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Looking out for a group/person who has an unused or old diskmag engine they are willing to donate to a good home. PC windows based would be ideal, however Amiga AGA work would be nice too.

If you wish to go private: darkus@poiserecords.com

Why don't you participate in JP on Amiga or PAiN on PC instead!?

Anyway:You could think about using the engine with which Hugi is running, that one is for free and truely not bad!

Yeti's got a point there. Why write your own diskmag engine if there are decent web browsers out there that can do everything you'd possibly want in a good diskmag reader.

hmm.. not really with html or html+js.
flashmags could be a hit tho! ?

mnemonix: he's not talking about writing his own engine.

And btw, webmags sucks, they simply don't stand the test of time. I can still read diskmags from '95 but most of the articles which were published online back then are gone by now.

sparcus: ever heard of the wayback machine?

pdf.

i guess the chosen format depends alot on your target audience.

Sparcus, you can (also) offer a downloadable zip with the articles and images just to please the archivers out there :)

I don't think Flash is really needed. It's about offering (quality) content in an accessible manner, not about eye candy fests. I think a properly designed xhtml+css layout would do just fine.

i seen a couple flash fanzines, they werent bad, but mostly were newmedia design ppl involved in them.. and it was quite annoying not to have direct links to an article available online.. :)

I agree with mnemonix here - I don't think a PROPER css/dhtml mag has been done. We've seen some killer javascript demos, and some freaking excellent conversions of old Amiga demos in dhtml - this could be done in an offline diskmag.

You could use the khtml or gecko engines as a back end, tie in bass.dll, and so on.

You could even compress the mag and decompress on the fly; a certain demo by a certain gasman has lzh decompression in it (:

No reason NOT to code your own, no reason NOT to go this way. Figure out what you want to do and go for it.

> pdf.

Bleurgh.
One of the beautiful feature of a DiskMag is the Engine.

A PDF is an ugly text files.
With images ok,but it remains a static text file.

i'm glad you grasp the concept of pdf-files, orb. you REALLY nailed it, way to go.

ugly text files

the media is the message!!22!#¤42"

or the medium or whatever.. yes.,

Bullshit. The one and only way is writing your stuff on paper and take pictures of it, to be delivered as GIF files.
I still have some pages of PS diary from his 1999 (?) party journey and they are sill readable, entertaining and multiplatform.

dixan and ps, is that diary available for download? party reports rulez!!! (if you know spanish, you can read the big euskal party 5 report from trashcan 4 spanish)

dixan: remember the pmp party report? :)

Actually dixan I also like to do that. Words on paper written with various means, then b+w scanned.

ps: ofcourse I know the wayback machine :-)

I also know that it doesn't go back to '95 (I picked that year on purpose ;-) And also, it is far from complete, the pages you need the most always seem to be unarchived :-(

i have no idea why i logged in or even why i opened this fucking lame ass topic.

dixan: hmm.. is that the boozembly 2000 notebook scans you're talking about?