Posting this from my amiga

[Franko]

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...

[Franko]

I use screen capture software on the PC: Hyperionics. On WinUAE there is a built-in recorder. Is there no screen capture for Amiga?

Plenty of static screen grab programs, but I've never managed to find a movie capture type of prog for the Amiga, that's why I have to resort to using the DVD recorder, it does a good quality job though...

[dougal]

Ahhh all this talk of surfing the net on an Amiga really makes me miss my '060 A4000T That was great for Websurfing.

[fishy_fiz]

How do you think OWB would work on a 48Mhz '030 or a 50 to 80Mhz '060.?

To be honest even on an '060 + rtg it'd be a bit of a last resort. While it works reasonably it is pretty rough around the edges. Pages need to fully load before if becomes responsive on my amithlon box even, so in its current state I cant imagine it being very fun on an '060 machine. It has saved me needing to resort to aros owb or a Windows browser when all other amiga browsers have failed me, but that's about the best I can say for it. It works, renders pages nicely and with decent functionality, but probably not an option on a real classic Amiga.

[runequester]

so got the demo of Ibrowse installed and I must say it isn't toobad at all

[TCMSLP]

I've posted this before but here's a screen capture of iBrowse running on my 50Mhz 68030:-

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=14975080&l=c77753faff&id=546790172

Edit: Also another of the actual machine ...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=17110328&l=3aaaae5c89&id=546790172

It works, is reasonably fast, but obviously doesn't do CSS.  Did someone have a proxy configured to do some magic here?

[Franko]

I've posted this before but here's a screen capture of iBrowse running on my 50Mhz 68030:-

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=14975080&l=c77753faff&id=546790172

Edit: Also another of the actual machine ...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=17110328&l=3aaaae5c89&id=546790172

It works, is reasonably fast, but obviously doesn't do CSS.  Did someone have a proxy configured to do some magic here?

Thanks for those pics... (would still like to see a Video of it in action though)

Reckon it's time to buy one of those net cards (if AmigaKit have any in that is) and give it whirl on my 060, any recommendations for which card to buy as I've heard the wireless ones are pretty slow...

[TCMSLP]

Hi Franko,

There's usually a number of PCMCIA ethernet cards available on amibay.   I believe most old (16 bit PCMCIA, NOT Cardbus) 3com cards will work too (so probably easy to find for a few quid on ebay).

Edit: This one is likely to work - but you'd need to check ... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3Com-Etherlink-III-Lan-PC-Card-PCMCIA-10BASE-T-Coax-/170594311818

[Franko]

Hi Franko,

There's usually a number of PCMCIA ethernet cards available on amibay.   I believe most old (16 bit PCMCIA, NOT Cardbus) 3com cards will work too (so probably easy to find for a few quid on ebay).

I'd noticed quite a few on ebay this week but not knowing much about them I wasn't sure, Id prefer to buy a new one from AmigaKit but they only have the wireless one now and MrMoonlight who bought one of each said the wireless on was pretty flaky compared to the wired one...

Need to have another look on ebay and try and decide which one is best...

[runequester]

wireless is a lot more of  a pain to set up, but I dont think mine is flaky at all. In fact, its been pretty rock solid so far.

You do need to have a wireless router of course.


Wireless is easier on a 1200 or 600, as you can use PCMCIA cards. There's ethernet cards for the zorro equipped miggy's but they require wire.

[Franko]

wireless is a lot more of  a pain to set up, but I dont think mine is flaky at all. In fact, its been pretty rock solid so far.

You do need to have a wireless router of course.


Wireless is easier on a 1200 or 600, as you can use PCMCIA cards. There's ethernet cards for the zorro equipped miggy's but they require wire.

I think I may just buy the wireless one and give it a try then, MrMoonLight (Brian) had never used an Amiga until a few months ago and I was helping him over the phone to try and set up his A1200 with HD etc...

I think he was having problems getting it right though, between my Scottish accent and trying to explain how to format HDs and install OS3.9, it's not quite so easy trying to explain things over the phone so maybe he just didn't set the wireless card up right...

[runequester]

yeah, i'd say go for it. web browsing is tolerable for most things, you can use instant messaging pretty well, and it makes getting stuff off aminet a snap

[Franko]

Think I'll head over to AmigaKit now and order one, I shouldn't really but heck after spending over £400 on Sunday on ebay for some old VIC20 & C64s and quite a few other bits n bobs what's difference is another 40 quid gonna make, it's only money after all...

(Need to go and get the 2 Vic20s and one of the C64s out of the bathtub after they arrived today, they were manky, should be nice & clean now though...

[Khephren]

I know it's cheating, but has anyone tried ICab 2.9 under shapeshifter? It's meant to have CSS and tabbed browsing as well.

[rockersuke]

Thanks for those pics... (would still like to see a Video of it in action though)

I made this youtube last year to show how my recently acquired LCD monitor worked with some retrogaming hardware. At 6.15 you can see my 68030 50 MHz miggy 1200 accessing the net. It's loading this page. You can compare the results. In the spanish-spoken voice-over I'm commenting how long it takes just to show the logo of the site ^_^'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T7yt_OgDzs

(at 6.15 )

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[desiv]

Posting frmo iBrowse right now on my A1200 with an ACA1230/28.
This site is slow, I'm guessing because of the amount of Javascript.
Sites like aminet.net are fairly responsive, which is pretty much what I think will be the most used site from my 1200.

Also, in the other thread, there was talk about AWeb and images.
It works for me.  For some reason tho (I'm guessing cookie related, I possibly disabled something) I couldn't stay logged in.  It would say "Thank you for logging in" and then take me back not logged in..
But, it does work with images for me.

I'm using A-Web  APL 3.4

desiv
p.s.  Quick Reply doesn't work for me either..