In a message of 01 Oct 95  14:02:35, Rodney Rudd wrote:

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

You can set preferences in the web browser to handle files with different
extensions.  I use Netscape and had the same thing happen until I set ARC,
ZOO, TOS and other files to be saved to disk.

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