DFK Technology

Dennoflöckel Technology (known as DFK Technology) is a Switzerland-basedfree and open-source software and web framework and platform for the creation of multi-platform applications and video games. DFK Technology can also act as a game engine.

History (Work in Progress)
Miyuki Toshiro, an 18-year old Japanese college student and programmer met a Swiss programmer Josef Werner in University of Zürich in January 1992. When they get along with each other, both of them started to experiment with functions of Delta OS versions, including DX, along with its console counterparts - DeltaConsole and its successor DeltaConsole II (since they were fans of DeltaConsole). One of them was a simple application engine that could create very complex graphics. Many of their attempts to push the hardware and features used in Delta OS, DeltaDOS and DeltaConsole to their absolute limit were pretty much successful.

They have sent the experiments to HagsBurg Electronics. Tevan Hanamadski, the very main person behind Delta OS and DeltaConsole, also the current CEO of HagsBurg was suprised by the two's interesting workarounds. He replied that with a note, stating the offer for the two to be hired as programmers, as well as invitation to DeltaCON 1992 as guest to present their achievements. Mizuki and Josef at first refused the offer, since they were busy with university courses.

Their achievement later inspired the two into working on the framework toolkit, codenamed 'Karlsruher Äußerungen' in June 1992. The first prototypical version - v 0.00 was released on the internet, licensed with GNU GPL version 2 ot later, quickly gaining popularity in Zurich. The developers, who used Karlsruher were suprised at what it could do.

Version 0.99 was released on March 17 1995 for DeltaOS and DeltaConsole III. The first version of DFK Technology is fairly powerful, capable of creating very complex graphics if used as a game engine, as well as can be used to create several different types of software, ended up being very popular. The interest in the framework drew numerous developers to the website, as well as a large portion of the community. The community is so impressed by DFK being far ahead of its time that they added support for rival systems, for example Windows 9x, Windows CE, Windows NT and Mac OS, as well as original PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

The two later were approached by Tevan Hanamadski, he again offered Mizuki and Josef a job as programmers. Josef at first thought it wouldn't be well, Mizuki later convicted him to join him. They later accepted the offer and HagsBurg released v 1.00 of DFK Technology for several platforms.