Two changes to the site, both for people who don’t read Spanish: Palimbit now has an English version, and the BluMach machine pages can be browsed here, without downloading the program, in five languages.
The site in English
The globe in the header switches between Spanish and English. The main pages are translated: the home page, BluMach, Downloads and About.
The Labbook will take longer. Older notes stay in Spanish, and new ones, like this one, will also have an English version. If you open a note that hasn’t been translated yet, you’ll land on the Spanish original, and the link tells you so beforehand.
The translations are machine-made, but I review them before publishing. Something may still slip through; if you spot a mistake, let me know.
The machine pages
Machines holds the BluMach catalogue pages, the same ones the application shows: 32 machines, each with its history, its hardware, its emulation status and the sources the information comes from. Those with a freely licensed photo show it with its author.
The list can be filtered by manufacturer, by status (validated, partial or experimental) and by what BluMach did with each machine: whether I implemented it from scratch or it already existed in 86Box and I improved it. There is also a search box for models, aliases and components.
The pages are available in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. In French, Italian and Portuguese only the machine pages exist; the menu leads to the English pages. Since many of the machines are Olivettis, I wanted them to be readable in Italian.
The machine page translations are machine-made. I have gone over them several times with different tools, looking for overly literal phrasing, context errors and details that didn’t match from one page to another, but no native speaker has reviewed them. Each translated page says so at the bottom, with a link to report mistakes. There is one limitation I already know about: some values in the hardware table are still in English in every language.
The pages are updated with each BluMach release. A machine appears on the site when it appears in the application’s catalogue; the ones I’m still researching stay out until their page is ready.
If you know any of these machines and something doesn’t look right, or you have documentation that could help, get in touch.