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TroyWilkins · 05 August 2017, 04:55

As some may know, I've been working on a web site I've called The Amiga Museum. I still have much to add to it, so consider it a public alpha version.

I've been learning a lot while compiling the information, and I'm very thankful to a person who has been making extensive use of the 'Contact us' page in order to send me information. I have attempted to reply to them via the email address they have used, but I have not got a response, so I'm hoping that they'll see this.

I have found it difficult to get accurate information, and a secondary challenge has been in how to summarize what is often rather technical information in a way that is accessible to non-technical people.

One example is this: maximum resolution. Sure, the OCS systems could do low res and high res, with or without interlace, with or without overscan. But horizontal overscan can eat into the DMA for sprites, so as more overscan is used, less sprites are available. Also, once ECS came along, superhighres was available, with or without interlace. Colour depth also being a minefield, I mean sure there is EHB and HAM, and the more traditional bitmap modes, but then as we know, there is the complication of being able to switch colour palettes and even screen modes. And that's if we're limiting to standard PAL 50Hz and NTSC 60Hz screens. So how can I write up the extraordinary flexibility without it being an overload of technical information that will make most people just close the web site?

And then we have sound output, once again so flexible it can be difficult to write up, and also dependant on the display mode...

If anyone would like to have a look, what I've got so far is at http://theamigamuseum.com but as I've said, there is still a lot more work for me to do, so some pages still have little to no information, and some need to be updated.

Also, do we have any people good with Wordpress here, and/or with CSS? I want to change the museum navigation so that you can expand and collapse the various sections such as hardware, software, timeline, amiga models, and I'd like to also be able to have the user able to select a different theme, so they can see it in it's current 1.x scheme, but also have a 2.x and magicwb scheme selectable.

BTW, Does anyone have any expertise with Wordpress/CSS?

Also, I'd really appreciate any and all information and feedback.

05 August 2017, 04:55	#22
TroyWilkins Registered User Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 548	As some may know, I've been working on a web site I've called The Amiga Museum. I still have much to add to it, so consider it a public alpha version. I've been learning a lot while compiling the information, and I'm very thankful to a person who has been making extensive use of the 'Contact us' page in order to send me information. I have attempted to reply to them via the email address they have used, but I have not got a response, so I'm hoping that they'll see this. I have found it difficult to get accurate information, and a secondary challenge has been in how to summarize what is often rather technical information in a way that is accessible to non-technical people. One example is this: maximum resolution. Sure, the OCS systems could do low res and high res, with or without interlace, with or without overscan. But horizontal overscan can eat into the DMA for sprites, so as more overscan is used, less sprites are available. Also, once ECS came along, superhighres was available, with or without interlace. Colour depth also being a minefield, I mean sure there is EHB and HAM, and the more traditional bitmap modes, but then as we know, there is the complication of being able to switch colour palettes and even screen modes. And that's if we're limiting to standard PAL 50Hz and NTSC 60Hz screens. So how can I write up the extraordinary flexibility without it being an overload of technical information that will make most people just close the web site? And then we have sound output, once again so flexible it can be difficult to write up, and also dependant on the display mode... If anyone would like to have a look, what I've got so far is at http://theamigamuseum.com but as I've said, there is still a lot more work for me to do, so some pages still have little to no information, and some need to be updated. Also, do we have any people good with Wordpress here, and/or with CSS? I want to change the museum navigation so that you can expand and collapse the various sections such as hardware, software, timeline, amiga models, and I'd like to also be able to have the user able to select a different theme, so they can see it in it's current 1.x scheme, but also have a 2.x and magicwb scheme selectable. BTW, Does anyone have any expertise with Wordpress/CSS? Also, I'd really appreciate any and all information and feedback. Last edited by prowler; 05 August 2017 at 22:09. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged.