Classic Amiga for Web Browsing

[commodorejohn]

I thought Netsurf requires 64MB and RTG in any case? And it recommends an 060? I'd try iBrowse or Voyager, instead.

I have an A1200 with a 50MHz 030 (before that, a 40MHz 030.) iBrowse is balky, especially with Javascript, but it's fairly solidly in the "usable" category. Voyager is better, but less featureful. I haven't tried ALynx as I couldn't get it to work, but I imagine that would be a lot more usable.

[commodorejohn]

Not to derail this thread, but, why haven't replacements for the A1200 *motherboard* been more popular historically?  The original motherboard has a slow bus, correct?  Why, then, haven't there been aftermarket replacement motherboards with broader busses, etc?  It seems like the aftermarket vendors are focusing on one part of the system rather than the whole.  Is it because of kickstart and other chips are hard to relocate to a new board?

It's because the entire chipset is designed around that bus, and if you wanted to change that, you'd basically have to implement an entire new computer. Which is what projects like the SAM boards and NatAmi have done - but for those who can't afford a SAM, or want to stick with their 1200, it's a lot more practical to just get upgrades for the parts of the system that can practically be upgraded.