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Thunderscan? There's some neat history behind that project.

https://www.folklore.org/Thunderscan.html




I had a thunderscan. I spent weeks scanning the entirety of the loose-leaf AD&D 2e Monstrous Compendium and uploaded the 72dpi b&w monster images to my local Hermes bbs as PICTs. I don’t know why. It made sense to me at the time.


>It made sense to me at the time.

Any reason to self-host copies of something digital always make sense ;)


That was it. We squeezed every trick out of that thing.




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