MSX Computer Magazine online - update

Dutch readers, especially those who lack early issues of MSX Computer Magazine in their collection, will be delighted to know that some of the really old issues have finally been put online. This is a fairly large project, so it's not complete yet. It's not just about scanning the lot, it's also about acquiring permission to publish these old articles. Not every author has been found yet. But without doubt, other magazines are to be expected online too.

The magazines that are already online right now are complete, including commercial advertisements and the MSX-jes section; the 1985 paper version of eBay, so to speak. You may safely assume that these goods have been sold or demolished by now, in case you thought to have a drunk night o' fun calling those people! For now, have fun reading these PDF files, it's deeply rooted Dutch MSX history!

Relevant link: MSX Computer Magazine online

Comments (18)

By Latok

msx guru (3022)

26-06-2011, 21:49

Great news Thank you to everyone involved

By Google

By Whizzy

Master (152)

26-06-2011, 22:44

Congrats with going online. Must be a hard job finding and contacting original authors.. good luck with the rest of the magazines.

By Edwin

Paragon (1116)

26-06-2011, 22:53

Nice! I never actually read issues 1 through 5.

By RobertVroemisse

Ambassador (1134)

26-06-2011, 23:00

Great!

A true trip through memory lane. Keep up the good work.

By kuuno

Master (225)

26-06-2011, 23:18

how cool ideal reading material for on the ipad

By ro

Prophet (3591)

27-06-2011, 08:30

FAB! sniff...

By Huey

Prophet (2132)

27-06-2011, 08:53

And I thought I would never hear about the project again!

Great work! Hope to see more in the future. It is pure nostalgia without the bad smell of a former smoking owner

By wolf_

Ambassador (9121)

27-06-2011, 11:53

Isn't #48 smoking hot then?

By Huey

Prophet (2132)

27-06-2011, 12:42

I just love the gossip part in MCM 4 about MSXgids.

By Manuel

Enlighted (7237)

27-06-2011, 16:03

Interesting about that gossip is that, as far as I know, Steven Vanhetgoor never did something with "MSX Gids", but he did take over "MSX Mozaik" at some (much later) point.

By kuuno

Master (225)

27-06-2011, 18:16

What I found so wondrous is that in 1985 everybody expected that the MSX 2 would be 16 bit...
What happened about it... Or was it pure speculation??

By wolf_

Ambassador (9121)

27-06-2011, 19:10

probably based on similar developments on other systems

By FiXato

Scribe (878)

28-06-2011, 14:41

The OCR is remarkably good o_o hadn't expected that.
Congrats on (re-)publishing these first issues and thanks for making the effort!

By edoz

Hero (591)

28-06-2011, 18:25

Whow!! realy cool ! also cool that you can search for text .. snif .. this is a good day

By tfh

Paladin (782)

28-06-2011, 22:17

Having phun, reading those old mags... nostalgia rules
Also nice to read what the letters "MSX" actually stand for, before Nishi decided to falsify history It's explained a couple of times in the first issue already

By NYYRIKKI

Prophet (2771)

29-06-2011, 20:02

Is there any tool that would translate these PDF-files to English?

By FiXato

Scribe (878)

29-06-2011, 20:34

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/09/convert-pdf-files-to-word-documents.html

By Grauw

Paragon (1797)

03-07-2011, 17:05

Awesome, super awesome!

Only one downside: my mother’s always nagging me about why I don’t throw away those magazines I keep in my old room. I claim that I keep them for archival purposes, but now can I still honestly say that… hehe .

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