Re: Spectrum AND SIS to view a web page?

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

Hello, and thank you for all the pointers.  I had been to all the sites you
mentioned in the post, but must have not seen the "have to have a UNIX shell
account or Telnet into one" part to use SIS.  I guess that rules buying both
out, unfortunately.  I was thinking one could just view a web page in a
similar style as with a modern browser, just with limited features and text
instead of pictures.  With my modern PC, I never Telnet, connect to a UNIX
shell account, use Hyperterminal, or directly dial into anything other than
my MS based ISP.  I was looking to do the same on the IIGS.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton



"Joe Kohn" <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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
>