Toronto Atari Federation
5334 Yonge Street, Suite 1527, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2N 6M2
Phone: (416) CALL-TAF, BBS: (416) 421-8999
Chimera is nice but I'd rather run another WWW Browser to get HTML+.
Is this possible?
Yes but this depends upon you having access to an Internet Service
Provider (ISP). That will allow you to run X-Windows applications on there system.
My local Internet Provider (Vex)
has X-Windows applications running on its server. So it's possible for me
to run those applications and have the output sent to a Window on my Atari's
X-Windows Desktop.
Update: Here's a simpler way suggested by Holger Janz
(hjanz@informatik.uni-rostock.de)
(http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hjanz/)
(Thanks!)
- Before you connect to your ISP start up a Xvt session and issue the command "xhost +".
If your Atari system has limited memory, issue an exit command to close the
window after issuing the xhost command.
- dynamic SLIP/PPP connect to your ISP and then login with telnet my.favorite.Sun.Workstation
- finger on the telnet shell to get your IP
- setenv DISPLAY IP:0.0 on the telnet shell (tcsh syntax) - (Where IP is the address from the
previous step)
- start your favorite X-Application as usually and it will appeare on your
Atari's X-Windows Desktop.
It will take a moment or two for the window to appear, depending upon how
complex the window information is. Your modem light (SD,RD) is the
best indicator of activity at first.
Here is my old method incase you have problems with the above:
- Connect to your ISP. If you are using a dynamic SLIP/PPP connect be sure to
note your LOCAL IP address that gets assigned to you.
- Start up a Xvt session and issue the command "xhost +" (without the quotes).
(Note: This step can be done before you connect to your ISP.) This
will allow any remote system to "write" output to your Atari X-Windows screen.
If you want to save some memory after you issue this command you can exit to
close the Xvt screen.
- Telnet to a ISP where the X-Windows Applications are located.
- Start the application as you would normally from the system prompt but
add the following information: "-display local.ip.address.given:0.0 &"
This is for a UNIX system, so the "&" makes this a background process.
(To start: netscape the command is: netscape -display 204.92.52.3:0.0 &
where 204.92.52.3 would be my local IP address when I signed on.) Again
to save memory you might want to shutdown the telnet session.
- If you check out your modem lights you'll see there is all kinds of
activity going on before you see anything. On my 14.4 modem it takes
about 5 minutes for the Netscape window to appear. So I normally read
some UseNet news while I wait.
- If you can run this way, you get the benifits of HTML+ (JPG, centering,
forms, etc.) PLUS pages with a lot of graphics is no longer an issue
as most of the dirty work is being done by your ISP rather than your
Atari computer!!
- Keep watching this space as I'll update/revise/simply this procedure as
I learn more.
- You can use the exact same procedure to start up Xclock, Xtrek, Xetc.
Written: Jul 28, 1995
Revised:
Maintained by: Stephen Christian (URL: http://www.vex.net/~schrist)
Comments to author: schrist@vex.net