- AMosaic
Infobox Software
name = AMosaic
caption = AMosaic 1.1 screenshot
latest_release_version = 2.0
operating_system =AmigaOS
platform =Amiga
genre =Web browser
website = [http://rachael.dyndns.org/amosaic/home.html AMosaic home page]AMosaic is an
Amiga port of the Mosaicweb browser . It was the first non-*NIX port of Mosaic, and the first graphical web browser made available for the Amiga. AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the University of Illinois or NCSA. The last version of AMosaic was a 2.0 prerelease.As is the case for other versions of Mosaic worldwide, AMosaic is no longer updated or supported. It has, however, been ported to the AmigaOS source compatible
AROS operating system . The developers of AMosaic went on to developIBrowse , which is still in active development today.Amiga-Only Features
AMosaic makes extensive use of Amiga Datatypes, i.e. it uses AmigaOS 3.0's DataTypes library for its external and inlined image decoding. This means that AMosaic can decode any image for which the user has a DataType installed. For example, users would simply have installed a
GIF datatype to view any GIF on the web. AMosaic operates similarly for other image and music file types such asJPEG images,MIDI modules, and so on.External links
* [http://rachael.dyndns.org/amosaic/home.html Old Homepage of AMosaic]
* [http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/amiga.amosaic-faq/msg00000.html AMosaic FAQ]
* [http://ftp.actrix.co.nz/historical/amiga/comm/net/ AMosaic 1.2 and 2.0 pre-release downloads]
* [http://aminet.net/search?query=MosaicSrc AMosaic 2.0 pre-release source code download]
* [http://www.ibrowse-dev.net/ IBrowse, the successor to AMosaic]
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