Re: Spectrum AND SIS to view a web page?

[Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid>]

Jason Whorton <jason at microxl.com> wrote:
> Hello.  I am trying to figure out the information I have read here and on
> Joe Kohn's website.  Would I have to buy Spectrum ($35) and Spectrum
> Internet Suite ($30) in order to view a web page while on the Internet?

Spectrum is a telecommunications program for the Apple IIGS. It runs
under GS/OS, with pull down menus, and it is Marinetti compliant.
 
In a sense, you could say that Spectrum is a general purpose telcomm
program, on steroids. By that, I mean, it frees IIGS owners from being
tied to a dial up Unix Shell Acct; working with Marinetti, it lets you
access the net with a PPP or SLIP connection...something that no other
Apple II telecomm program does...as well as providing traditional dial
up access to the net or to local BBSes.
 
Spectrum is as full featured a IIGS telecomm program, as is imaginable.
It has all the standard options of a telcomm program built-in, and then
some. If you take a look-see at program author Ewen Wannop's web site,
there's a fairly extensive list of features described at:
 
http://www.btinternet.com/~ewannop/index.html
 
Also built into Spectrum is a powerful scripting langauage, a language
so powerful that add-ons have been created that couldn't have even been
dreamed of when Spectrum was first released, way back in the distant
days of the 20th Century.
 
Spectrum Interest Suite is one such entity. Known as SIS, it is a IIGS
web browser that lets you "surf the world wide web" using your familiar
GS/OS interface. SIS is written in Spectrum's scripting language, and it
is therefore invoked from within Spectrum itself.
 
Obviously, Spectrum doesn't require the use of SIS, but in order to use
SIS, you must have Spectrum installed and running. It also requires
access to a Unix Shell, by either direct dial up or via Telnet.
 
Spectrum Automated Mailer, known as SAM, is similar, in the fact that it
is an optional Spectrum add-on written in Spectrum's scripting language,
and it provides access to POP3 and SMTP e-mail.
 
The above two add-ons (SAM and SIS) are commerically available from
Shareware Solutions II - http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko
 
In addition, Ewen Wannop has released several Freeware add-ons for
Spectrum Users, which can be downloaded from his site, located at
http://www.btinternet.com/~ewannop/dwn.html
 
Spectrum Automated File Exchange (SAFE) is an ftp client, and SOAR is an
offline reader for Syndicomm's A2Central.com site.
 
You can read much more detailed descriptions and/or see screen shots at
Ewen's site and at my site (URLs listed above) and when you're ready to
purchase these incredible 21st Century IIGS gems, you can do so online
at:
 
http://order.kagi.com/?zs3
 
Joe Kohn
Publisher of Spectrum