Feedback

Slowly but surely reactions are coming in... Progwereld was the first, by the way:

And German Empire Magazine had a really long and constructive one:

I appendix added

The I Chapter was a bit massive (due some of the cover pictures). Those experiencing difficulties downloading it, please contact me for a solution!

Meanwhile, here's the next one, covering all the related "I" bands that didn't make the other part. Click picture for download.

Happy New Year & Enjoy The Next Chapter

Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present...

The I-Chapter. Everything you always wanted to know from I to IZZ. Well, actually not everything because I came across a bunch of additional pictures and material today, but decided to keep this for a second edition and instead work in order to get another chapter out in a month or so...

Meanwhile, you can download the I-chapter. The statistics: 20 MB, 112 pages, over 500 cover pictures (the main reason for the size of the file...), 275 entries and 180 reviews. And as usual: full contents and artist index.

Enjoy and please don't forget to give some feedback. It's still very quiet in that department!

Meanwhile I keep working on the I appendix (coming within the next 2 weeks I hope) and a.s.a.p. after that the J-chapter!

Prog on.

A Appendix upgraded

It turned out that I had uploaded the A Appendix with wrong security settings. Thanks for alerting me Peter!

I've corrected this mistake and below you find the corrected link when you click on the picture.

Or just here.

Background Magazine - some old issues

Last weekend I've been organizing some old (and not quite so old) harddiscs and came across a load of Background Magazine files, partly scans of really old issues in the making, mostly however pdf pages.

I've assembled the pages that belonged together in the respective files respresenting a complete or partly complete issue which are now available for download.

Please be aware that the quality of the files may differ. Some are based on scans (and thus not searchable), some are in screen quality (and thus in a comfortable file size), some are high/press quality files (and thus enormously big).

Leafing through the material was quite fun and a satisfying experience too. I've been involved in pretty much all of the issues I uploaded now - first as writer/reviewe, later as main editor or editor. Some really good stuff there. Most of it ends also up in the book eventually in one way or another (compare for example the Anyone's Daughter story with the entry in the book!). But there are also many great things you will find only here. Like Maurice's great layout from BM 84 onwards (he was definitely better at it than I was), the Prog In Russia series by Dave McConnell (also presented as a seperate file), and obviously the coolest special ever: Prog & Sex. Check issue 81 for that one!

Available so far:

Issue 43

Issue 44

Issue 45 (without title page)

Issue 46 (incomplete)

Issue 47

Issue 52 (incomplete)

There are scans of really 'old' issues in the making. Quite interesting though as you can see some of the production in progress...

From my period as main editor: (all below are proper pdf files)

Issue 70 (only a couple of pages found, so far)

Issue 74

Issue 77

Issue 78 (one blank page, beats me why)

Issue 79

Issue 80
Issue 81
Issue 82
Issue 83

And after the change of Main Editor:

Issue 84
Issue 85

Issue 86
Issue 92

Beware - these files are really big (between 50 and 80 MB). But in superb printing quality and with great layout.

Some pages may be blank, by the way. These were mostly pages with advertisements I didn't have available here... Must be on the original CDrs in the Background Archives somewhere...

And the Prog In Russia special in two files:

Part 1 - 7 with layout

Part 8 - 10 without layout (hope to find the final versions soon...)

Have fun!

Overall contents...

I've spent some time to assemble the overall contents of File Under Jurassic Rock's various chapters as they are at the moment (status 18 september 2009).

Those who are interested - you can find it here. A staggering number of 15.000+ entries already. That was quite scaring to me...

X-Files uploaded

Originally I had planned to do some other chapters first... But when I discovered how little work this one would be I changed the plans...

Get it by clicking the picture!