Re: internet browser for II or GS?

["Quantum_Cat" <anonymous@cotse.com>]

Greetings and salutation, Dorktor,

My goodness, when you get going, you can type up a storm!  

 *>Yes, the Arachnid IIgs graphics web browser that works 
with the Marinetti
 *>TCP/IP Suite, by Richard Bennett seems like a fine effort 
indeed.  I

indeed.  Too bad you've alienated Richard so badly in the 
past.  Development on Marinetti has suffered because of you.

 *>wouldn't be surprised if the Apple2 Delphi forum chat on 
the evening of
 *>April 10th doesn't reveal some EARTH SHATTERING 
announcement about its
 *>release.

WOW!  EARTH SHATTERING?!?!?!?

I'D BE SURPRISED IF YOU CHANGED YOUR SHORTS THIS WEEK!

 *>I noticed that the URL for the example GIF it shows - Ref.
 *>http://www.omninet.net.au/~khowe/arachnid/
screenshotpage.html
 *>hasn't changed yet.  It still shows the same web page, 
with text that reads:

Heh... silly me.  I _THOUGHT_ you'd typed up a storm.. Now I 
see it's your typical copy/paste.

 *>Welcome to Tom's Widget Shop - in Gadget, CA.  There's no 
URL noted in the
 *>address bar section though.  I've wondered a lot about 
that.  You know such
 *>a thing could technically be down with a HyperCard IIgs 
stack designed as
 *>such a graphical web browser.  Some of the Arachnid 
graphic icons remind me
 *>a lot of what you would see in a HyperCard IIgs stack 
also.

Yeah.. I suppose stacks aren't as much fun to steal.

 *>I followed the message board post and threads/replies 
about it on both the
 *>A2Pro and Apple2 Delphi forums - during last year thru 
early this year. 
 *>But, they seem to have just died out completely a couple 
of months back.

I suppose MOST A2 users know that Delphi is the place to go 
for this kind of information.  Relying on a lying thief is 
counter-productive.

 *>I even contacted the author - Kim Howe by email - offering 
some suggestions
 *>and help in overcoming the Unisys GIF fee that seemed to 
be his main problem

That would be a copyright.  Yep.  You sail past those 
problems by ignoring them.  ;)  Why pay a fee when you can 
steal it.

 *>with the program and releasing it, having some friends 
that work at Unisys -

Heh... You said you had friends again.  Heh...

 *>which is right here in my home city of Brisbane, CA.  But, 
Kim never replied
 *>to my offer to help him with that.  I guess his being 
friends with Richard
 *>Bennett and others on the A2Pro and Apple2 Delphi forums, 
he was warned to
 *>avoid me.

He IS showing uncommonly good sense.

 *>I guess I'm way behind the times concerning "The Lamp".  
but, I thought 
 *>Ryan was the Editor of it.  Even a current 4/1/2000 Apple2 
Delphi message
 *>board -AFD- post, that I read by Ryan (most amusing too) - 
mentioned that he
 *>was still "The Lamp" Editor.   But, then I've seen your  
reference to being

Publisher, moron.  Publisher.  Learn to read.

 *>the Editor of it also Lyle.  I guess it's sort of like  
with the GS
 *>WorldView online monthly ezine, we have three editors :) 
Macprober is the
 *>Editor-in-Chief, Rubywand is the Assist Editor and I'm  
the Contributing
 *>Editor.

An unholy trinity to say the least.

 *>About the 'No Java" for the Apple IIgs that Jeff Blakeney 
responded about, I
 *>guess with semantics he's correct.  But, it's getting 
fairly close with 
 *>this - URL Ref.

Semantics has nothing to with it, Charles.  He's correct.  
Your "fairly close" is far from it.

 ^snip^

 *>Ah yes...GNO/ME!  There's still a ton of potentials that 
could be developed
 *>and implemented with GNO/ME.  I've still got an interview 
- I want to do
 *>with Mr. D. Taubert for GS WorldView either this month or 
next.  I'd like to

And if you don't get it, you still make one up. 

 *>know whatever became of his efforts with the TCP/PPP 
bundle, and other
 *>related IIgs apps with it for use with GNO/ME, as well as 
several other
 *>things he was working on.  He looks like a happy fellow 
now and certainly he
 *>should be with his position he had at Cisco, down in San 
Jose, CA.  Check
 *>the big grin on his face in the 1/26/2000 cam-shot picture 
of him.  Ref.
 *>URL:

Well, he probably realized years ago that you and your 
Turlettes would pirate his efforts, and decided to forgo the 
headaches.

 *>http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v2000/
Feb/Graphics/
 *>D.Taubert.1.26.2000.jpg

Ooohhh... Let this be a warning to all folks with webcams.. 
You may end up in Dr. Tom's Pinup Collection!  Shudder...

 *>Anyway, back to the subject of an Internet browser for the 
II or GS?   The
 *>author of Spectrum had a most impressive collections of 
Spectrum
 *>enhancements listed in his AFD Apple2 Delphi forum message 
board post.  It
 *>would really be a dream come true for so many Spectrum 
users if all those
 *>items in his AFD post were for real.  Maybe some day they 
will be too.

And it would be nice if folks pay Ewen for all his work so he 
keeps improving matters.  Oh.  I'm talking to the wrong 
person here.

 *>There's so much happening with IIgs Internet related 
application development
 *>it seems. I'm really amazed that a computer such as the 
Apple IIgs - that's
 *>been out of production for so many years now - still has 
such an avid group
 *>of users, programmers and devoted followers to keep it 
alive and useful in

Too bad you keep screwing the programmers, and bad mouthing 
them.  Like you recently did to Burger.  And like RoseyWanker 
has done to Sheppy.

 *>so many ways.  I hope none of them ever give up with their 
efforts.  It

Yeah.. When the last programmer gives up, we'll just have 
your stale warez to fondle.

 *>makes the Apple II community a very interesting and 
enjoyable place to be
 *>in.  Just trying to keep up to date with everything going 
on in it, keeps me
 *>busy nearly all day - every day.   And, there's always 
something new,

Oh the joys of unemployment.

 *>innovative and unique with each day that comes around too!

Uh.. What world are you living on?

 *>Cheers, Tom


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Quantum_Cat

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