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Re: Internet web browser....
« on: June 28, 2008, 04:45:53 PM »
@Malakie

I hope you received some answers to your original question.

Anyways ... as you may have guessed by now, your choices depend on what Amiga environment you are running.  For classic Amiga with no PPC, you are looking at AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager.  Back in the day, I used AWeb on my Amiga 2000HD over a 19.2 Kbps dialup ppp connection to my ISP.  Needless to say, it was very slow.  I had my browser set to "don't load" images. Aweb would place a blue square (image link?) where the image would normally be and I could click on the square if I really wanted to see a particular image.  My machine had a 68000 CPU (no accelerator card), so the images were quite grainy.

On my MicroA1 running OS4, I use AWebPPC, IBrowse and OWB.  OWB has improved to the point where I use it most, but I still use IBrowse for certain sites and AWeb for certain sites.

Not sure for emulated amiga running on a pc.  Three x86 pc's at home here, but no amiga emulator running on any of them.  I would probably try IBrowse or AWeb (maybe both).

(Of course, for an emulated amiga running on a pc, there is always the alternative of using the browsers available for the "host" operating system ... it all depends on what you want to do.  If you like firefox or IE better ... go for it.  It is your machine and your fun that is at stake, and noone else has the right to say you are wrong.)

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Re: Internet web browser....
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2008, 10:24:55 PM »
Hi all,

Just trying out a new version of OWB, Origyn Web Browser version 2.5 installed about 20 minutes ago.  So far seems ok on my MicroA1.  Posting with it now.

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Re: Internet web browser....
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2008, 02:37:03 AM »
OWB can be downloaded from http://strohmayer.org/ which might be off the air at the moment.

The main support site seems to be www.amigans.net where the author converses with several users.  There are also some threads on www.amigaworld.net

The latest version, OWB 2.5 is not a standalone product yet, so some files are required from an earlier version.  The readme file gives details as to which files are required.  They are called sobjects.  OWB 2.5 will not run without them.

If I recall correctly, OWB 2.5 is PPC only.  Not sure how well it operates on a classic Amiga with PPC but it seems to work fine here on my MicroA1.

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Re: Internet web browser....
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2008, 12:24:44 AM »
Origyn Web Browser (OWB) is changing fast.  This is OWB 2.6.  Looking good so far.

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Re: Internet web browser....
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 03:24:51 PM »
First post with OWB 2.7. :-D

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