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Amigakit Hardware => A600GS & A1200NG => Topic started by: amigakit on August 05, 2025, 10:42:50 PM
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INTRODUCING AMIBROWSER MODERN WEB BROWSING FOR THE A1200 NG & A600 GS
Read the News Release here (https://www.a600gs.com/news/News_Release_AmiBrowser.pdf)
Cardiff, 6th August 2025
After many user requests, a new modern web browser has been developed by Amiga Kit. This new browser runs on AmiBench (https://wiki.amiga.org/amibench) and offers the most advanced Classic browsing experience to date.
AmiBrowser is an HTML 5 capable web browser built for 68K with Zune/MUI. It uses ARM libraries to power the native rendering of the web pages.
Matthew Leaman, Managing Director of AmigaKit Ltd remarked: “We are pleased that after many weeks of development work we can shortly offer this ground breaking application for the A600 GS and the A1200 NG user base. This has been the most requested application and we are excited to continue our commitment to delivering regular product updates.”
The A600 GS and the A1200 NG computer systems are now available to purchase from AmigaKit.com
Additional Information about the A600 GS and the A1200 NG can be found on these websites:
A600GS: www.a600gs.com (https://www.a600gs.com)
The A1200 NG: www.a1200.com/ng (https://www.a1200.com/ng)
(https://wiki.amiga.org/images/thumb/b/b0/AmiBrowser.png/600px-AmiBrowser.png) (https://wiki.amiga.org/images/b/b0/AmiBrowser.png)
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When will it be available as an update 8) ?
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First release will be soon. Just a few things to finish off.
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Eagerly awaiting the release for this. Are there any other updates being rolled out with the next release?
Out of interest, what's that browser based on, is it an AROS bit of kit?
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As this is 6 weeks of intense development, there hasn’t been any time for other updates. This project was large enough.
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Makes sense! I guess there's a to-do list of sorts for those smaller improvements?
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First impressions of AmiBrowser by Proteque CBN on his A600GS (https://www.a600gs.com):
https://youtu.be/j4YyEZAIj64
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Any plans to do a PiStorm/Pi version? Possible to sell as a stand alone product perhaps?
Something I would be definitely be interested in purchasing if it came to market.
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Just downloaded and tested the browser and am really impressed.
It plays You Tube videos without too much framedrop but I would have really passed out in shock had it played I-Player or any other videos from BBC's website. It doesn't, but I don't intend on using my A600GS for that purpose 😁
Aside from that what a fantastic piece of software and thanks to everyone involved for their hard work. I appreciate it.
Look forward to updates on the downloading files sometime soon.
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Very good ! But cannot download for example files from aminet, i think you have to add a download feature,
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Very good ! But cannot download for example files from aminet, i think you have to add a download feature,
Yes, it's stated in the Update Text ....
AmiBrowser is at pre-release status. File downloading and ASL Requesters have not yet been added.
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Yes, it's stated in the Update Text ....
Was about to post this, :).
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Thank you both!
I have a question, can you sell in amigakit shop a600gs parts like original case, SD motherboards? this could be interesting for future upgrade.
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Thank you both!
I have a question, can you sell in amigakit shop a600gs parts like original case, SD motherboards? this could be interesting for future upgrade.
Not something thats been thought about as yet.
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Is there more information about how the browser works? Looking on various browser ID sites, it seems to suggest it's a Chrome based (138.0.0.0) browser running atop Arm based Linux with X11.
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Is there more information about how the browser works? Looking on various browser ID sites, it seems to suggest it's a Chrome based (138.0.0.0) browser running atop Arm based Linux with X11.
As far as I can see it´s using CEF (Chromium Embedded) on Linux side, so it catches Events on Amiga side, sends it via ARM library to Linux and the Linux side sends the rendered Page back to Amiga ...
Guess in reality it´s a bit more complex but I think that´s the base mechanism :)
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OSNews publishes article about the new AmiBrowser for the A1200 NG and A600 GS:
https://www.osnews.com/story/143070/amibrowser-the-chromium-engine-running-on-a-linux-host-talking-to-a-68k-amiga-application/
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I must say I am impressed with the speed of the browser and compatibility with my favorite pages & youtube! :o It seems to run snappier than Wayfarer on my MorphOS G5. Not magnitudes snappier, but noticeably nonetheless. I would not have expected that. Guess that's working in-browser JavascripJIT in Amibrowser vs. no JIT on Wayfarer... Youtube video playback itself is faster on my G5 though.
I know current Amibrowser is just a preview, but I noticed a few things not working or not yet implemented:
- PageUp/PageDown for scrolling text do not work.
- No Tabs (yet?)
- No Fullscreen mode (yet?)
- No in-browser pull down menues with right- or middle-klick (yet?)
- No Preferences (yet?)
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Funny thing years ago Jaca mentioned that offloading like Amibrowser was going to be the future of Wayfarer and many were complaining that they wanted it natively handled.
Perhaps he was ahead his time? :)
Always nice to see new browsers and options.
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AmiBrowser is a modern browser for the A1200 NG (http://www.a1200.com/ng) and A600 GS (http://www.a600gs.com). Today our developer added downloading functions:
https://youtu.be/ubdD60O36AA (https://youtu.be/ubdD60O36AA)
A user update will be coming later this week
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I know current Amibrowser is just a preview, but I noticed a few things not working or not yet implemented:
There is a text preferences file at least for the favorites button bar, not sure if this is the way forward.
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I noticed a problem with AmiBrowser when a german keymap is used.
It seems key combinations where CTRL or ALT is needed are filtered out in the AmiBrowser window. For the '@' character with german keymap I need to press 'ALT GR' + 'Q' on my german keyboard. This works in the shell, in Redit, in Finalwriter, etc. but not in the AmiBrowser window. Which is rather inconvenient as often email adresses are used as user names on various sites. :'(
An easy workaround would be to just use American/British keymap and get the '@' via 'SHIFT' + 'ä' on german keyboards. But as I was 'smart' enough to use german umlauts like 'ß' in various passwords I need the german keymap for that reason... ;)
Is there a chance this can be fixed in the upcoming versions?
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I noticed a problem with AmiBrowser when a german keymap is used.
It seems key combinations where CTRL or ALT is needed are filtered out in the AmiBrowser window. For the '@' character with german keymap I need to press 'ALT GR' + 'Q' on my german keyboard. This works in the shell, in Redit, in Finalwriter, etc. but not in the AmiBrowser window. Which is rather inconvenient as often email adresses are used as user names on various sites. :'(
An easy workaround would be to just use American/British keymap and get the '@' via 'SHIFT' + 'ä' on german keyboards. But as I was 'smart' enough to use german umlauts like 'ß' in various passwords I need the german keymap for that reason... ;)
Is there a chance this can be fixed in the upcoming versions?
I will look into it.
Do you have the german keymap set at A600GS/A1200NG level or at AmiBench level?
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I will look into it.
Do you have the german keymap set at A600GS/A1200NG level or at AmiBench level?
Tnanks!
Both. At A600GS level it's German + German No Dead Keys and at AmiBench level also German keymap.
With this setting German umlauts and key kombinations work as expected on Amibench. In AmiBrowser I do get umlauts like 'ö', 'ä', 'ß' where no key kombination is needed. But as soon I additionally need ALT or CTRL like for '@' it does not work.
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I haven't had time to dig into the code to see why yet, here in a shell 'ALT-s' produces 'ß' , but not in AmiBrowser.
Curiously though 'Alt-k' followed by 'u' gives 'ü' both in shall and amibrowser