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Flipping through the viewer made aware of how broken it was for anyone with a slow connection. It's a link to a middle page on a PDF viewer in archive.org. It

• nix23 6y ago
  It's 1985 and the slow connection was called postal service...you know that thing that broth you deadwood editions of pdf's. >It annoys me you can't do things better than that. Today you can, buy a faster connection or step on your government feet.
• genpfault 6y ago
  Not sure if there are official IA specs for such things but pretty much all of these old magazine scans tend to have a ZIP full of JPEG2000 images, which the IA will generate directory listings for: https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_jp2.zip/ https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe... From there you can hit those 'jpg' links next to each page, though the URLs can get pretty long: https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_jp2.zip/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_jp2%2FForth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_0029.jp2&ext=jpg https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe... https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_jp2.zip/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_jp2%2FForth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5_0030.jp2&ext=jpg https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe...