RR>  
 RR> Okay, I will order my new Pentium-133Mhz or PowerMac as soon as the
 RR> check from you arrives.  I assume it is in the mail?   :-)
 RR>  

 I didn't say I'd buy one for you, and I didn't say to get a Pentium.
 However, you should be able to upgrade your video card ni your PC to
 VGA for the cost of a used monitor - I'm sure soneone has a VGA card
 they can just give you - or sell to you for $5.

 As to green mono on your PC.  Right now I'm using green mono on a
 vintage AT&T Mini-computer and a vintage DEC VT240 terminal!  I hope
 to have TCP/IP on this machine within 2 weeks.  Yes, I WILL be
 able to browse Web Pages on this machine - but the pretty picures
 and fancy fonts will not display.  The information will come across
 nice and fast though.

 RR> Not me, but I'm using the 16 color ANSI for playing on-line games, so
 RR> the color is necessary.

You have to understand.  I don't like 16 color ANSI games.  I don't find
online games at all to be very entertaining.  That doesn't mean I don't
play games.  I'd love to spend hours playing MUDs if I had the time -
or playing my Jag more than once every two weeks.

 RR> I guess another idea for those interested in graphical web browsing
 RR> would be an ST medium mode for text and scalable fonts, and have the
 RR> program drop down to ST low mode for graphics.  My point is that any

You missed the point of my message.  Yes, you CAN do that.  Its possible.
In fact I think you can change from Medium to Low half-way down the
screen if you play with the hardware regs during HBL.  The point was that
the important stuff should come first.  1 - Networking - without this,
you have no Web.  Your best bet is to get the sources for Lynx or one
of the many graphical Unix Web Browsers and use MiNT-Net for 100% TCP/IP
socket compatibility.  2 - the interface.  Display what you need in
scrollable windows - allow graphics to be scaled to a size relative
to the size of your text (and that cn be changed using GDOS).  Users
with ST Mono will get nice readable screens and dithered graphics.
Those running in ST Medium or St Low will get chunky scaled graphics or
very large displays you have to scroll around with scroll bars.

After you get a basic Web Browser - then you can add the hacks.  I'm
just stating that there are priorities, and the basic legal coded
stuff should be first - and the hacks can come later - and should be optional.
Then Falcon/MultiTOS users can use the program and their hardware/OS to
full potential while ST/STe users can choose between a legal GEM display
or some extra colors and whiz-bang features.  Myself, I would rather
have the clarity than the colors, and I think the Web is the worst part
of the internet - almost sickening.  But if you are gonna work on
a Web Browser, at least start with a Web Browser, not a graphical
DEMO.



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