National Lampoon
by GIT Corp
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Software Reviews of National Lampoon
Customer Review: A must have for any NatLampCo fan
Summary: 4 Stars
All of the stories, articles and comics that you have loved since the 1970s is preserved in this DVD. Just looking at the period ads is like playing with a time machine that sparks memories.
There are two down sides to this otherwise great product; the PDF user interface is most annoying, as is the watermark on all of the prints generated by the DVD.
Customer Review: Not Perfect, But What Is?
Summary: 4 Stars
Considering what you get for about [...] this is a great value. I've been looking for years to find a complete set of National Lampoon. When you could find a complete set, it was always very expensive. Now you can get the whole thing and read it and store it on your computer. It is all there; every page, article and ad! If you love National Lampoon, you'll have it now forever.
Before I bought it, I read the reviews here complaining about various problems (ie, the text was not readable, the disc didn't work, sections were missing). Because of the price, I decided to take a chance. I'm glad I did. The product is exactly as described. The whole run of the magazine on one disc. I have had no problems reading it. The disc works perfectly fine in my apple computer and it is very easy to move around in the apple "preview" program. I didn't need to download adobe to use it.
Two complaints: (1) it is just a pdf scan of every page of the magazine. Thus, there is no hypertext jumping around, for example in the table of contents of each issue. Search features are limited. Using apple preview, you can do word searches in individual issues. However, there is no feature to search all of the magazine for topics or articles. A comprehensive search feature would be nice. But I can certainly live without it. (2) Some of the scanned pages are not "perfect." Most are just fine, but you should know in advance that you are getting a bunch of scanned magazine pages, not the pristine proof pages from the publisher.
Bottom line: I'm really glad I bought it.
Customer Review: Good magazine, poor scans.
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed paging through and reading some of those old issues of National Lampoon, especially the ones I remembered reading as a kid when they were new. It's easy to spend an hour or more going through just a few issues.
The scans are fair at best, sometimes unreadable, but they appear to be the best that's available so far. At a $30-$35 price for 246 issues it's still a good value for me.
Customer Review: The original NATLAMP writers would have a field day
Summary: 4 Stars
The contributing writers of NATLAMP would have a field day with the quality of this disk. I can see the parody now; Sweat shop, Cheney like figure slashing the whip, dirt munching troglodytes lining up to purchase the product that, though inferior in quality, is the best they could ever hope to expect according to the corporate scum that purveys the sub-standard gnosh to them.
And still... I'd buy it for my best friend. Where else can you hope to find the most insightful and raunchy screed of the era???
Thanks... It was a blast.
Customer Review: This is NOT a complete collection
Summary: 2 Stars
I gave it two stars only because of what actually WAS there. It was nice to be able to see these again without spending a month browsing auction sites. Otherwise I'd go one star or less.
This collection must have been pulled from someones basement. Many issues are missing whole segments, and I think at least a couple of entire issues are missing.
The source material looks worn and faded, and the scans are awful. Pages are misaligned and often the last few lines of text are cut off or covered by the watermark. And the PDFs are locked so you can't correct any of this.
Also the disk doesn't play on all DVD drives. I can load it on my desktop but on my laptop the autorun hangs, and none of the folders will open.
If you are feeling nostalgic, go ahead and get this, but only on sale and don't go in hoping to see your favorite bits again. They probably won't be there.
Overall this is a good idea thrown together by people who don't give a damn.