Re: Apple IIGS Browser?

[Michael Kent <michael@syndicomm.remove.this.com>]

limtc <thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:

> Really a little sad to hear. This is after all a Graphics and Sound
> computer.

It is sad, true, but four colors per scanline can really be limiting for
graphics these days.

Most of the other internet apps have come a ways in the last few years,
though.  Spectrum is still supported and now has its own script-based
POP3/SMTP mail program.  SHR-mode ftp is now available as either a Spectrum
script (SAFE) or as a stand-alone Marinetti app (SAFE2).  A stand-alone
newsreader was also recently released (SNAP), as well as an IRC client.
Sheppy's AOL instant messenger is still available, though I don't know
how well it survived the IM protocol wars of a few years back.  Oh, and
Ryan Suenaga just released a text messenger in case you absolutely posi-
tively need to text someone from your Apple II.

And we're anxiously awaiting the imminent release of IN: The Mailbox any
day now.  :-)

Probably the biggest things to hit the Apple II world recently, however,
are both hardware.  The CFFA card brings CompactFlash media to the Apple II
for high-capacity storage.  And the LANce GS and Uthernet cards bring
ethernet.

So if you have a home network, there's no excuse not to get your GS
working again and hooked up to the outside world!

Welcome back,
Mike