[gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

Thu Aug 25 04:40:09 UTC 2016

@Keven: You sound like a version of me :)

James Mills / prologic

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

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> 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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