ALynx is an ASCII

ASCII

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

-Web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 for Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 / (AmiTCP | MLink | AS225) which is a port of Lynx

Lynx (web browser)

Lynx is a text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals and is very configurable.-Usage:Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link's number. Current versions support...

 version 2.4-FM.

The current stable version of ALynx is 1.29 and is still available to be downloaded from the Amiga Aminet Repository.

Version 1.31 is also available.

History

ALynx: Amiga port of Lynx was ported to Amiga in 1995 by P. Marquardt. It was a porting of Lynx, which is a general-purpose distributed information browser and is part of the World Wide Web project. Lynx was designed to support a Campus Wide Information System (CWIS), but can be used for many other applications.

This browser is no longer being developed on Amiga.

See also

• AMosaic
  AMosaic
  AMosaic is an Amiga port of the Mosaic web browser, developed beginning in 1993, and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga. AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the University of Illinois or NCSA...
  
  
• AWeb
  AWeb
  AWeb is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source....
  
  
• IBrowse
  IBrowse
  IBrowse is an MUI-based web browser for the Amiga range of computers, and was a rewritten follow-on to Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer. IBrowse was originally developed for a company called Omnipresence, now defunct...
  
  
• NetSurf
  NetSurf
  NetSurf is an open source web browser which runs on a variety of platforms including RISC OS, AmigaOS and Unix-like systems. NetSurf has features that include tabbed browsing, text selection and PDF export...
  
  
• Origyn Web Browser
  Origyn Web Browser
  Origyn Web Browser is a web browser that is synchronized with WebKit and sponsored by web enabler Pleyo. OWB provides a meta-port to an abstract platform with the aim of making porting to embedded or lightweight systems quicker and easier...
  
  
• Sputnik
  Sputnik (web browser)
  Sputnik is a web-browser for MorphOS developed by Marcin Kwiatkowski. It is a port of the KHTML browser, which is based on S60 WebCore. Sputnik was first released to the general public on November 11, 2006. The second public release occurred on March 10, 2007....
  
  
• TimberWolf
  Timberwolf (web browser)
  Timberwolf web browser is the name of an ongoing project created to port the Firefox 3.5 browser to the Amiga platform. The first Alpha 1 version was made available for download on June 9, 2010....
  
  
• Voyager
  Voyager (web browser)
  Voyager is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers, developed by VaporWare.Voyager supports HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4, JavaScript, frames, SSL, Flash, and various other Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator features....
  
  

External links

• ALynx homepage
• History
• Aminet