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Title: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Johan Samuelsson on November 28, 2003, 01:19:47 AM
Hi all!

It was a very long time ago since we saw an
update to Voyager. Is it discontinued?
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Targhan on November 28, 2003, 01:49:41 AM
:lol:

This topic was just covered again on the Voyager M/L!  No, Voyager is not dead, it's just in a development cycle.  I haven't heard when a new version will be available, but I know they are working on it ;-)
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: mantisspider on November 28, 2003, 03:00:50 AM
I hear that the Amiga has a Flash player, has anyone used this, what version of flash can it play?

is there a shockwave player?

ta
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: x56h34 on November 28, 2003, 03:42:00 AM
I use Voyager on my A4000 setup and it works great. It is far from
perfection, however very stable if you have a GFX card. When I try it
on my desktop A1200 with 060 without GFX card, severe crashes occur.
Same thing happened on A4000 when I tried to run it under AGA. All
from my personal experience, and I'm not sure if it's like that with
others.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Karlos on November 28, 2003, 06:32:15 AM
x56h34

When using AGA, do you use any kind of 'image data in fast ram' patch, such as FBlit?

The old 2Mb chip thing is not good for graphically intensive pages. Patches like FBlit really do help out AGA systems in more ways than just speeding them up..
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: xeron on November 28, 2003, 11:25:28 AM
@x56h34

Weird. I've been a registered user of Voyager for years. It is very unstable for me. It was unstable on my CV64/3D, it is unstable on my Voodoo. I only ever use it to test that my sites work in it, and I don't leave it running for long because I don't want a visit from Mr. Guru.

I find IBrowse and AWeb to be many, many times more stable than Voyager.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: amigarules2k on November 28, 2003, 11:35:00 AM
I cannot complain about voyager, in fact i found to be the most stable version of any amiga brwoser. It never crashed and usually i surf alot on the internet. I dunno, i think it depends on the configuration, but yet it was also unstable on AGA on my a1200 first, but after installing FBlit, it worked far more better.

Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: lempkee on November 28, 2003, 11:37:39 AM
voyager is dead on 68k, morphos versions is still in development.

reason: the team doesnt have an amiga anymore (yes its weird...i belived everyone beeing a fan of pegasos/mos claimed it to be Amiga...)

i wont encourage anyone to stop regging or whatever but i encourage everyone to email them and tell them you want a 68k update.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Doraemon on November 28, 2003, 12:25:37 PM
the morphos version its really more stable that the 68k version.

But I want too a 68k version for my classic amiga.........
Please do not fall the classic amiga scene.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: KennyR on November 28, 2003, 01:34:24 PM
Voyager was never stable for me. It wasn't stable on AGA, it wasn't stable on CGX, it isn't stable on a Pegasos.

And if development continues at the slow pace it's going (STILL no cut and paste, never mind CSS!), then they might as well not waste their time. I don't think I'll live long enough for it to be as usable as IBrowse.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Amiga1200PPC on November 28, 2003, 03:57:07 PM
I hope this Amizilla will be successful then.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: lempkee on November 28, 2003, 04:14:27 PM
kennyr: i agree with you totally...
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: x56h34 on November 28, 2003, 05:05:50 PM
@Karlos:

I don't use any patches on my A1200D/060/128MB/3.9-BB-2/AGA setup other than BlizKick. Could be that a module in it is anti Voyager, however I doubt it as similar modules are used also in my A4000 heavy-weight setup with Voodoo 3 and I've yet to find a single crash. Actually, exactly the same modules are used other than the card-reset/timing software fixes that BlizKick provides for A1200 specifically. I've noticed that AGA usage of Voyager would usually crash when I try to download a file. I'd get a Guru error of some sort.
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Karlos on November 28, 2003, 05:08:01 PM
@x56h34

I was suggesting that you should try FBlit, not implying it might be the cause of your problems :-)
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: itix on November 28, 2003, 05:39:54 PM
For completeness Voyager is rock stable on my Pegasos. On my A1200
with BVision it was nothing but a reboot tool.

What ever, nothing is better on Amiga than IBrowse :-)

Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: x56h34 on November 28, 2003, 05:49:49 PM
@Karlos:

Got ya. Any recommended Fblit settings for an A1200/060/AGA/OS3.9-BB2 setup?
Title: Re: Voyager - discontinued?
Post by: Karlos on November 28, 2003, 05:52:09 PM
I cant remember off the top of my head, but it does come with very good documentation. The default settings are generally good enough for most uses.

As it goes, I run it on my AGA only 1200D - it's so well done I don't even notice it's there really.