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Title: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on February 01, 2003, 05:26:28 AM

The latest in the line of browsers from Opera Software ASA - version 7, pays homage to Commodore!

Click the 4th icon on the address toolbar to switch between User and Author mode then select Nostalgia from the associated dropdown!

To see a 64 colour GIF grab (42.5k) click here. (http://www.bouncingayatollah.co.uk/aorgimages/OperaAOcbm64.gif)

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: cecilia on February 01, 2003, 04:32:06 PM

i'm using 6.05 right now and it's the coolest browser i've EVER used. as soon as i can i want to upgrade! i wish there was an amiga version. altho i bought AWeb and am antisipating IBrowse.

the more - the merrier! :-D

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: Cluke on February 01, 2003, 07:59:28 PM

Hmm, cute!
This is reminiscent of the start of GTA:Vice City, which has a mock C64 style intro, pretending to load the program from tape (fitting in nicely with the 80s theme!)

(P.S. first post with IB2.3, nice to see the text input box finally wraps!)

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: Darth_X on February 01, 2003, 08:48:21 PM

I wonder how much it would cost them to port Opera to MorphOS?

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: Quixote on February 02, 2003, 04:34:35 AM

;-) Not exactly very useful, but fun anyway.  How well does Opera work as a browser otherwise?

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: KennyR on February 02, 2003, 06:34:39 PM

I see screen corruption in this screenshot...tse, Windows, eh?

Title: Re: CBM nostalgia in Opera 7
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on February 02, 2003, 08:49:46 PM

@Quixote
It is my favourite browser under Winbloat, very fast and small exe compared to NS7.01, nice features such as tabbed browsing, slim email client, popup blocker, very customisable cookie handling, oft-needed prefs in quick popup via F12, built-in Search bar (no need to constantly type in google address), page zoom  etc. etc. 6.05 seemed a bit iffy with things such as layers, v7 seems to handle all the sites I've been to thus far perfectly. The combination of speed, tabbed browsing and built-in Search bar make it a joy to use in my book.

@KennyR
Yeah, there is gfx munging in the Nostalgia mode as it seems to set up a fixed width display to emulate the old screen, if you run a screen mode exceeding this it gets munged in here - not like that in usual modes though :-)