Re: Wave featured on a German News site!

[god.ADettke@t-online.de (Arndt Dettke)]

From: Gaelyne Gasson <gaelyne@videocam.net.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 7:54 AM

> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hes-22.06.00-000/
>
> Perhaps Arndt could translate this for us?

So here we are:

Surfing with the breadbox
(article in the online newsticker section of the c't computer magazine
at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hes-22.06.00-000/)

Maurice Randall is currently developing an internet browser for the
Commodore 64 home computer. The C-64 that isn't delivered for years was
first marketed in 1983 and had 64 KBytes of memory, which was an
enormous quantity for those days' home computers. The first brand took
over the somewhat roundish type of case of its predecessor, the VIC-20,
and for that reason (in Germany) was called the "breadbox". The later
second version had a flat case in the typical design of the 1980ies.
There were further types of construction, e.g. a portable variant (see
picture) with a built-in color screen monitor.

The C-64 developed into a device of cult mainly because of his graphics
chip that allowed to program appealing games in spite of a relatively
weak processor. The built in BASIC and a universal control interface
(the userport) was its most interesting features for programmers and
hobbyists. Commodore as a manufacturer couldn't benefit from the early
success of its follower Amiga and had to declare bankrupt in 1994.

The browser "The Wave" now being developed provides besides the actual
browser the basic networking routines as well as a Telnet client. A
supply to edit mails is in the schedule. The browser masters the most
important HTML tags to display text, and the other week it displayed its
first homepage from the internet, the developer reports.

To operate it you need the graphical environment Wheels which is an
add-on to GEOS that was yet created more than 10 years ago. It actually
requires - and thus the browser too - the accelerator device SuperCPU
and at least 1 MByte of RAM.

A SuperCPU provides a 20 MHz processor to the C-64 and up to 16 MByte of
RAM. Creative Micro Designs offer yet further expansion devices for the
C-64 besides the SuperCPU. You find there along with a RAM disk a 4
GByte harddrive and a 3.5" floppy disk drive. The latter provides 1.6
MByte of storage and also reads PC-formatted diskettes.

Those who are on the run to their attic to search for their old C-64
should however consider the necessary investments: a SuperCPU will cost
at least $199 US, the GEOS add-on Wheels will be $36 US. The price of
the browser is not yet scheduled. (hes/c't)

Links:
http://www.cbm64.de
http://www.ia4u.net/~maurice/
http://www.ia4u.net/~maurice/gbrowse/whshots.htm
http://videocam.net.au/~colinjt/wavebrowser.html
http://www.cmdweb.de/
http://www.cmdweb.de/scpu.htm

mailto:hes@ct.heise.de

Translation to your uplift ;-) by Arndt Dettke

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