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Request: Macwelt year collection CDs (1989/1990 - 2009)

From the Macwelt magazine (= German equivalent of Macworld for those who don't know it) there were issued year collection CDs for the years 1995-2009.

In February 2002, there was a special issue named "Macwelt DVD 1" with a huge software collection which also comprised a folder named "Macwelt 1995-2000" with all issues of theses years as True PDFs (link).

In September 2002, there was a follow-up special issue named "Macwelt DVD 2", again with a huge software collection and issues of the years 1998-2001 included as True PDFs (link).

In September 2009, having 20-year anniversary, Macwelt offered all the issues so far released (1989-2009) for download:
1989/1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

Unfortunately, these links will not work anymore now, after several redesigns of the homepage (link).

In 2009, Macwelt started to release all issues of the previous year as True PDFs included in the accompanying CD of the january issue 02/20XX (link).
The regular year collection CDs were replaced this way after 2009.

The FAQ (link) says these old year collection CDs continued to be sold in its shop until 2010.
The shop nowadays offers only montly and yearly subscription of the magazine as print or digital issues (link). Oldest offered back print issue still available is 01/2013.

So the year collection CDs or the True PDFs of the issues before 01/2013 are not available anymore and regarding the fact that Macwelt itself offered issues of the years 1989-2009 for a period of time, there is no reason, in my opinion, why we could not preserve at least the issues of 1989-2009 on our website for future reference.

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I found someone offering the issues "Macwelt DVD 1", "Macwelt DVD 2" and "Macwelt DVD 3" which have included the True PDFs of issues of the years 1995-2001. I don't know if this offer is still valid. It seems to be only for local persons at Cologne, Germany (link).

Is anyone living there and willing to purchase these for us ?

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I don't know if this offer is still valid.

Question sent. Smile

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Positive reply for 25 eggs (aka Euro currency) + 2 eggs shipping costs.

I think I owned one or two of these Macwelt DVDs at its time,
but probably sold it away /:many many:/ years ago.

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Direct links to downloads, which of course don't work anymore: http://pastebin.com/hPSjwmPA

Crying

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@Daxeria:
What a pity ! Those was probably the free give-aways for the 20-year anniversary ! Sad
I hope we can find these still anywhere !

@IIGS_User:
Sounds good ! We could at least get the True PDFs of the years 1995-2001 this way ! And there should be lots of Software for the Mac OS on these DVDs, too ! So it is very interesting for our website !
Are you willing to buy these and image them for us ?

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Are you willing to buy these and image them for us ?

Yes, it's done.

As I wrote above, I remembered I "owned" one or two of the DVD editions:
I still own Volume 1, bought it at its time, and the DVD is still sealed within its paper sleeve. Wink

True, 1995 to 2k is located on this DVD.

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That are great news ! Smile
It would be a good addition to the "Macwelt Archiv-CD 1999-2003" that you have already uploaded.

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Got a bunch of Macwelt year collection CDs, and a MACup DVD, including year collections 2000 to 2009.