Surfing the Internet with a classic Amiga

[Prmetime]

Hello all,
   I have three Amigas sitting around after I upgraded them to new batteries and the like.  I'm thinking about selling two of them to get money for the Micro A1.  The Amiga I'm planning on keeping for the moment is my A600 but I'm wondering if anyone ever surfs the web with the old ECS chipset?  I doubt that any pictures will display well but what about the rest of it?  If anyone does this, please let me know.

[amigau]

I have done it but it kinda stinks, because the best you have is 16 colors to work with.  You're far better off to use an A1200/A4000 with AGA and at least 128 colors, or, any accelerated amiga with a graphics card...

that having been said, if you are just pulling files off Aminet or otherwise, this would work just fine....

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[leirbag28]

@Primetime

 Well I hope you have an upgraded A600 with a 68020 or 68030.........I have gone online with my 600 even without the 68030, but you have to leave it in 4 colors and eliminate image browsing.......now if you have a 68030 you can view images.  The best is using AmIRC, or AOL Instant Messenger (AmigAIM), whch is quite fun.

 I have seen some people browsing wonderfully with their upgraded A500's so an Upgraded A600 should be able to do slightly better, especially if you have a PCMCIA ethernet card for high speed Cable modem.

[Akira]

If you wanna do it in your A600, do it oldschool stylee.

Use lynx for text web browsing!
I think you could use AmFTP and AmIRC.

AmiTCP should run fine in your 600 because something like Miami will eat up most of your mem, even if you have 2MB of Chip, so it's not recommended.

Do it. but oldschool style Forget about all that upgrading malarkey.

[jjans]

Akira wrote:
If you wanna do it in your A600, do it oldschool stylee.

Use lynx for text web browsing!

I can sort of relate to this goal. I have an A500/A530 with no enhanced gfx(OCS), and have wanted to surf the net. The lynx idea sounds good to me for simply browsing aminet, which is all I really desire.

My problem is sharing a cable internet connection with a Windows XP host, via a serial->com1 connection.

Any ideas how to do that?

[TjLaZer]

I have a Commodore-Amiga A1200 upgraded to a 68040 @ 33Mhz, 32MB Fast RAM, 8GB IDE HD and OS 3.9 and I connect to my LAN via a PCMCIA Ethernet card.  Works great.  BUT Surfing on it is absolutely painful!!!  I would highly recommend you forget that idea on your A600.  Get a A2/3/4000 with a Graphic card.  I have a A3000 and a A4000 with 68060's @ 66Mhz and Cybervision 64's and surfing on them is a pleasure.

[Akira]

Tjlazer, I suppose one would have to define painful. As i said before, browsing with Lynx is easy and smooth. Checking mails is good too! But if you want to see java flash CCS and all that malarkey, forget about browsing with an m68k Amiga at all.

My problem is sharing a cable internet connection with a Windows XP host, via a serial->com1 connection.

I am not aware of a Windows solution, but when I did it with my 600, I conencted the two this way, by loading a ppp daemon on my linux box with some parameters (I found this in a doc on the Aminet, on how to network an Amiga or something, I might be able to track it down), it worked perfectly. I was lazy enough not to configure the amiga's way outside the intranet, but iit worked just fine on all the intranet, and pretty fast for a serial SLIP connection.

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Akira is correct. I've tried similar set-up. I'm using,TCP,  was Miami and ALYNX(v?.?) from aminet. I bought his 56k modem the following month. hehe! :-P I've used my Friend's A500 with M-Tec(?) expansion SCSI 750mb HD, 8MB ram. ROM 2.05 ATT.

I tried Ibrowse2.2 but so many things are disabled like graphics, maps... It too worked fine.

See. Even on a min setup A500, you can get on-line with your A600. :-D

Regards,

Gizz

[TjLaZer]

Well when I do simple surfing with iBrowse 2.3 the screen is really slow and scrolling is very sluggish.  That is at 256 colors, but even at 128 it is slow too.  We are talking about night and day when you do it with a graphics card.  I am sure if I tried it at 16 colors that would help too but IMHO not worth it on a ECS machine.  Use the A600 for games and get a real Amiga!

NOTE: I never said you cannot get online with a A600.  You can, but would you want to endure the pain, is the question!?   :-D

[Prmetime]

Thanks for all the replies.  I have a couple of "real" Amigas (2 A3000s) which I have surfed the web with and they did fine.  I just don't use them much any more and I figured I could get more for them than for an A600.  However, it does appear that I could do what I wanted even with the A600 ( I have an accel card for it).  I have used IBrowse which I do like though I have never used Lynx.  Where can you still get that browser?