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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Gemini client for legacy systems.
Date: 13 Oct 2022 08:14:45 +1000
Message-ID: <63473c54@news.ausics.net>
Matthew Ernisse <matt@going-flying.com> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 21:05:43 -0000 (UTC), Anthk wrote:
> 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.
It might be easiest to try to build one of the terminal clients
against Cygwin. You will probably have to use an older version
of Cygwin as they depricated 32-bit support but that seems like
a quicker route than developing a new application for archaic
Windows platforms directly.
Another option for the old Windows platforms might be to actually
target MSDOS with DJPP, and as those versions of Windows included
MSDOS that will in turn support them too (though requiring users
to drop out of the desktop). People have modern OpenSSL working
in MSDOS for things like web browsers.
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