Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote in message news:<20030323193049.10326.00000329@mb-ci.aol.com>...
> steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius) wrote:
> 
> >You are correct; it is possible to build and run lynx NATIVELY on
> >M$-DOS, Windows 95 and probably other systems.  If Bobcat is a
> >relatively complete Lynx for 8088s running Messy Dog, I don't see why
> >Lynx can't be ported to the IIgs, which is a more capable system than
> >the stock PC.
> 
> This is correct.  First, as you've seen in my other posts, I am
> a modern PC user but I also remember a time when the IIGS
> was indeed better than the PC.  I also had a PC Transporter
> so I could actually see both at the same time.

;)

> 
> I was a diehard IIGS user and PCs did not really appeal to
> me until Windows 95 and the Voodoo graphics accelerators
> from 3dfx made their appearance.
> 
> Paul, if I recall, is a little different in that he was a real early
> PC adopter and thus may not appreciate what the IIGS
> could do in the later days.  Paul is wrong when he says the
> IIGS can not have a TCP/IP stack designed for it.  In fact,
> there is such a thing that was developed a couple of years
> back.

Marinetti?

BTW, I cut my teeth on the //e (both versions), //c and occasional
Vader back in 1983-1986, and in 1987 I started using the IIgs (one ROM
0 and one ROM 1, and later I swore I had seen "ROM Version 02") :\ and
only adopted the PC (IBM PC, CGA, 128K RAM, 2 360K FDDs, running Disk
BASIC on PC-DOS 3.20) later.

> I think what happened was interest in the IIGS started to
> dwindle at around that time.  Many good things were in beta
> but then stopped at the time.  Take the Second Sight video
> card, a cool concept.  I have the card, it is an SVGA card
> for the IIGS.  But it is more like a beta product because
> interest in the IIGS dropped fast around the same time of
> its release.  Same thing with the IIGS fax software.  The
> IIGS has something similar to Lynx but far less developed
> called SIS.  Again, if this came out several years earlier,
> it might have developed into more or less a Lynx clone.

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> Why there is no Lynx for IIGS is not any technical
> limitation.  I must disagree with Paul on this.  Why there
> is no Lynx is because there is not enough interest in
> those who have the skills to program it.

I agree fully with you there.  Maybe one can start with the Bobcat
sources - I would bet they're on www.fdisk.com somewhere - and port
them, or maybe it is possible to have a full-blooded lynx on GS/OS.

I don't have the tools, although I have XGS-DOS... <wishes Bernie
would run on a PC, esp. a 486/133 with DR DOS 6>

-uso.