Arachne
Here is Arachne v1.97 (from 2013) running on DOSBox, a discontinued browser written in C and compiled using Borland C++ 3.1. I couldn't get it to connect to the WWW, so I had to make a local copy of the site, for some reason it changes "index.html" to "index~1.html". Very slow browser, not very fun, do say if you get it to connect to the Web.
The browser was very simple to set-up in DOSBox, all I had to do was download the latest version, put it in my c directory, exact it, and simply run "A197GPL.EXE" in DOSBox.
This is the first time that I have used a DOS-based browser, and because of that, I'm not *really* sure if it's crappy or not. The browser is kind of unique looking, what with its broken tile look to it, so I'll give it that.
Screenshots
Screenshot 1 (PNG, GIF)
Screenshot shows that the website runs fine with the web browser. If you look at the URL bar, you will see that the page is from a local copy (so on my computer, rather on the WWW), this is because I failed to connect to the Web with Arachne.
Screenshot 2 (PNG, GIF)
The webpage rendering my HTML1 guide, what is not seen is that the <xmp> tag is not recognised, so rather than some ASCII art looking like this;
<![CDATA[{O,O} {O,O}
/)_) (__(\
"" " "]]>
It instead would look something like this;
{O,O} {O,O}/)_) (__(\ "" " "
Screenshot 3 (PNG, GIF)
The browser, for DOS reasons (I think), does not show colours correctly. The image is *meant* to be an image of my lurcher-greyhound mix dog, Rue, however, the colours are *very* off. The original image can be found here.
Screenshot 4 (PNG, GIF)
Showing Part II of my HTML1 guide.
Screenshot 5 (PNG, GIF)
A nice touch is that TXT files use a dark theme with green text (like Jason Scott's textfiles.com)
Links
You can download Arachne from the following URL; http://www.glennmcc.org
You can download Arachne v1.97 from the following URLs;
owlman@protonmail.com
Last updated: 2019-10-29
