Latest News 2010 Archive 2009 Archive 2008 Archive 2007 Archive 2006 Archive 2005 Archive 2004 Archive	20 February 2010 Fundraising to scan issues past 100 Hi everyone! One of the most frequently asked questions that I receive is with regards to the availability of full scans of issues past 100. There are essentially two main reasons why these are not on the site: All issues past 100 have a glued binding. There is really no way to properly scan these issues without taking apart the binding, and therefore damaging the magazines in the process. I only have one of every issue, and I'm not ready to cut them up. Page counts go through the roof. Few issues have less than 200 pages, some have up to 500 pages! Most issues from 1-100 had between 60-80 pages. There's a very significant amount of work involved to scan so many pages, and it's just not realistic to do so with my old flatbed scanner But...! There is hope. Late last year, I was contacted by someone looking to donate his set of magazines, for the cost of shipping. These happen to cover most issues between 100 and 200. This solves problem #1. Also late last year, a friend of mine showed me the capabilities of the Fujitsu ScanSnap, essentially an automatic page scanner which is the perfect solution for scanning so many pages: it's fast, gives good quality, automatically feeds pages, and scans both sides of a page during the same pass. With this scanner, the amount of work involved to create the scans is manageable. This solves problem #2. Of course, this introduces problem #3: paying for shipping and a ScanSnap. Which is where you come in. If I can raise $750 ($500 for the scanner, $250 for shipping the magazines - they're heavy and I'm in Canada), I will start scanning issues past 100. Good deal? I think so, it's only about $25 per person if only 30 people donate (which is less than the number of people who have asked for issues past 100!). So consider this to be the start of the CGW Museum fundraising campaign. Donations can be sent via PayPal to: cgwmuseum@gmail.com. I'll update the status of fundraising regularly. Oh, and if instead someone has a ScanSnap S1500 to donate, that'd be OK too! 23 August 2009 Softline! Hello everyone... yes, it has been a while since the last update. This update isn't strictly related to CGW, but I think anyone who is interested in vintage computer gaming will appreciate it! The Museum is now hosting the entire run (16 issues) of Softline magazine, scanned and processed with the same care as all the CGW issues. And yes, these issues are also text-searchable... what did you expect? :-) For those who are not familiar, Softline was a spinoff of Softalk, dedicated to computer gaming and other recreational pursuits. The magazine was published from September 1981 to April 1984. The style is different than CGW - Softline focuses a lot on the personalities involved in gaming, including a number of interviews with programmers and profiles of companies. It's a great complement to CGW. You can find the Softline issues in the Galleries section of the Museum. The index has also been updated, and now includes the 540 000+ words from Softline. Please note that to include Softline on the site, the filenames for CGW issues have now changed. Any DVDs sent out by the Museum will now include CGW, CGF, and Softline. 2 January 2009 Happy New Year Best wishes from the CGW Museum to everyone, for a happy and prosperous 2009. Unfortunately there weren't many updates to the site in 2008, but that kind of comes with the territory - it's not easy to find new material when covering a publication that's no longer in print! Which, sadly, is 100% the case now, given that CGW's successor, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, went out of print - the last issue was dated April/May 2008. Still, the CGW Museum has continued to provide visitors with the first 100 CGW issues in digitized and indexed format, and judging from the number of visitors, the site is more popular than ever. Thanks to everyone who has dropped by, and particularly to those who have taken the time to send me an e-mail. So what am I looking to do for 2009? Hopefully getting some contributions from former CGW staff. And I'm hoping to interview Jeff Green (who, if you haven't heard, left Ziff Davis a few months back). If you've written for CGW or were involved with CGW in the past, and would like to contribute something to the Museum, please get in touch - I'm looking for your input! 15 April 2008 Wow! Lots of traffic during the last week or so - thanks to everyone who has posted a link to the site in their features about the cancellation of CGW/GFW. Particular thanks to Jeff Green for the link from his blog! With all this traffic, the site has used up record levels of bandwidth. As I've previously mentioned, the site is hosted free of charge by vintagegaming.org, and as such I ask again that you please be reasonable with your magazine downloads. Some of the larger issues are 50+ megabytes, and it doesn't take long for the downloads to add up. I'll be happy to send out a DVD to anyone who's interested - just send me an e-mail. As well, the CGW issues have been mirrored at this site: http://pdf.textfiles.com/zines/CGW. Thanks in advance! 12 April 2008 End of the line for CGW/GFW Ziff Davis announced just a few days ago that it was shutting down Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (GFW). You can read the story here. The magazine, which already had a significant online presence, will be replaced by online-only content at Ziff Davis' 1up.com website. You might recall that GFW was the successor to CGW, introduced in December 2006 as a re-branding of the magazine which debuted in November 1981. All together, CGW and GFW covered 26 and a half years of computer gaming. The cancellation of GFW leaves PC Gamer as the only remaining print magazine of significant readership devoted solely to computer gaming.
Computer Gaming World is a trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. The CGW Museum has no affiliation with Ziff Davis. Questions, comments or suggestions? Please send an e-mail to the Museum
137612 visitors have set foot in the Museum since 17 Mar 2004
Best viewed at 1024 by 768 or higher resolution