Mt Cd-rom

[Vile]

I guess the waiting game might take a while longer at this rate. Is there any chance MWM will hand the MT upgrade to someone else in the meantime? I'm sure there are many willing hands out there. I mean, I'd offer to do it myself, but I don't have the MT books to re-scan (hey, if I did, why would I need the CD-ROM?) or the software to turn them into PDFs.

 

[Tysis]

Appolgies but I am not sure what you are asking. What do you mean by "MT Upgrade?"

 

[aramis]

The MegaTraveller disk is said to have major issues with some piss-poor scan work. Only a few documents, but stuff that even a casual look-through should have caught.

There has been talk of a revised CD being done.

 

[hammerquill]

Just got my MT CD. It still has all the problems mentioned. There are threads from years ago on this forum talking about promised re-scans...

The bad scans with shaded text are a big problem in one or two of the books, but the biggest problem is four or five missing pages from the Player's Manual, including important character generation and skill list tables.

Marc Miller's explicit fair use policy says "About a page at a time" is okay for fair use, and okay to scan. I see far-trader has posted a missing page from the Classic Traveller reprint of the Droyne book on this site. Surely someone who has the actual books of Megatraveller can scan and post the missing pages of that?

The missing pages of the MT Player's Manual are 4 (which may be blank), 27 & 28 (which are pretty essential) and 63 & 64. (63 is important, too.)

I came here flat-out assuming the pages would already be available, actually. Can anyone scan them? Or have I missed some place this is announced, after a good 45 minutes of searching?

 

[Gadrin]

The problem often is when scanning the text needs to be nice and dark to get the correct resolution + OCR, but pictures and tables often aren't black on white and need to be done separately.

I've seen other RPGs that were scanned with some sort of process that were done to replicate the original books and it was done very nicely. You see the book exactly as it was, no darkening or distortions.

They look much different than the MT books.

I've also tried grabbing a screen print (via the Adobe Camera Icon on the toolbar) and dropping them into Paint Shop Pro and then trying to fix them, -- so far no go. I just got GIMP so that might have some tools (like find edges) to make the text stand out, then negatize the image to make it readable.

Still experimenting.

Anyway if the scanner can't make that original duplication, then I think it'll always have problems with pictures/graphs, etc.



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[hammerquill]

You can't pull data out of a picture that is no longer there, that was lost in the initial scan. You can maybe see some of the marginal bits, but those pages just need to be scanned at a higher resolution, and carefully photoshopped to preserve the data if they need to be shrunk to turn into pdfs.

But the big question is those pages that didn't get scanned in the first place. Anyone?...

 

[sandmanninja]

I love MegaTraveller. I started with Classic LBB and when MT was released, that was it for me. I got TNE, GURPS and T20 so I'd be complete (and to data mine), but I still prefer MT.

I have almost all MT books - from GDW and DGP. I had some dupes, but sold those long ago. I have all Challenge magazines, too. It was a great era and is full of many fond memories.

I just cannot believe that a CD was so rushed with so little QA checking. I mean, I could understand a Fan Effort to include crappy scans and what-not, but for something official...?

It takes time to scan things. If you're going to invest time to harvest money from loyal MT fans to help finance T5, then FFS do it right. If you don't want to do it right, then let someone else do it and you sign off on it.

I don't have any of the CDs - mainly because of the horror stories that I've read about here.