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April 20th, 2010, 23:05 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...ebay-scammers/
Have you noticed that magazine scan DVD sellers seem to be breeding on eBay? We have and are really getting sick of it all. These magazines remain copyrighted to the original publisher, whether they are still around or not, and they are definitely not “public domain” as one seller has laughably stated. The real kick here is that these scans are not even the work of these sellers and the majority of them were done by Mort at his own website at Zzap Zzuperstore and can also be found hosted around various magazine preservation websites for free. So with the only cost being the blank DVDs, these sellers are making between £5.00 and even up to £30.00 profit on each auction.
Well, we think enough is enough and it’s time to hit back. Remember, these people have no permission to sell these scans and don’t even have permission from the person who scanned them. I’ve already reported around 30 auctions from four different sellers. Yes, 30 auctions from 4 sellers. However, we all know that this is just the start. eBay may ignore this as a one off and just warn the seller. That’s where you come in. If you were a huge fan of these magazines then you owe it to yourself to report these copyrighted infringing auctions, again and again.
To make reporting the auctions that little bit easier I have included their user ids, links to their auctions and example reporting descriptions.
eBay has a long winded reporting system, but don’t let that put you off. Here’s what I’ve been reporting these DVDs as, but feel free to use your own method. To help the cause, feel free to send this announcement on to like minded people.
Report Item -> Counterfeit and breaches copyright -> Bootleg and counterfeit media -> Media on Recordable formats (CD-R, DVD-R, VHS tape, etc.)
Brief Description:
Mags remain copyright of Newsfield Publications. Seller has no permission to sell scans.
Mags remain copyright of www.emap.com. Seller has no permission to sell scans.
Mags remain copyright of Future Publishing-www.futureplc.com. Seller has no permission to sell scan
Mags remain copyright of Dennis Publishing-www.dennis.co.uk Seller has no permission to sell scans.
Mags remain copyright of original owners. Seller has no permission to sell scans.
All media on these DVDs remain copyright of original owners. Auction infringes ebay policies.
eBay scans DVD sellers. Here they are, named and shamed:
catherinesutton ( 176) http://shop.ebay.co.uk/catherinesutton/m.html
List of items currently selling (at time of writing):
ZZAP!64 Complete 90 issue set on DVD
Sega Force magazine collection all issues on DVD
Mean Machines Sega Complete 53 issue set on DVD
Crash Magazine Complete 98 issue set on DVD
Mean Machines Magazine Complete 24 issue set on DVD
Mean Machines Magazine Complete 24 issue set on DVD
sveta025 ( 33) http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZsveta025QQhtZ-1
List of items currently selling (at time of writing):
SUPER PLAY + N-FORCE +SNES FORCE MAGAZINES DVD COMPLETE
CVG COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAMES MAGAZINE DVD
SEGA FORCE MEGA MASTER VISIONS MAGAZINES COMPLETE DVD
ZERO VIDEO GAMES MAGAZINE DVD COMPLETE ALL ISSUES MAGZ
ACE ADVANCED COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE DVD MAGZ
MEAN MACHINES MM SEGA MAGAZINES DVD COMPLETE ALL ISSUES
NINTENDO POWER 1-145 FUN CLUB NEWS MAGAZINES 2 DVD
SINCLAIR ZX-SPECTRUM ENCYCL. ULTIMATE COLLECTION 20 DVD
COMMODORE C64 ULTIMATE ENCYCLOPEDIA 30 DVD COLLECTION
fpap1 ( 549) http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/RETRO-GAMERS-GARAGE
List of items currently selling (at time of writing):
Your Commodore & Commodore World Mag collection DVD
Mean Machines + MM SEGA + The Games Machine C64/128 DVD
NEW CVG COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES 1-126 EXCLUSIVE EXTRAS
AHOY ! Commodore 64/128 Amiga COMPLETE Magazine DVD
Compute! Gazette COMPLETE Magazine Collection 2 DVD C64
RUN Commodore 64 / 128 Magazine Complete Collection DVD
Commodore Format + Commodore Disk User Collection DVD
Compute! Magazine Collection 4 DVD C64 – Apple II
The One + Games Machine + Raze mags on DVD + Coverdisks
Sinclair Spectrum ZX Ultimate Collection – 7 DVD’s
Commodore User + Micro Adventurer collection C64 DVD
COMPLETE CRASH Magazine DVD – Spectrum – ZX – Sinclair
COMPLETE Sinclair User Magazine DVD – ZX Spectrum
ACE MAGAZINE + COVER TAPES inc No 1 + EXCLUSIVE MUSIC
ZERO + The Games Machine DVD – PC – Atari ST – Amiga
Commodore Magazine + Big K + Micro Adventurer C64 Amiga
CU Amiga Magazine COMPLETE Collection 2 DVD
ALL NINTENDO POWER + N FORCE + SNES FORCE Magazines DVD
COMPLETE Your Sinclair Magazine DVD – ZX Spectrum
Zzap! 64 COMPLETE + Commodore Horizons Collection DVD
lynnanne12374 ( 1000) http://shop.ebay.co.uk/lynnanne12374/m.html
List of items currently selling (at time of writing):
Sega Force, Mega & Master Force Magazine – ALL ISSUES!
Zzap!64 Commodore C64 Magazine – ALL ISSUES! ZZAP 64
Crash Sinclair ZX Spectrum Magazine – ALL ISSUES!
ALL Amstrad Computer User & CPC Attack Magazine on DVD
Nintendo N-Force & SNES-Force Magazine – ALL ISSUES!
Your Commodore & Your 64 Magazine – ALL ISSUES! 2xDVD
Good luck, everyone, and spread the word.
EDIT: meppi, over at Out-of-Print Archive, has a quick way to report up to 10 listings at a time:
To make it a bit easier you can use these numbers for the above autions:
110510119070, 110510125020, 110519895291, 110519890332, 110510122909, 110521034947, 110522142686, 110522145077
250607170950, 250607171200, 250607171502, 250607172047, 250607172519, 250607172973, 250610003854, 250610445863, 250617133936
190382661307, 200452958522, 200455016514, 200455626960, 200460217312, 190388199101, 200460219179, 200460225325, 200460228615, 200460815764, 200461632603, 190389210276, 200461634463, 200461634537, 190389445528, 190389866039, 200462585276, 190390210730, 200463415978
They can be reported in a batch of 10 at a time.
To report them, got to an item in question and on the righthand side underneath the seller info and other item info box you’ll find a “report item” link.
Click it and choose:
Counterfeits and breach of copyright
bootlegs and counterfeit media
unauthorized copies of printed materials
Then hit continue.
Fill in the numbers (max. 10 at a time)
And in the brief description section write something along the lines of: “Copyright infringement of video game magazines without the publishers authorization”
http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...ebay-scammers/
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April 20th, 2010, 23:02 Posted By: wraggster
This is an automated message generated by ROMhacking.net’s RHDNBot.
The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Super Mario Kart Alternate Tracks (Complete)
- Burning Spaceship - Galg (Complete)
Akumaju Densetsu - PAL Fix (Addendum)
Guardian Legend Secret (Complete)
Spooky Kitaro 2 Password Fix (Addendum)
FFVI Last Hope: All*Stars (Complete)
Soap Panic Partial Repair (Bug Fix)
Unhardcoded Tintinabar (Improvement)
Final Fantasy Legend - text fix / re-translation edit (Improvement)
Super Mario Kart By NandoPro (Complete)
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/inde...pic,10689.html
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April 20th, 2010, 22:54 Posted By: wraggster
What's the surest sign that robots aspire to be more like humans? They play video games. The Tetris-Bot operates completely without human interference to play games of old school Tetris on a computer. Creator Branislov Kisacanin patched together a webcam, a digital signaling processing board, and some NXT Lego as a fun educational project for his kids.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/1...t-Plays-Tetris
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April 18th, 2010, 12:37 Posted By: wraggster
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Issue 6 of MAXIMUM – the multiformat magazine edited by Richard Leadbetter – has been released over at Out-of-Print Archive and what a fine cover to go with a games packed issue. The release was scanned, edited and compiled by meppi, who also had the hard choice of picking four articles to accompany the magazine. The four online articles chosen are the MAXIMUM close-up: Panzer Dragoon Zwei (Saturn), interview with id Software on Quake (PC), the Sony Playstation Expo ‘96 feature and the D&D Shadows Over Mystara (Arcade) feature. All this and more can be found at the MAXIMUM 6 page at Out-of-Print Archive.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...aximum006.html
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April 17th, 2010, 10:42 Posted By: zx-81
Hi All,
Dingux Chess uses the GNU Chess version 5.07 for the Artificial Intelligence. It is a port to Dingux of my previous GP2X-Wiz version, with some new graphics (thanks to Satya).
What's new in this version ?
- Improve skin selector feature
- Add new chess piece skins from NinJato
How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.
Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public license,
read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.
See http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/
Enjoy,
Zx
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April 15th, 2010, 23:42 Posted By: wraggster
The folks at mental_floss magazine always said reading their publication will make you smarter. They never expected it could make someone a quick $31,600.
Last month, Tanner Sandlin of Austin, Texas, read a mental_floss article about rare video games that had been republished on CNN.com. Mr. Sandlin recognized one of the games – Air Raid for the Atari 2600 – and headed for his garage. After finding the thirteenth known copy of Air Raid, he put it on eBay, and on April 10th, the game sold for $31,600 – the second-highest price ever paid for a video game.
Sandlin said he paid between $5 and $10 for Air Raid in the mid-1980s at a store called Tuesday Morning in Arlington, Texas. He still had the original packaging, which gave him the only known complete copy of the game in existence.
Oddly enough, Sandlin remembered that the game wasn't all that fun. In fact, the only reason he still had it was because it was so bad. He and his friends used to borrow games from each other all the time – sometimes you'd get your game back, sometimes you wouldn't. Back then no one else wanted Air Raid.
Sandlin's not complaining now.
When mental_floss asked what he intended to do with the money, he wasn't quite sure. He did know that he wanted to buy something tangible; something he could point at it and say, "I bought that with a video game!"
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April 15th, 2010, 00:37 Posted By: wraggster
Stephen Seehorn and I have released an incomplete English translation patch for Madou Monogatari for the Sega Game Gear! It is incomplete because we have not fully tested it. The full script has been inserted and should be fully playable but we make no guarantees. There are text bleed issues. The script has not been checked. The ending text is gonna be screwed up because we have no way of knowing where the text speed pointer is without actually seeing it display and tracing it backwards which requires beating it. Otherwise it’s pretty awesome. NOTE: Patch is in Ninja format. Enjoy!
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/inde...pic,10653.html
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April 14th, 2010, 00:16 Posted By: wraggster
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Issue 39 of Commodore Free is out and it’s a special nostalgia edition, with memoirs from the likes of john Fielden, Peter Badrick, Chris Syntichakis, Shaun Bebbington, Charles J. Gutman and Commodore Free. Commodore Free is a monthly retrogaming magazine that comes in PDF, HTML, SEQ, Text, .DSK (C64 disk image) and features news, reviews and interviews involving the Commodore scene (C64, Amiga, VIC-20, C16). Highlights of the issue include:
NEWS
- New Version: D64Lister 1.7
- CCS64 Updated
- BASIC Game Competition
- Amiga Zorro RAMBoard
- Digital Talk 90
- TAP Clean
- Clear Competition Pro
- Commodore Plus/4 Spreadsheet
- Datatool
- Return Issue 2
- VIC20 Twitter Client
- New Version of SD2IEC Released
- PET Alive!
NOSTALGIA
- Commodore Free
- John Fielden
- Peter Badrick
- Chris Syntichakis
- Commodore Free (2)
- Shaun Bebbington
- Charles J. Gutman
Weblink: http://www.commodorefree.com
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April 12th, 2010, 22:12 Posted By: wraggster
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Issue 75 of Retro Gamer has been released in stores across the UK. Retro Gamer is a commercial UK magazine dedicated to retrogaming and also can be picked up around the world at select stores and by subscription. Highlights in this issue include:
The Making of… Addams Family
The Making of… Road Blasters
Classic Game: Rez
Dizzy feature
Let’s All Play… Beachhead
Retrospection: Famicom Disk System
Desert Island Disks: Steve Bristow
In the Chair With… John Romero
From the Archives: Tynesoft
http://www.retrogamer.net/
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April 8th, 2010, 23:42 Posted By: wraggster
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With things settling down after the April Fools gag, Out-of-Print Archive now move onto the next phase with their first of a new regular monthly feature. Back in Time looks at the classic videogaming magazines that were released 20 years ago this month. This month, naturally, starts with April 1990 when the likes of Zzap!64, C&VG, Your Sinclair and Crash reigned supreme in the UK market.
That’s not all though as OoPA have created new sections to accommodate this regular feature, mainly the micro computer section, which will eventually fill up with classic online material. This month OoPA chose Zzap!64 Amiga’s review of Midwinter for the Amiga, Your Sinclair’s review of Rainbow Islands for the ZX Spectrum, ACE’s interview with Lucasfilm Games and Zero’s hilarious Artistic Licensing featuring Back to the Future part II.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/art...pril_1990.html
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April 8th, 2010, 23:40 Posted By: wraggster
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Retrogaming Times Monthly 71 has been released. The monthly html e-zine contains articles, reviews and news on all manners of retrogaming. The April 2010 edition is available online now at the RTM website. Highlights this issue include:
The Cybernet Society 1995-1997 R.I.P.
Vectrexenstein – Pole Position
Apple II Incider – Mario Bros.
NES’Cade – 720 Degrees
All Eyes On…Super Hang-On
Dual Perspective – Final Fight
Mutated Output: Patsies, Pioneers, and Politics
The Homebrew Sleuth: Atari 2600 Cave In
Modern Retro – Spyro The Dragon
A Pixilated 21st Century!
Arcade Memories
Weblink: http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm71/
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