[gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

Thu Aug 25 04:30:17 UTC 2016

That's great to hear!  I've previously used Turbo Pascal 4.0 in 2001 when I 
was looking to learn a compiled language.  Prior to Turbo Pascal I was 
using... various BASIC dialects including AppleSoft BASIC, QBASIC, ASIC, among 
others.  After losing my copy, and not having a 5.25" drive, I ended up moving 
into Visual Basic.  When I got into web programming, like most people of the 
early 2000s, I wrote PHP and some Perl.  Move forward to 2010, and I switched 
over to Python as my primary language for desktop apps, scripts, and web 
development.  Only in recent months have I been really trying to get back into 
Pascal programming, and creating a Gopher client is a great way to learn and 
understand a lot of the language.  So, do excuse some of my code, as it may 
not be best practice and other issues might exists in there. :(  So having 
more eyes that understand Delphi/Pascal would be great.

Oh, and I fixed the gopher links on the download page, now all binary images 
should download just fine. :)  I also added a link to the source repo in the 
source code directory.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:20:13 PM James Mills 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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