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

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

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.

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.

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.