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From: Andrew <singletona082@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Gemini client for legacy systems.
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 16:23:52 -0500
Message-ID: <tjun59$13ek$1@gioia.aioe.org>
It... Should be possible even for very old hardware to make somethign
that will render the gemtext (since it's just markdown which is just
askii (or possibly unicode)
Hard part is getting old hardware to work with TLS.
Given my own interest in retro hardware I had asked this in the original
mailing list and got a lotof 'why bother' type responses as well as some
helpful gems.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/the-mercury-protocol.gmi
So introducing an intermediary device (a pi or a micro controller) that
can handle encrypt/decrypt with the host device only having to handle
rendering via a'Mercury' client?
I don't know where or how to best start, but it seems like it'd be
doable, and having an old mac, or an amiga cruising Gemini-space just
seems too neat to not try to make happen.
On 10/10/22 4:05 PM, Anthk wrote:
Windows 95, 98 and ME users have Retrozilla.
Classic Mac, Be and NexTStep users have Crypto Ancienne.
Could it be possible to run a Gemini client on
these systems? I know the easiest way could
be to run Retrozilla against a web proxy,
but a native program would be a good achievement.
There are libraries for Unicode for W9X.
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Re: Gemini client for legacy systems. (by mbays@sdf.org on Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:52:27 GMT)