[gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

[James Mills]

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 at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at 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 at shortcircuit.net.au
> > W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at 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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