slx wrote:Please, Laserschwert make a completely clean Zak McKracken poster.
The issue is to do with the lack of clean source material, there are no known versions of the original artwork without the logo at a good enough resolution (some people have attempted to re-paint the missing sections before with little luck)
The closest we have to an clean piece is this
I attempted to contact both David Fox and the owner of that webpage, but neither of them were able to provide anything else.
I attempted looking up the artists who drew some of the cover artwork for Sierra games and found only one name among all of them. Tom or Tim something. And I found no information on him anywhere contact or otherwise. I do know that Christy Marx's husband drew the artwork for Conquests of Camelot I believe. Does she actually sell the poster for that already from her website, though?
There was a little error in the Grim poster (Hector's shoulder was cut off in the upper right corner). I've updated the link in the opening post so it leads to a corrected version. Sorry!
There seems to be problem with the zip file of the full-size poster or at least with the jpeg inside. I've downloaded it several times--different computers, different browsers--and each time the jpeg isn't readable by anything. But maybe I'm just very unlucky somehow. Anybody else have this problem?
No, I don't think the program used is the issue. Have you tried testing/extracting yourself? I mean, just the updated one because the original I had no problem with. I only get a zero-byte file when I extract and the command-line error I get reads:
7-Zip [64] 9.13 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-04-15
p7zip Version 9.13 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)
I've tried this with different programs (all supporting 7zip) on two computers (one 64-bit, the other 32-bit) and three operating systems and haven't encountered anything similar with any other compressed file that I can recall, so it makes me suspect that zip file.
For comparison I downloaded the files for MI1 and MI2. Both extracted just fine so I suppose that also seems to point a finger at the new GF zip.
