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Title: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 10, 2012, 05:48:13 PM
First, I'm new here. Hi. Howya doin'?

I blog over at Rended Press: http://rendedpress.blogspot.com


Okay, now a request:

Does anyone know where I can find the pdfs of the CBGuide? The links on the wiki are dead. Google is no help at all.

I have a zine resource page at my blog (above) and I'd really love to include the old issues of the CBGuide. I'll even host them.

So, please, anyone?
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: O Senhor Leetz on April 10, 2012, 05:59:20 PM
Wait, we have a CBGuide?
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 10, 2012, 06:28:39 PM
If you aren't pulling my leg (which I hope you aren't), the wiki page is here:

http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php/CBGuide

But the link to the issues are dead.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Elemental_Elf on April 10, 2012, 06:31:39 PM
Old links were killed when we moved the site. Here you go:

-Suggestion Box (http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,18899)
- Download links (http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,27981)

EDIT: Hmm, the links to the actual downloads aren't working... Grr.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 10, 2012, 06:34:05 PM
Yup. Seems the download directory was nuked.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Nomadic on April 10, 2012, 06:36:37 PM
I will look through the old archives and see what I can find. :)
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Elemental_Elf on April 10, 2012, 06:39:58 PM
Quote from: Nomadic
I will look through the old archives and see what I can find. :)

As far as I can tell, its just the actual download links that are not working. I'm sure they're still in the system some where, we just need to find the URLs for them.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Nomadic on April 10, 2012, 06:45:36 PM
I've looked through the old backups and none of them have the guides. This leads me to suspect that they were removed before I even took over. As to the old files, none of those were moved over to the new system as it isn't compatible with how the old system handled files. I still have the old files in archive, but the archive does not include the guides for some reason. I'm sorry that we can't be more helpful :/
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: LD on April 10, 2012, 08:55:14 PM
I have the September 2007 edition saved. I may have others, but that's the most accessible one.

I bet Elven Doritos would have them all.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Hibou on April 10, 2012, 09:09:47 PM
He does not (I asked). I will see if I have any but I lost a hard drive a while ago. :/
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: limetom on April 10, 2012, 09:10:54 PM
I have the Spring 2008 Fantaseum. Oddly enough, nothing else. Swore I had all of them.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Túrin on April 10, 2012, 09:58:40 PM
Hey guys (first post in 4.5 years woohoo)!

I actually have the first seven issues of the CBGuide on my hard drive. As far as I can tell, more than seven were made, but not much more. At any rate, the seven issues I have all date back to before the issue limetom mentions in the post above me.

Vlark, feel free to email me at turinthemormegil@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDFs.

Admins, also feel free to email me and I'll send you the PDFs as well to put back somewhere on the site (assuming this is deemed desirable).

(The email address is kept separate from my main deliberately, so please excuse a possibly long reply time.)
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 10, 2012, 10:43:35 PM
Quote from: Túrin
Hey guys (first post in 4.5 years woohoo)!

I actually have the first seven issues of the CBGuide on my hard drive. As far as I can tell, more than seven were made, but not much more. At any rate, the seven issues I have all date back to before the issue limetom mentions in the post above me.

Vlark, feel free to email me at turinthemormegil@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDFs.

Admins, also feel free to email me and I'll send you the PDFs as well to put back somewhere on the site (assuming this is deemed desirable).

(The email address is kept separate from my main deliberately, so please excuse a possibly long reply time.)

Email sent!

Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 10, 2012, 11:03:16 PM
Quote from: Nomadic
I've looked through the old backups and none of them have the guides. This leads me to suspect that they were removed before I even took over. As to the old files, none of those were moved over to the new system as it isn't compatible with how the old system handled files. I still have the old files in archive, but the archive does not include the guides for some reason. I'm sorry that we can't be more helpful :/

I searched Google by typing this in the search box:

site:thecbg.org  filetype:pdf


It brought up bupkis.  Even the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine  (archive.org) came up empty.

Still, it looks like Túrin is going to come through!

Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Steerpike on April 10, 2012, 11:04:41 PM
I wonder if Ishmayl might have some old PDFs of it around?
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Nomadic on April 11, 2012, 12:45:41 AM
Quote from: Steerpike
I wonder if Ishmayl might have some old PDFs of it around?
He might, but I haven't been able to get any response from him by email for a long time (not sure if he's changed emails or what). Anyhow thanks a ton Turin I sent you an email. To anyone else who has pieces of the guide please let me know, I'd like to put it back up on the site if possible
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Vlark on April 11, 2012, 09:36:36 AM
I now have all issues in my possession, including the issues from the switch to Fantaseum. The first issue of Fantaseum was a huge file (28 MB), so I re-saved the PDF and compressed the images, resulting in a 8MB file.

I've changed the file names to reflect the issue order, too.

I've posted all the issues on my Dropbox account, here:

http://dropbox.com/sh/uk54705g8mryvvo/vQt1WZtKrQ
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Nomadic on April 11, 2012, 05:28:50 PM
Quote from: Vlark
I now have all issues in my possession, including the issues from the switch to Fantaseum. The first issue of Fantaseum was a huge file (28 MB), so I re-saved the PDF and compressed the images, resulting in a 8MB file.

I've changed the file names to reflect the issue order, too.

I've posted all the issues on my Dropbox account, here:

http://dropbox.com/sh/uk54705g8mryvvo/vQt1WZtKrQ

Thank you sir. I'll see about making sure these are back up on thecbg again :)
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Steerpike on April 11, 2012, 07:21:43 PM
Hey Vlark, thanks for tracking those down and welcome to the CBG!
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Nomadic on April 11, 2012, 07:51:00 PM
Also you're totally welcome to put the CBGuide on your blog... if you could link back to the cbg in return that would be much appreciated.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Cheomesh on April 18, 2012, 10:27:01 AM
Thanks!  Are any more bound to be created, or has that gone away?

M.
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: LD on April 18, 2012, 09:23:53 PM
That's great!
Title: Re: Dumb Question From A Newb - Old CBGuide PDFs?
Post by: Matt Larkin (author) on April 22, 2012, 10:21:57 AM
Quote from: Túrin
Hey guys (first post in 4.5 years woohoo)!

I actually have the first seven issues of the CBGuide on my hard drive. As far as I can tell, more than seven were made, but not much more. At any rate, the seven issues I have all date back to before the issue limetom mentions in the post above me.


Vlark, feel free to email me at turinthemormegil@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDFs.

Admins, also feel free to email me and I'll send you the PDFs as well to put back somewhere on the site (assuming this is deemed desirable).

(The email address is kept separate from my main deliberately, so please excuse a possibly long reply time.)

Wow, welcome back Turin. Can't believe it's been that long.