On Saturday, September 30th, 1995 - Evan Langlois wrote:
 
EL>  However, you should be able to upgrade your video card ni your PC to
EL>  VGA for the cost of a used monitor - I'm sure soneone has a VGA card
EL>  they can just give you - or sell to you for $5.
 
I just stuck a used EGA card into my PC and then put my NEC 3D on it
(I bought that monitor with the intention of putting it on an Atari
Falcon, but that never materialized thank goodness).  Since my ST has a
faster modem and looks about the same, I'll still be using the ST for
playing online games.  Also, the PC drops characters randomly...
 
EL> You have to understand.  I don't like 16 color ANSI games.  I don't 
 
I don't blame you.  The 16 color ANSI is just a little bit of window
dressing on text oriented games.  I like text oriented games if they are 
straight forward enough - like Trade Wars and LORD.  As for ANSI games
that try to do a lot of animations, I'll "just say no" thank you.  :-)
If I could get these games to output to 40 columns I'd use my Atari 800.
 
EL> optional. Then Falcon/MultiTOS users can use the program and their 
EL> hardware/OS to full potential while ST/STe users can choose between a 
EL> legal GEM display or some extra colors and whiz-bang features.  
 
I think a full fledge graphical web browser will appear for the Falcon
TT first, and then maybe someday something will appear for ST.  My
expectation is that each browser will be system specific with the Falcon 
one crashing on the ST and vice versa.
 
EL> the Web is the worst part of the internet - almost sickening.  But if 
 
Yeah, it
's more style than substance, that's for sure.  And slow...
 
EL> you are gonna work on a Web Browser, at least start with a Web 
 
The other day I was at my friend's office at the UW and I used the
graphical web browser to access TOAD's web site.  It works very quickly
for Toad.  I'm not going to try downloading files from UK anymore, it
just takes forever.  I was able to nagivate my way into Toad's mirror of 
UMICH and started FTPing stuff.  I much prefer to FTP through the web
browser.  The only problem was that the new version of the web browser
was correctly identifying only *.zip files as compressed.  All the
others like *.arc and *.lzh it thought were text and when I clicked on
them I got gibberish on the screen and couldn't save them as files
(they'd just come out corrupted).  Unfortunately, the number zipped
files is somewhat limited on that FTP server.
 
The good news is that the files downloaded much faster than they would
coming from HENSA UK, and of course you can actually get on Toad's FTP
server, whereas you cannot get onto UMICH because it's crowded.
 
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