Commodore Horizons C16/Plus4 Special
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:53 am
I know the 264 series was barely covered in Zzap64, but I'd like to share a link with you anyway, but more for another reason which I'll come to. I remember asking Mort before if it was OK to use the scans in this manner when I created my last special PDF (which I plan on updating), and he said it was fine. good for the scene and all that.
http://www.commodore16.com/index.php/co ... ecial.html
As the C16 never had it's own proper commercial monthly magazine in the stores and when I found that C=Horizons covered just enough for 1 issue, I figured it was high time the 264 series had it's own retrospective issue.
I used the excellent free paint.net software to clean up all the yellowed scans, added a few new game review screenshots as the original b/w ones were shot in so poor quality you could barely see them. I completely redesigned the pages to make everything fit together, kind of like fitting together a jigsaw puzzle. New cover artwork and index page with a short editorial by myself. So far it's proving to be a success. I've had plus4world contact me if they could upload it to their site which is fine by me, although I just got to quickly iron out the creases first.
The main thing I wanted to say though, that because Mort put so much time, effort and money collecting the magazines and scanning them for us, it's only right to place an advert for the zzap zzuperstore. You will see it just after the game reviews.
I wanted to make it a little snazzy, and I will probably add to the advert soon as there are a few bits in the magazine I'd like to iron out anyway. I decided it needed a proper logo, so I browsed through my Zzap scans and as I thought, found what I was looking for in a later issue.
http://i33.tinypic.com/20gjrtj.jpg
It was originally spread over 2 pages, so I had to join them together and remove the page creases (between the U and the P) which took some work, and touch it up here and there. It doesn't look bad, and I thought you may like to use it for your zzuperstore page. The letter P may need a little more ironing out though
http://www.commodore16.com/index.php/co ... ecial.html
As the C16 never had it's own proper commercial monthly magazine in the stores and when I found that C=Horizons covered just enough for 1 issue, I figured it was high time the 264 series had it's own retrospective issue.
I used the excellent free paint.net software to clean up all the yellowed scans, added a few new game review screenshots as the original b/w ones were shot in so poor quality you could barely see them. I completely redesigned the pages to make everything fit together, kind of like fitting together a jigsaw puzzle. New cover artwork and index page with a short editorial by myself. So far it's proving to be a success. I've had plus4world contact me if they could upload it to their site which is fine by me, although I just got to quickly iron out the creases first.
The main thing I wanted to say though, that because Mort put so much time, effort and money collecting the magazines and scanning them for us, it's only right to place an advert for the zzap zzuperstore. You will see it just after the game reviews.
I wanted to make it a little snazzy, and I will probably add to the advert soon as there are a few bits in the magazine I'd like to iron out anyway. I decided it needed a proper logo, so I browsed through my Zzap scans and as I thought, found what I was looking for in a later issue.
http://i33.tinypic.com/20gjrtj.jpg
It was originally spread over 2 pages, so I had to join them together and remove the page creases (between the U and the P) which took some work, and touch it up here and there. It doesn't look bad, and I thought you may like to use it for your zzuperstore page. The letter P may need a little more ironing out though