Has anyone ever tried this out? (web browsing on A500)

[sim085]

Hi,

While trying to see what I can do next with my A500+ I came across this article:
http://peta.mobilserver.cz/amiga/

In this "How To" the author states that he was able to browse the Internet on an A500 without any accelerator card connected to it. I tried to follow through the article but could not find some of the software; such as Mosaic_1.2_AmiTCP.lha. Additionall and mui31usr.lha (Magic User Interface). I did find mui38usr.lha but this can not be installed - gives me an error. I also found the source for Mosaic2.0beta but have no clue how to compile it.

Does anyone know from where I can get these two packages? I do not think they are comercial if they once where on AmiNet! or?

Regards,
Sim085

[sim085]

AWeb works for browsing on my A500, but I had to upgrade it to AmigaOS 3.1 first.  :-)  I have a ROM switcher in it so I can boot either AmigaOS 1.3 or 3.1.

Call me stupid, but I really liked the way Mosaic rendered that yahoo! page. It feels much more Amiga like ... I already have Workbench 3.1 installed so using AWeb would not be a problem.

[sim085]

where did you downloaded it?

Are you talking about AWeb or Mosaic? At some point in time Mosaic was available on AmiNet because I found plenty of links on the web pointing there. However for some reason or another is must have been removed

I did find the source but do not know how I could compile it.

[sim085]

I found Mosaic_1.2_AmiTCP.lha from here:
http://asgard.actrix.co.nz/historical/amiga/comm/net/Mosaic_1.2_AmiTCP.lha

lucky find

[sim085]

So from what I can understand, for the 68000 machines there are IBrowser 1.22, AWeb II, AMosaic and ALynx.

I found it hard to understand what to download from AWeb II website. I'll sww what is available for IBrowser.

[sim085]

The patch to bring IBrowse 1.1x-1.2x to 1.22 (along with some SSL goodies and ARexx documentation) is on AFCD36 in :-Websites-/HiSOFT/amiga/downloads/

The patches to bring IBrowse 1.0x to 1.12a are on AFCD23 in :+Look_here_1st!+/AF_on_the_web/Websites/Omnipresence/support/

AMosaic is disatrously obsolete and probably not worthwhile even for a 68000 machine - historical interest only.

For AWeb, you need the 3.5.09 main archive. Extract it, then copy the contents of the 68000 archive on top of it.

ALynx is a good candidate for 68000 machines, but would benefit from a cleaner port and a more up-to-date codebase.

Are the contents of AFCD23 and AFCD36 available on the net? or I would need to have th original CDs? Also is IBrowser 1.0 still a comercial product? or?