Re: ANN: Web Browser for 8 bit Apple //

[chris@CosmicWolf.com (Chris Morse)]

On 5 Apr 2002 16:33:56 -0800, julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)
wrote:

Thanks Ralph, & Ray for the lending hand...

I just wanted to ask in case someone who knows is listening and
can blurt out the few facts I need for direction.  I doubt I will
be able to work miracles, but if the pieces fit close enough I
may be able to spin the necessary thread to get a proof-of-concept
running.

uIP will be tightly coupled with the apps that uses it.  Obviously,
the Apple // is not a multi-tasking fruit, so uIP will have to either
be implemented in each "uIP app" or uIP would have to be loaded into
memory - like an MS-DOS TSR (terminate/stay resident) routine.  The
TSR model would be ideal; then you would not need to (possibly) have
to drop offline between each different kind of app (www browser, ftp,
telnet, irc, .. custom), but instead make it a sort of 'service'.

An "apple uIP boot disk" would start up the apple by loading uIP as a
TSR/service into a pre-defined peice of memory.  The first app to run
would be a "connect to host/isp" app that initialized uIP and connects
the machine (via serial direct-connect or modem) to a host/ISP.  Then
a selection of other apps would need to be written- telnet, ping, irc,
ftp, news, www browser, game(?!), whatever!  I would at least write
ping and telnet myself.  After that, I would probably try to implement
an ftp client and a simple news reader.  The www client I would let
someone else do altogether.  I could probably do something simple,
but most likely text only.

Anyhow, whatever progress I make I'll certainly share with everyone.
Life's a game.. bite an apple!

// CHRIS