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Offline locutusTopic starter

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browser for OS2
« on: August 28, 2003, 04:40:05 PM »
Does a grafical browser for OS2 exist ? as the only thing can find atm are compiled versions of Lynx wich are of course text only, anything like something really old someone still got lying somewhere wich will do simple HTML + JPG's ? :-)

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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2003, 04:42:28 PM »
Do you mean AmigaOS 2.x, or IBM OS/2? :-)
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2003, 04:43:17 PM »
AmigaOS2.0 ofcourse :p
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2003, 04:47:59 PM »
install MUI and IBrowse?

There's also AWeb & Voyager.  Can't think of any others.  First of all though you need something like MUI/ClassAct/Reaction to provide the GUI toolkit necessary for apps like these to run.

Presumably you've got a hard disk in the machine you intend to web browse with?
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2003, 05:00:57 PM »
Well there is7was also AMosaic the oldest of them all.

It did come with unexpanded A1200, meaning it ran on 3.1, making it the most likely
candidate to run on 2.x.
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2003, 05:06:35 PM »
The machine is a A3000 with RTG (using EGS, damn that is a unstable system) 17GB IDE disk (on the Xsurf's IDE connector using loads of little 2GB partitions) a 250MB SCSI HDD to boot from and on wich resides SYS: and Work:  an Xsurf for Ethernet and 12MB of RAM.

I tried to use iBrowse, but it insisted on Kick3.1.
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2003, 05:09:36 PM »
Hmm, can't help you I'm afraid.  I assume you've trawled through Aminet?
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2003, 05:11:57 PM »
Yes i did, the only thing i came across was Lynx.

But oh well, i should have 3.1 ROM's soon(ish) .
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2003, 05:39:21 PM »
try to get AMosaic 1.2. I've been searching for a OS 2.x-Browser a while ago, and it was only one I've found. It doesn't display graphics, but the the HTML layout is quite ok. For anything other (except Lynx) you need OS 3.x !
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2003, 05:49:35 PM »
@ locutus

I've just checked that even IB2.3 (the best Amiga browser ATM) works with 3.0 ROMs.

Anyway i've used for years, IB2.2 with 3.0 ROMs.

Which message is shown on IB startup?

Ciao

-EDIT- IBrowse REQUIRES AMIGAOS 3.0+


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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2003, 05:57:56 PM »
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locutus wrote:
Does a grafical browser for OS2 exist ? as the only thing can find atm are compiled versions of Lynx wich are of course text only, anything like something really old someone still got lying somewhere wich will do simple HTML + JPG's ? :-)

VoyagerNG, basically the 2.x version of Voyager. From the Cyberwlf's page:

"VoyagerNG which you can download from Australia or US.
System Requirements: Amiga OS 2.0+, 2mb RAM, 5mb HD space, ECS Chipset, MUI 3.6+
Description: Majority of HTML 3.2 Commands supported. FTP/Mailto/News supported. Internet Explorer Support."

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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2003, 06:27:56 PM »
I know iBrowse is good :-) that's why i tried it.

( The A3000 with 2.0 ROM's is the replacement to my A4000 with 3.1 ROM's )
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2003, 07:47:39 PM »
OS/2  is actually still alive.. Amazing as that might seem..  It's still being updated and sold by an IBM vendor as  "Ecomm Station" it's new name (looks like the BeOS people had something to do with it's naming). Mozilla (aka Netscape) has been ported to it...

Check out ecomm station aka OS2 for further information. I think there are even some screen shots with browsers there. It still have a limited Win32 api too..


-Don

Image of Mozilla running on Ecomm Station (OS2)
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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2003, 08:11:56 PM »
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Does a grafical browser for OS2 exist ? as the only thing can find atm are compiled versions of Lynx wich are of course text only, anything like something really old someone still got lying somewhere wich will do simple HTML + JPG's ? :-)



As far as I recall, AMosaic did run under 2.x, but wouldn't show pictures (no datatypes?).  It's been a long time!

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Re: browser for OS2
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2003, 08:30:45 PM »
Oh you mean AmigaDOS 2.0x (it's not AmigaOS) till 3.1.. he he :-) Well Amosaic used to work just fine. Mike is right :-)

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