Big Book of Amiga Hardware - new site and domain

[bitman]

The Big Book of Amiga Hardware (BBoAH) is back online again on a new domain:  

www.bigbookofamigahardware.com

The original site www.amiga-hardware.com, created and maintained by Ian Chapman is still online, but has not been updated since 2006 and will only continue to exist as long as Ian wants - but it will NOT be updated anymore. A link to the new BBoAH will be placed at the old site very soon.

All data and pictures has been exported to the new home of BBoAH and the site has been reprogrammed from scratch. A few new features is planned and the layout will also be updated soon (any CSS ninjas who volunteers?).

All emails with updates to BBoAH sendt to Ian from contributors from all over the world, has been forwarded to me and will be added to the database in the near future - a few items has already  been
added/updated. If you have an item that should be added, please contact me.

Hopefully the community will support the new BBoAH, so we can make the database even more complete. Thanks to Ian for his willingness to pass on he's work and great effort in creating the original BBoAH.

regards, bitman
www.bigbookofamigahardware.com
Probably the largest Amiga hardware reference on the net, with more than 1800 items listed.

[bitman]

I'm in the process of updating the content, and adding hardware - so if you have anything not listed yet, please send a description together with pictures to the email-address mentioned on the site.

[bitman]

Great. Bad pics is better than no pics.

Nice!  I'll be sending some things your way!

Just wish I had better pics

[bitman]

It's til there, but last updated 3 years ago...

What about http://www.bboah.com/ ??

[bitman]

We are talking about bboah.com, which is in english - I don't read german and to my knowledge bboah.de is in german (but it is updated).

I've tried to get in contact with the other mirror - no luck yet. Who said the 6 years of work is beeing ignored?

You have been told two days ago that the German version of their site (bboah.de) is still actively supported and has seen tons of updates in the last 6 years.

[bitman]

But pretending you didn't know about their efforts (like you did in that AW thread) or continuing to pretend that their effort is dead? That's just strange.

Read carefully before shooting at people. The news item here at A.rog was posted: 02-25-2013, 04:09 PM                                                        

You noticed me at aw.net that the german version still was active, at: 26-Feb-2013 13:39:14

A.org has just be slow at approving my news item.

[bitman]

Yes, English section of bboah.de is from 2010. bboah.com is from 2010.
German version is up2date, which is nice. All data that I collect are free for the germans to use. And I hope to get permission to incoorporate the german updates in the new english version aswell.

Again, Ian thougth that the english version was dead, and let me make a mirror (me not being aware of the german version when i contacted Ian, and I wasn't told it by Ian that it existed)

bitman has a point though I'm afraid. http://bboah.de shows all menus and default texts in german. Granted there is a dropdown to switch individual pages to english, but it assumes  you know.

Personally, I dont care - read either - but I agree for english only people the german site is not really user-friendly/inviting :/

On the other hand... so sad to see:
- Ian holding on to the original domain without updates
- German site not having a better way of allowing english updates
- bitman opening another site
- http://amiga.resource.cx/ also being around

talk about duplicating effort ... guys (gals?) .. WORK TOGETHER !

Tom UK

[bitman]

"I know they're still actively updating, if only the German mirror. I'm trying to contact them".

You're right about that. Some answers tend to be too short .

Regarding contact with the guys at bboah.de would be nice. They have some data I'm missing, and I'm digging up a lot of great items atm.

All in all, it would have been nice to know that an active mirror existed - but since Ian didn't link to it, knowbody had a chance to know - I didn't know about it's existence until a few days ago (monday or so).

[bitman]

I've tried to get in contact with BBOAH.de guys for the last week. To me it looks like bboah.com only had minor updates since setup (from what I can see, but I have not been through alle their content).

All content submitted to Ian to date, has been forwarded to me and is beeing added. I still hope to get in contact with bboah.com.

But it would ne great to have the updates from the german version incorporated in the english - unfortunately my german s****.

Since I setup the new english mirror, I have been contacted from a lot of users, who has some interesting content.

I suggest working with the bboah.de guys to merge the content of the 2 sites so that we have active English and German mirrors.

[bitman]

Sounds good.

In this thread (German) "novamann" acknowledges that he got your mails, I assume he'll get back to you. If not, let me know.

[bitman]

A small forum has now been added to the site - hopefully that makes it easier to correct/ enhance the articles in the database.