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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.
added on the 2005-10-23 12:51:36 by darkus darkus
If you wish to go private: darkus@poiserecords.com
added on the 2005-10-23 12:53:09 by darkus darkus
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!
added on the 2005-10-23 21:30:04 by ghandy ghandy
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.
added on the 2005-10-23 22:56:52 by bruce bruce
hmm.. not really with html or html+js.
flashmags could be a hit tho! ?
added on the 2005-10-23 23:14:19 by whizzter whizzter
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.
added on the 2005-10-24 00:28:51 by sparcus sparcus
sparcus: ever heard of the wayback machine?
added on the 2005-10-24 00:55:59 by psenough psenough
pdf.
added on the 2005-10-24 00:58:41 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
i guess the chosen format depends alot on your target audience.
added on the 2005-10-24 01:10:03 by psenough psenough
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.
added on the 2005-10-24 01:27:05 by bruce bruce
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.. :)
added on the 2005-10-24 01:37:47 by psenough psenough
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.
added on the 2005-10-24 11:24:34 by orb orb
i'm glad you grasp the concept of pdf-files, orb. you REALLY nailed it, way to go.
added on the 2005-10-24 13:15:24 by kusma kusma
the media is the message!!22!#¤42"
added on the 2005-10-24 15:24:58 by violator violator
or the medium or whatever.. yes.,
added on the 2005-10-24 15:36:33 by violator violator
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.
added on the 2005-10-24 19:48:02 by dixan dixan
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)
added on the 2005-10-24 19:53:00 by winden winden
dixan: remember the pmp party report? :)
added on the 2005-10-24 23:01:34 by bruce bruce
Actually dixan I also like to do that. Words on paper written with various means, then b+w scanned.
added on the 2005-10-24 23:14:15 by _-_-__ _-_-__
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 :-(
added on the 2005-10-25 00:35:18 by sparcus sparcus
i have no idea why i logged in or even why i opened this fucking lame ass topic.
added on the 2005-10-25 01:03:34 by Hatikvah Hatikvah
dixan: hmm.. is that the boozembly 2000 notebook scans you're talking about?
added on the 2005-10-25 01:51:35 by psenough psenough

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