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Ken, I just uploaded four pictures in the Police Quest section (pages from the PQ1 manual). Before uploading them here, I viewed them in my browser window at 100% and they were legible. But once they were uploaded, they seem to have been automatically resized, which makes the text harder to read. They’re definitely displaying at less than 100%.
I’m using IE6… when I hover my cursor over the upper left corner of the pictures, I get the little toolbar that gives me options to print, send to My Pictures folder, etc. But when I hover the cursor over the lower right corner nothing happens. Normally, doing this lets you enlarge the picture to 100% (since IE6 automatically shrinks pictures to the size of the window they’re in.)
I saw that you said wide pictures would be resized automatically… these all started out around 600 pixels wide. Is that too much? They’ve been resized to about 450 pixels wide, even though there seems to be plenty of space in the frame for them to display at a larger size…
-emily -
(re: possible to view images at 100%?) Ken, I just uploaded four pictures in the Police Quest section (pages from the PQ1 manual). Before uploading them here, I viewed them in my browser window at 100% and they were legible. But once they were uploaded, they seem to have been automatically resized, which makes the text harder to read. They’re definitely displaying at less than 100%.
I’m using IE6… when I hover my cursor over the upper left corner of the pictures, I get the little toolbar that gives me options to print, send to My Pictures folder, etc. But when I hover the cursor over the lower right corner nothing happens. Normally, doing this lets you enlarge the picture to 100% (since IE6 automatically shrinks pictures to the size of the window they’re in.)
I saw that you said wide pictures would be resized automatically… these all started out around 600 pixels wide. Is that too much? They’ve been resized to about 450 pixels wide, even though there seems to be plenty of space in the frame for them to display at a larger size…
-emily
Emily:
It’s funny you should mention this – I was just thinking about it today. There are times when you WANT to upload a picture and not have it automatically resized. I’m swamped tomorrow – but, sometime in the next few days I’ll add a button on the upload dialog which says “please do not shrink this picture”.
-Ken W -
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(re: possible to view images at 100%?) Yeah, the site actually resizes the pics – because if you save them to your HD and look at them, they are still small.
It seems you have a lot of great documentation Emily, and some others have as well. I think these are things that we would want to add to the scanning project – high quality scanning along with time spent to make them look as good as possible. I don’t know what Brad has, but I sure don’t have a lot of this stuff (I’ll be updating my list to list ALL my Sierra stuff tomorrow). In fact I’ve been playing PQ1 VGA since I setup my Sierra gaming computer, it’s one I never really was able to play, but I don’t have the documentation – and I wanted to see it for that nice map! I’m don’t remember how you’re setup to scan Emily, but if you could scan the pics large enough for us (Brad and I are re-discussing formatting right now), and upload them to this site just temporarily since they’re big, so that we can download them and then you can delete them, Brad or I could do any editing / fix-ups required afterwards. -
(re: re: possible to view images at 100%?) I don’t have a ton of the old documentation, but I hang onto it with rabid fierceness, so what I do have is pretty nice. I know I could download these games if I wanted to… but the manuals are hard to come by!
I have documentation for KQ5-7 (the king’s quest 6 manual is very nice, on this stiff paper that was meant not to xerox…), SQ1 & 4, QfG1, PQ1 VGA (there’s writing on the map though… I didn’t do it! got this used…) & PQ4, GK2-3, Rise of the Dragon (Dynamix), and Red Baron. I have hint books for KQ5, PQ4, Freddy Pharkus… there may be a few more things in the stack, I’d have to go look. Oh, I just bought a boxed Castle of Dr. Brain, there’s a manual and hint book in there too. Unfortunately my dad gave away our Apple IIGS games when he gave away the computer, so the earlier stuff was lost. (I never quite forgave him for this…)
I had started scanning the Space Piston magazine from SQ4 to upload here, but the files got so big I never finished.
I’d be happy to scan stuff at high resolution and upload them for you somewhere so you could tweak them. Just tell me what you want and where they should go.
-emily
ps These are books, but I also have the KQ7 hint book / strategy guide thingie (like there was strategy involved…), Larry collection strategy guide (which includes an interview with Al Lowe), and King’s Quest Companion version something-or-other… it goes through KQ6. For catalogs, I have 1995-1996 games, “Family Spectrum of Games” that came with Dr. Brain (and Larry’s in there! guess they didn’t actually mean “family games”…), maybe some others but I have to go through the boxes and look. -
(Emily’s Documentation / Books)
That’s cool Emily. Tell you what, I didn’t get around to updating my list, but once I do, you can compare with what I have (I have a few of the things you do too). Then whatever is not on my list you can work on scanning. Then you can just upload them here and Brad or I will download em, then you can delete em. You could just put a message in this thread and upload and delete attachments from it. I’m sure Ken won’t mind a couple megs of temporary space. Or you could email me (different email than my email listed here) 1 image per day.
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