internet

[mark]

can atari computers connect to the internet? i have an 800, would that do it?

 

besides games what do you do with your atari computs? i play games.

[+davidcalgary29]

You should be able to do that. I know several local guys who have souped-up their C64s (but not radically so), and use a non-graphical browser for web 'surfing.

[ndary]

there is a non graphic html viewer utility.. but it currently only works off line..

 

here are some links for this topic

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~atari8bit/ice.htm

 

http://kl.net/atari/

 

nir

[jon-paul]

Not Directly

 

Can be done via a PC or a direct dial to a unix shell system using a terminal emulator.

 

You can proberbly set up an old PC as a shell system running 'Lynx' or some such text only web-browser. Connect the PC to the internet, and 'dail in' on the PC with the Atari via an SIO2PC or modem cabel

 

You could do e-mail the same way using Pine or a simmilar text based e-mail system.

[Curt Vendel]

Atari Ethernet Cartridge project:

 

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atari_ethercart

 

 

 

Curt

[billkendrick]

If your ISP provides shell access (e.g., to a Unix or Linux server), you can log in via their modem pool. You won't be using PPP, but just plain ASCII text (like telnet'ing into the shell). From there you can presumably run a text-based e-mail client (like PINE or Mutt), news reader (like Tin or SLRN) and web browser (like Links or Lynx). You can also get files via FTP (using command-like FTP like NCFTP on the shell), and then download them to your Atari using X-, Y- (or even Z-) modem.

 

BobTerm, Ice-T and FlickerTerm80 are some good programs to check into.

 

Find them at XL Search