Mean Machines Magazine Issues 01-24 (Oct 1990 - Sep 1992) Mean Machines was a multi-format magazine published by EMAP, focussing on gaming on the consoles of the era. It ran for 24 issues before splitting into two separate machines, "Mean Machines Sega" and "Nintendo Magazine System" (both available at RetroPDFs). These PDFs are the compiled collections of page scans available on public torrent trackers . They've been OCR'd to allow text searching and copying - this should prove very useful for the retro archivist who'd like to have their own local searchable archive. They look great on most PDF readers, including the iPad. The OCR software has done it's best, but has struggled with some of the more unusual fonts and layouts used and by the relatively low DPI of the source images. The file size is a bit larger than the combined size of the original JPG images; I've done my best to make the PDF's as compact as possible without losing image quality. Be grateful for cheap storage :) More OCR'd scans will be periodically available - please check http://retropdfs.wordpress.com (or Google RetroPDFs) for more information. Thanks to Martijn van der Heide for the wonderful World Of Spectrum site (www.worldofspectrum.org), and all the visitors and donators to RetroPDFs for their support. 90's style "greets" to anyone formally or currently involved in the Amiga scene, especially Pazza, Mic Flair, Violator, Denzil, Tango, Fat Will, mUb and Maximan, and anyone else who read or wrote for LSD Grapevine. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be ;) Ken D fabwhack@gmail.com http://retropdfs.wordpress.com (Google 'RetroPDFs')
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