Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware

[LoadWB]

I wrote a Firefox search plug-in for BBoAH last year-ish.  I don't think it was ever accepted by Mozilla :-(  I wonder if it will work if I update it for the new site...

One thing I have already noticed is a LOT of the pages, while primarily English, contain a LOT of German.

[LoadWB]

That's a great OSS response: "If you don't like it, submit a patch yourself."

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.

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.

[LoadWB]

Here is what I found without digging much deeper:

Go to the English site, click on "Recent Updates."  It shows up with German in the page.  Click on any link and you'll see a page with mixed English and German.

In my case I chose the AdIDE40, and this is the text from the bottom:

Provides a 3.5" IDE Connector which connects into the 68000 socket in A500, A1000 and A2000 series machines. The card must be fitted underneath any accelerator which also occupies the CPU socket. Please note that the card may not work if you have an accelerator in the A2000 CPU Fast Slot. It also contains an autoboot ROM, however there have been reports that this board does not like many Western Digital and IBM Hard Disks.

Einsendungen zu dieser Seite von:
Mats Magnusson, Yvan Van Mullem

Einem link gefolgt? Hier gehts zur Hauptseite

Hope that helps.

[LoadWB]

Thanks, Andreas.  I'll make sure to let you know of other problems if/when I find them.  As was said here as well, we are all hoping to see this continue on in the spirit under which Ian created and maintained it.