Amiga Internet and Communications Software - World Wide Web

World Wide Web

Almost all these programs are recent and available mainly for new Amiga platforms.

• Amiga TCP/IP: AmiTCP, EasyNet, Genesis, Miami and Miami Deluxe, Roadshow for AmigaOS, MosNet and NetStack for MorphOS (both based on AmiTCP).
• Amiga AMP: Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (scripting languages) solution stack AAMP.
• Browsers:
• Old browsers or "text only" based ones:
  • Amiga Mosaic, Amiga Lynx, Emacs/W3 WWW client in GNU Emacs.
• Modern browsers up to HTML 3.2 without CSS:
  • IBrowse, Voyager, AWeb, and also Amaya through the X11 Amiga compatibility graphic engine library Cygnix.
• Actual Browsers with HTML 4.0 and CSS:
  • OWB Origyn Web Browser is the de facto modern Browser for all Amiga systems. OWB for AmigaOS 4 and Classic Amigas (OS 3.9) was developed by Italian Andrea Palmaté and then updated by German programmer Joerg Strohmayer. AmigaOS Classic version is 1.6 and based upon original codename version "Blastoise" (this software also integrates itself with IBrowse). Current AmigaOS 4.X version is 3.22 based upon original version codenamed "Pukapuka". Origyn Web Browser for AROS is 0.9.9. Actual MorphOS version is 1.11 (also based on "Pukapuka") and it the first version to support HTML5 media tags and through FFMpeg.
  • NetSurf for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS also through Cygnix and native.
• Released as beta:
  • Sputnik Browser for MorphOS and AmigaOS.
• In development:
  • TimberWolf: Amiga version of Shiretoko FireFox (The Alpha1 version is available for free downloading online since June 9, 2010). It is based on a porting of XUL on Amiga.

(Sputnik and OWB are based upon WebKit)

• E-mail: Thor, YAM, Simplemail, Anubis
• Newsreaders: NewsRog, MicroDot II, NewsCoaster
• Internet Radio: AmiAMP (Amiga look-alike version of Winamp), AmiNetRadio, TuneNet.
• Gopher: Gopherexx
• Proxy server: PProxy, Privoxy
• PPP: AmiPPP, Multilink PPP
• Telnet: AmTelnet
• Podcasting: AmiPodder
• Amiga RSS Feed: AmRSS
• Distributed net: DNetC
• GPS (Global Positioning System): Actually there is no Amiga software to pilot GPS devices.
• Google Services:
  • GoogleMaps: Supported through OWB Browser
  • Google Earth: Supported through OWB Browser
  • GoogleMail: Supported only in 'basic HTML' mode.
  • Google Picasa: Supported through OWB Browser on all Amiga systems or directly through WAManager (MOS) dedicated software.
  • GoogleBar Toolbar: Not supported by Amiga Browsers
• Amiga Instant Messaging and Chat: AmTalk, ACUSeeMe, AmIRC, Amiga Jabberwocky multistandard Instant Messaging based on Jabber Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, Epistula Instant Messaging, SabreMSN, MomosIRC, AmiGG, GadAmi based on popular Gadu gadu and Tlen polish instant messaging services, WookieChat, climm, Bitlbee
• Twitter: AmiTwitter for AmigaOS Classic, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS.
• Voice Calls, Voice Chat, VoIP and Internet Phone Services:
  • Messenger Voice Chat: Not supported
  • Skype VoIP: Not supported
  • H.323 VoIP Protocol: Not supported
  • Amiga Voice Calls: It has been reported of AmTalk supporting voice calls between two Amiga running that program, but this feature it is unconfirmed.
• FTP: ATC (Amiga Trading Centre), Amiga wget, AmFTP, AmiFTP, GUI-FTP, HTTPResume, Charon, CManager, FTPMount (mounts remote FTP as standard Amiga devices), Pete's FTP (PFTP).
• FTP Server: Amiga RC-FTPd, AmiFTPd
• Weather casting news: Amiga WET, Weather Experience, Wetter.
• Live Webcam supporting: AmiWebView, WebVision, WebCam
  • Amiga USB Webcam Driver: Personal Webcam, Amiga Sonix webcam driver for various models of USB webcams
• Clock Synchronization: FACTS
• SMS Short Messages: TaskiSMS
• Web development & HTTP Server: Apache for Amiga, Apache PHP, Thttpd, Thttpd PHP, WebMaker HTML editor, Ami.HTML Webscape
• Peer2Peer: Amiga Mule, Transmission, enqueueTorrent BitTorrent, Bourriquet, BeeHive, CTorrent, AmiGift, EDonkey, mlDonkey
• VCast, Online VCR: otrMUI for MorphOS by Thomas Igracki
• Youtube: On AmigaOS and MorphOS there are various clients or downloaders for Youtube all based upon scripts made by ARexx language. These scripts spare some functions from existing Amiga programs like wget and MPlayer and join them in a big meta-application utility able to handle Youtube animations: youtube downloader.rexx from Fabien Coeurjoly, ib youtube.rexx by Ferrón Garcìa loading youtube movies into Amiga browser IBrowse, getvideo.rexx by Jürgen Lucas, and Youtube client TubeXX by Paolo Germano, Flayer ARexx script by Amiga programmer Robert Williams.
• Flash player: Amiga SWFPlayer
• Monitoring webpages: Seventhsense
• Remote Desktop: TwinVNC, VNCServer, MorphVNC
• Pretty Good Privacy: PGP 2.6.3i by Robert Knop and Joerg Strohmayer
• SSL, SSH: AmiSSL, Amiga OpenSSL, Amiga OpenSSH, SSHCON
• Web Album Photo Sharing Services: WAManager (for MorphOS) handles Google Picasa web album service.
• Other: Sniffy, Net Tools (net ping, resolve, traceroute, etc.), Gallerius (generator of HTML galleries)