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Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« on: September 18, 2006, 12:59:20 AM »
Because of personal reasons, Ian Chapman, the founder of the Big Book of Amiga Hardware, has given his seven years old compedium in new hands.

Amiga Future is proud to announce to become the new maintainer of the BBoAH. The compendium will be the same as known, but only a few optical adjustments.

In future, the BBoAH will further exist in two languages - english and german.

Unfortunately, Ian Chapman is not able to free the well known URL "http://Amiga-hardware.com" for the BBoAH in the Future. Because of this, the BBoAH ONLY can be reach at http://hardware.amigafuture.de. Please update your bookmarks!

The Amiga Future team also will work on, to open the (licensed) driver downloads page again, which have to be closed since end last year.

NOTICE: For submissions only use the following Email: hardware@amigafuture.de

About Ian:

After nearly 8 years of running the Big Book of Amiga Hardware, I've decided it's time for me to retire from maintaining the site. The reasons are many and varied, but personal. The project started in January 1999 and since then has grown to be what it is today. This wouldn't have been possible without the hundreds of contributors that took their time to help out, many of who sent hundreds of photographs over the years.

Effective from today, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware will be officially maintained by 'Amiga Future' in conjunction with Mario Misic. Mario has maintained the German mirror for several years. They will continue to maintain the site in a similar style with some modifications but will hopefully be able to give the project more time than I could.  In addition they hope to translate the entire site into German. Please give them your support.

The new official page is http://hardware.amigafuture.de as I am unable (for practical reasons) to transfer the ownership of the domain. Please note, that this site (http://www.amiga-hardware.com) will still remain available on the web but will not be updated. All submissions should now be sent to the email address hardware@amigafuture.de. Thanks again to everybody who has helped out.


"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Ian.

Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org
 

Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Re: Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2006, 03:56:16 PM »
BBoAH is in german and english
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org
 

Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Re: Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2006, 07:38:04 PM »
>One thing I have already noticed is a LOT of the pages, while primarily English, contain a LOT of German.

when you like, you can translate all pages to english :) we are happy for every helping hands :)
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org
 

Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Re: Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2006, 09:19:42 PM »
>Well, I have to agree... try not to mix German and English on the pages that are supposed to be in English, it doesn't look good.

where we mix german and english?
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org
 

Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Re: Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2006, 09:25:35 AM »
>That's a great OSS response: "If you don't like it, submit a patch yourself."

sure :)

>Sorry, I don't speak German well enough to translate. And even if I did, it's not my responsibility to do so. Even so, I seem to recall that the original site WAS in English. Check the logs, you'll see that I have contributed quite a bit, so I have put in my time for this wonderful and free resource and feel that I have a position in this.

the original BBoAH page was in english and the new BBoAH page IS in english, too. dont really understand your problem!!!

> While the world itself speaks many languages, not all people individually speak many languages. Web developers who want to provide service to the world would do well to remember this. Otherwise, you run the risk of alienating parts of your user- and/or fan-base.

please say us what is your problem! we DONT change the language from the BBoAH....
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org
 

Offline AndreasMTopic starter

Re: Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2006, 06:29:56 PM »
ohh, nice bug.

we fix it

thx
Andreas Magerl
APC&TCP - Home of Amiga Future
Publisher for Amiga Software, Merchandising and many more.

http://www.apc-tcp.de
https://www.amigafuture.de
https://www.amigashop.org