Amiga Future takes over the Big Book of Amiga Hardware

[AndreasM]

>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....

[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.

[AndreasM]

ohh, nice bug.

we fix it

thx

[Zac67]

A big hand for Ian - he's done a tremendous job for the past years! BBoAH is the compendium on Amiga hardware: accurate, detailed, but not overdone.

I wish the new maintainers all the best to follow up on him. Please get a native speaker to check up on the English texts - 'Denglish' wouldn't really fit to the quality Ian has treated us with all these years. I'm not a native of course, but I'd be willing to volunteer if nobody else wants to. :inquisitive:  ;-)

[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.

[Supimajo]

Hi all,

this is Mario Misic, the maintainer of the old german mirror.
I'm responsible for maintaining the BBoAH now.
I'd like to say some words to you.

First, i want to say a big thank you to everyone, who finds a bug and let me know.

I know, that there are still some language bugs.
This was because of the structure of the database, the BBoAH is running on.
We changed most of the language related scripts to present the BBoAH in your prefered language.
Some little changes have to be done at this time and we are working on it.

I want you all to stand by, until the database was filled with the needed fields and also new needed scripts where written too.
Until this work ist done, a little bit of "denglish" is unavoidably  :-(

Known bugs:
-Recent Updates
 FIXED (completely english now)

-Updates RSS Feed
 A new script have to be written to generate a  language specific feed

-Site FAQ
 only in german at this time

-Submissions
 FIXED (completely english now)

-Page Footers
 FIXED (followed a link now in german and in  english)

- Category headers
 Catergory headers within the main frame wehere displayed in german at this time.
New scripts have to be written.

- Hardware page header
 FIXED (Connection now prints CONNECTION and not ANSCHLUSS)


Our most important goal is, to keep the BBoAH running in future and provide it with more features, such as additional database requests (Browse by contributor e.g).

I thank you for your patience!

Regards,

Mario Misic