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Offline Iggy

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« on: January 27, 2011, 04:47:49 AM »
Hey Franko,
Now that I've found out that Amiga 1200s can be expanded with 48Mhz '030s and even 80Mhz '060 I'm suddenly interested in buying some retro hardware.
What web browsers work on Amigas. I've gotten spoiled by OWB, but I can adapt to something cruder.

BTW - Nice to have you back.
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 05:49:36 AM »
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As far as browsers for classic amigas go, they're functional, but definately considerable room for improvement. The 3 main options Id suggest are probably IBrowse2.4, Aweb, and Voyager. Apart from that there's also Netsurf, which while a little quirky works reasonably well, although needs a gfx card (sdl based). Additionally there's a port of OWB, but not only is it sdl based, but its even slower than netsurf, and is probably unusable on anything but an emulated 68k cpu. That said, and despite being rough around the edges I find it's quite useful on my amithlon box and is very fast once the pages have fully loaded.
An indirect route is to use on the 68k mac os browsers inside shapeshifter or similar. Theyre obviously pretty outdated as well, but do offer a little bit more modern a browsing experience in terms of page rendering. Netsurf and iCab are probably the 2 best choices for that route.

How do you think OWB would work on a 48Mhz '030 or a 50 to 80Mhz '060.?
"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

"God was never on your side" - Lemmy

Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"