Re: [gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

James Mills / prologic

E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:20 PM, James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:

Nice work!

Btw; I actually do have (many years ago) Delphi/FreePascal experience :)

I *might* be able to help (of course work @ FB is pretty flat out though :/)

cheers
James

James Mills / prologic

E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin@veroneau.net> wrote:
That's an issue with my Gopher server, I'll see if I can update the gopher-
type mappings.

Okay so from my many tests using VirtualBox, this Gopher client officially works
on all 32-bit versions of Windows except for Windows '95! However, it does
function perfectly on Windows NT 4.0! So now with more work and polish, we
will have a fully functioning and modern Gopher client which should work
across all legacy OSes. You can view the many screenshots I made in each of
this OSes here:

gopher://gopher.veroneau.net/1library/PascalGopher/ScreenCap

These are also on stock Windows, fresh from install. So no extra DLLs or
bullshit is needed to make it run on Windows NT/98/XP, and I'm sure everything
in between. :)

On Windows 95, it first complained about WS2_32.DLL(WinSocks2), so I went and
installed a Windows 95 update for it, then got a KERNEL32.DLL where a required
system call was missing. :( I can't say I tried to make it work under Windows
95. It might work on a later patched version like Windows 95c.

Currently Gopher type 7 is not yet implemented, but the call to make it work
in the code, I just need to put in a prompt asking for said query to make it
work. Other than that, currently 0,1, and I gopher types are implemented in
this PREVIEW VERSION. I will continue work on it, and add support for the
other gopher types, downloads, HTML, and other features like bookmarks and
such in a future release. I will announce updates through this thread.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:00:39 PM James Mills wrote:
> The Mac binary is not being reported as a binary file? OverbiteFF :)
>
> Oh well downloaded it now; giving it a try.
>
> Can we get this into Homebrew?
>
> cheers
> James
>
>
> James Mills / prologic
>
> E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au
> W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin@veroneau.net> wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I am very proud to finally officially announce my new GopherClient
> > built
> >
> > using
> > FreePascal/Lazarus. This is a PREVIEW RELEASE, so not every gopher
> > feature is
> > yet available, but the big ones are. It will be available with binary
> > releases on all current major platforms. Furthermore, it will not
> > require any
> > external dependencies or runtimes. In fact, I originally built and
> > tested it
> > on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 workstation, and I was able to copy the
> > binary
> > built there onto my Debian Wheezy workstation and it actually ran! I
> > didn't
> > need to install anything, it just worked.
> >
> > Attached is a screenshot of it running on my KDE Debian Linux box, I
> >
> > will be
> > compiling a Mac OS X and Windows version later on tonight and uploading
> > the binaries into my GopherSpace for all to enjoy!
> >
> > Furthermore, this project is entirely open sourced under the GPLv2
> >
> > license,
> > so feel free to fork it, add to it, and what have you. You can locate
> > the source code on my BitBucket page here:
> > https://bitbucket.org/kveroneau/gopherclient
> >
> > You can find the binaries and source code on my GopherSpace here:
> > gopher://gopher.veroneau.net/1library/PascalGopher
> >
> > The Pascal unit file gopherclient.pas can be used in other GPLv2
> >
> > programs.
> >
> > Currently the GopherSpace has binaries for Linux, Mac OS X, and I am
> > just
> >
> > about to build the Windows version right away. Each binary is only 7MB
> > in size uncompressed.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
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