#Amiga ibrowse full#
#Amiga ibrowse software#

Voyager, like so many others like it, uses MUI, and therefore includes the excellent configurabilty and quality of user interface that MUI generally denotes. This new release dramatically updated the browser's capabilities, not only to include the wonderfully useful Tables, but also to be the first Amiga web browser to support Frames, a feature conspicuously missing from the lot before then. Not a group to do things gradually, the Voyager team released Voyager NG (Next Generation) a bit over a month ago. However, in the time after it was introduced, it developed a strong following, making its way in some form into the Amiga Surfer package. At the time, it looked to have a good deal of potential, although it soon gave way to IBrowse's superior HTML capabilities. It was first introduced about a year ago in the form of the freeware Voyager 1.0. Voyager is brought to you by Oliver Wagner and VaporWare. I will now discuss each browser, in sequence. However, I will endeavor to point out which features are unique to the commercial version so as to avoid any confusion.

#Amiga ibrowse full#

I went ahead and bought IBrowse, so I'm using the full commercial version of that. If I can borrow access to somebody's ISP account, I may be able to do this in the future, but for now, it's just the browsers 'revving their engines in the garage.'įor this review, I am using the latest (as of this writing) demos of Voyager NG (Next Generation) and AWeb-II.

While I would like to do this, the method of charging on my CompuServe account makes this financially impractical. I will be conducting this review in that context it will simply be a look at some of the more 'user-accessible' aspects of the browsers, or outside impressions and features, and what any user is likely to encounter on any given day.Īlso, after reading about this upcoming article in the last issue of AM, a reader wrote in and suggested that I also investigate the various TCP stacks available for the Amiga, in connection with IBrowse, Voyager, and AWeb-II.

#Amiga ibrowse software#

I would like to say, first off, that I am by no means an expert at this type of software I am simply another Amiga user who uses such programs from day to day. In this 'Feature Review,' if you will, I will be looking at the latest versions of these three browsers. IBrowse, Voyager, and AWeb have all brought significant improvements over AMosaic, and make almost any Amiga with a hard disk and some extra memory fully Web-capable. Well within the last two years, three major Amiga-native browsers (as opposed to AMosaic, which was a port of the original Mosaic) have been developed and introduced. It could render different font sizes and styles, and display images, but that was about it. While seemingly remarkable at the time, in retrospect, AMosaic was quite simplistic. Graphical Internet connections were soon all the rage, and Mosaic paved new pathways along with the newly developing World Wide Web.Īmiga programmers had an answer, however, in the form of AMosaic, a graphical browser capable of using AmiTCP which, albeit difficult to configure and understand, was effective. There was a time, not too many years ago, when many Amiga users had to wonder if their computers could dream of keeping up with PC's and Macintoshes in the new, emerging world of the Internet. Maybe it helps if you use an other theme with SpiderWeb.Amiga Browsers: The Big Three A comparative look at the most popular modern Amiga web browsers I use the latest SpiderWeb version from the Fienix repository. I have the same issue with InterWeb and Arctic Fox but with SpiderWeb I have black text on white background on (see screenshot below). It looks okay here though and the text looks normal with black on white. It's hard to tell as I'm using Fienix right now and it has a black desktop theme. Is it because AW is old and lacks full on CSS? The AW gadgets are all black and inverted looking as well.

To my amazement a ten year old iBrowse is much more configurable in the palette department. I went into browser settings but they were limited with not much for colour.

I tried to post on AmigaWorld but the text and background are the same colour! That makes it near impossible to edit. I just tested InterWeb, SpiderWeb and ArcticFox.