Endgame Viable

One of the reasons we all had to leave the Amiga behind as our main PC was the inability of the tiny Amiga developer community to keep up with the armies of Windows developers and consumer demand.

For example, we consumers found out that it was pretty cool to be able to browse Internet web pages with Netscape and Internet Explorer on our Windows machines.  So we turned back to our Amigas and tried to do the same thing, and this is what we got:

Uh, not quite as cool.  Let’s count the things it doesn’t support:  CSS, Javascript, AJAX, UTF-8 and anti-aliased fonts.  Pretty much all the things we take for granted on Windows and Mac and Linux.  At least it supports cookies and animated GIFs. :)

This is what it’s supposed to look like, in case you are reading this on an Amiga:

The above Amiga screenshot shows AWeb 3.4 (which is actually still under development) running on Cloanto’s Amiga Forever 2008 emulator.  The copyright date on the AWeb software is 2002.

Whatever happened to Voyager and IBrowse?  Ah, there they are.  They look to have a much better feature set but I see that they are also trying to make some money to support further development.  Good luck with that.

So yeah, not much change in the state of the Amiga web browser situation.  It looks pretty bleak for the Amiga being able to play in The Cloud.  But it’s good for testing whether your web design degrades gracefully.