[gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

[James Mills]

Ooops I think you have a packaging problem.

OS X 10.11.6 (El Captain) is unable to open the DMG.
The error is "unrecognized disk image".

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:20 PM, James Mills <prologic at 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 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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