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Posting this from my amiga
« on: January 27, 2011, 01:56:22 AM »
after a good afternoon working on it, I finally got my wireless card to work, and aweb to coorperate.
after disabling images, it actually runs a lot better than I hadimagined. The forum looks a bit butchered but its workable.

Still need to figure out how to make YAM and an MSN client work but hey, i'm one step closer now!
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 01:57:30 AM »
Quote from: runequester;609593
after a good afternoon working on it, I finally got my wireless card to work, and aweb to coorperate.
after disabling images, it actually runs a lot better than I hadimagined. The forum looks a bit butchered but its workable.

Still need to figure out how to make YAM and an MSN client work but hey, i'm one step closer now!

Awesome!  I bet there's a version of Lynx out there for the miggy - that might work awesome as well!  I've posted to Amiga.org from lynx before.
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 02:20:35 AM »
Quote from: runequester;609593
after a good afternoon working on it, I finally got my wireless card to work, and aweb to coorperate.
after disabling images, it actually runs a lot better than I hadimagined. The forum looks a bit butchered but its workable.

Still need to figure out how to make YAM and an MSN client work but hey, i'm one step closer now!


Cool, what classic system did you say you were using?  And what wireless card?
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 02:23:48 AM »
@ Runequester

Any chance you could make a video of your Amiga running the net and post it on YouTube... :)

Might just encourage me to finally do so myself if I could only see for myself the Amiga running a browser and just how much or little it can do... :)
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2011, 03:02:25 AM »
I dont actually have a camera, other than my very crappy cell phone, unfortunately :(
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2011, 03:10:27 AM »
I don't have a camera either my YouTube videos are captured by hooking the Amiga up the DVD recorder in my Living room and the burning them to DVD and then I use the Mac to upload them... :)
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2011, 04:31:28 AM »
yeah, no such option here. I dont even have a cd rom for her yet, though that wont be too far off I imagine.
Managed to get sabremsn to work, at least for now. Increasing the stack significantly seems to help
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2011, 04:34:33 AM »
No I don't mean a cd rom or dvd player on the Amiga, I mean the DVD recorder under the telly in your living room that you use to record TV progs (the modern version of a video recorder)... :)
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #8 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.

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2011, 05:24:33 AM »
theres a few, but they will feel pretty primitive. If you have a machine with RTG, life might be easier.
As far as recording stuff, my miggy is PAL, and I live in NTSC land, so im not sure thatd be an option, or at least work well, even if I had the equipment (my dvd player at the moment is an aging PS2)
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2011, 05:30:13 AM »
I use screen capture software on the PC: Hyperionics. On WinUAE there is a built-in recorder. Is there no screen capture for Amiga?
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2011, 05:37:46 AM »
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.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2011, 05:38:09 AM »
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I use screen capture software on the PC: Hyperionics. On WinUAE there is a built-in recorder. Is there no screen capture for Amiga?


Good question actually
 

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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #13 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.?
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Re: Posting this from my amiga
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2011, 06:25:41 AM »
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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.


Erm... can't answer that for you, never had a miggie online before, but after finally last week disassembling AWeb and currently in the process of converting it to re-assemble this time in true 68K (Not C like the original is written in) I've allready spotted a couple of hundred optimisations that can be made to it that should speed it up a wee bit... :)