead of coders.

The web.

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