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Re: Gemini client for legacy systems.

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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>

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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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Gemini client for legacy systems. (by Anthk <anthk@disroot.org> on Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:05:43 -0000 (UTC))

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Re: Gemini client for legacy systems. (by mbays@sdf.org on Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:52:27 GMT)