🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Article #6555

Re: ibrowse & 24 bit datatypes

#6555
From: Hannu Nevalainen
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:03
29 lines
1822 bytes
> +On 16-Apr-96 15:52:10 Steve Koren
> +<koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
> +wrote in "comp.sys.amiga.networking"

> I finally got around to FTP'ing the 24 bit datatypes from aminet so I
> could run ibrowse on a 16 bit screen.

> Boy, that's really a lot nicer, isn't it?  You don't know what you're
> missing until you have a browser that can handle real 16 bit screens.
> The paltry 256 color screen just doesn't cut it any more.

> Anyway, it does seem *slighly* less stable now with the 24 bit
> datatypes.  By slightly, I mean I get about one crash per 3 hours of
> use, where before it was about one crash per 5-6 hours.  Still not too
> bad, and it looks so much nicer that its hard to go back anyway.

 Have you tried running IBrowse *WITHOUT* the internal imagedecoder (i.e.
 disbled it) ?

 Hardly crashes AT ALL.
 Would be nice to have it fully functional though.

Kind regards/Mvh
/Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga user since '85.   /*1996-04-17@21:53CET*/
>> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/      /*Thor$ver[1642]*/
<sb> rexx:random(64 tags) -> "Intel_warning"
 Q:  What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker on Pentiums?
 A:  The warning label.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1248.6681T1315T875@ida.his.se>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mail2news.demon.co.uk!ipcsun6

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mail2news.demon.co.uk!ipcsun6
From: Hannu Nevalainen <a95hanne@ida.his.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Re: ibrowse & 24 bit datatypes
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:03:14 +0200
Organization: NONE!
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <1248.6681T1315T875@ida.his.se>
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: ipcsun6
In-Reply-To: <oj6ybnwdxwl.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
content-length: 1170
X-Mail2News-Path: karon.his.se!ida.his.se!oden.ida.his.se!ipcsun6