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- From: sledford@iglou2.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: ECS Web Browsers?
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- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 07:30:21 GMT
-
- m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
-
- >Nhan Nguyen (st82f@bayou.uh.edu) wrote:
- >: On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Michael Patterson wrote:
- >:
- >: > > You may attend a party where strange customs prevail.In a word no! All the new ones require version 3.x of Workbench or at
- >: > least all the ones I've seen. With WB 3.x however you can use the ECS
- >: > chip set and get nice 16 color images on Ibrowse or Amosaic. I use an
- >: > A2000 with WB3.1 everytday.
- >: >
- >: > Michael Patterson
- >: > TFSnet Amiga systems Administrator
- >:
- >: Now do the browsers require *WB* 3.x or *Kickstart* 3.x? SKick lets me
- >: use any kickstart, from 1.2 to 3.x on my A3000, I believe.
-
- >The browsers need WB3.x, because they use datatypes. datatypes.library is
- >included on the WB disks, not in Kickstart. And you'll need Kickstart 3.x
- >as well, because WB3.x won't work without it.
-
- >-- Mat.
-
- Actually, they don't *require* WB3.x or KS3.x. To get any graphics with a
- web browser, you would need the DataTypes of WB3.x. Most (if not all) the
- web browsers will run on an ECS machine with at least WB2.0. Upgrading to
- 3.1 to get the graphics is definitely worth it, however. On an ECS
- machine without a graphics card, you will be limited to 16 colors though.
- A graphics card on an ECS machine will give 256 to 16M colors though.
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-