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Is Highwire Dead? [message #143734] Fri, 27 April 2012 00:29 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: artisan213574

Hello:

I was wondering if the Highwire Web browser project is still in development or not. Can anyone give me information concerning this? I wanted to experiment in getting Web access on my Atari 1040STE.

Thanks.

–Steve P.
Re: Is Highwire Dead? [message #145642 is a reply to message #143734] Fri, 27 April 2012 10:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Francois LE COAT is currently offline  Francois LE COAT
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Hi,

artisan213574@gmail.com writes :
> I was wondering if the Highwire Web browser project is still in development or not. Can anyone give me information concerning this? I wanted to experiment in getting Web access on my Atari 1040STE.

The actual WEB browser that is developed for ATARI is Netsurf

<http://nic-nac-project.org/~monokrom/geeklog/>

I'm not quite sure that a 1040STe is convenient.

Best regards,

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François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/
http://fon.gs/atarians/
Re: Is Highwire Dead? [message #145643 is a reply to message #143734] Fri, 27 April 2012 19:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jean-François Lemair is currently offline  Jean-François Lemair
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artisan213574@gmail.com wrote:

> I was wondering if the Highwire Web browser project is still in
> development or not. Can anyone give me information concerning this? I
> wanted to experiment in getting Web access on my Atari 1040STE.

Well, since there hasn't been any activity for about 2 years I guess it's
fair to say the project is as good as dead. Fortunately the source code is
available, so it can help other projects indirectly. A free project never
really dies, in a way.

Cheers,
JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire
Re: Is Highwire Dead? [message #145644 is a reply to message #145642] Fri, 27 April 2012 19:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jean-François Lemair is currently offline  Jean-François Lemair
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Francois LE COAT wrote:
> artisan213574@gmail.com writes :
>> I was wondering if the Highwire Web browser project is still in
>> development or not. Can anyone give me information concerning this? I
>> wanted to experiment in getting Web access on my Atari 1040STE.
>
> The actual WEB browser that is developed for ATARI is Netsurf
>
> <http://nic-nac-project.org/~monokrom/geeklog/>
>
> I'm not quite sure that a 1040STe is convenient.

To be honest, I'm not even sure Highwire would be usable on a 1040, if it
really only has 1Mb RAM. I would suggest CAB, which is slower but known to
work even on very low end Ataris.

Cheers,
JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire
Re: Is Highwire Dead? [message #145645 is a reply to message #145643] Sat, 28 April 2012 03:56 Go to previous message
Guillaume Tello is currently offline  Guillaume Tello
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Le 28/04/2012 01:48, Jean-François Lemaire a écrit :
> A free project never
> really dies, in a way.

What a poet... ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> JFL
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