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- Path: cup.portal.com!Harv
- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Problems w/Netscape (1.12 or 2.0b3) + InterSLIP + SS
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 14:21:25 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <149496@cup.portal.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.151.4.12
-
- Okay, here's what I've got:
-
- Amiga 1200, 8 meg GVP 32 bit ram on a GVP 1230 (40mhz 030/882) card
- and a half gig internal IDE hard drive.
-
- Shapeshifter 3.3 using a 512K Mac ROM, and System 7.5
- Not registered yet so I'm using two x 20 meg filedisks, not
- disk partiions. Running either 2 or 16 color mode, 640x400.
-
- Generally, works pretty damn well. Themost complex app I've run
- on it is eWorld (Apple's online service) plus a few times the
- eWorld Web Browser (a separate app) on top of that (it comes with
- its own proprietary TCP stack and is totally self-contained).
-
- So I decided I'd try to get Netscape going on this setup.
-
- I downloaded both Netscape 1.12 and 2.03b. I'm using them
- with MacTCP of course and InterSLIP to make the connection to
- TIA in my Portal UNIX shell account.
-
- Well after plowing thru the MacTCP and InterSLIP setups, making
- InterSLIP scripts to log me in, rebooting about 50000 times till
- I got it to actually work right, both versions of Netscape exhibit
- the same problem:
-
- The program runs, it loads, its window opens, it goes to the Netscape
- home page, and then sometime during that first page fetch or shortly
- thereafter it completely locks up the SS emulation and the entire
- Amiga, requiring a reboot. I was pretty surprised when I tried
- Netscape 2.03b this morning to find that just by running it, it would
- automatically start up InterSLIP, dial in and use my chosen
- connection (gateway) script. quite impressive. However, not as
- impressive when it too locked up shortly after getting
- the Netscape home page.
-
- So I'm almost there, but not quite. I don't get any error msgs
- at all.. both netscapes just freeze and lock the whole system
- completely.
-
- Any ideas or things to look at for a possible solution?
-
- Thanks,
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
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