[request][retro] Gemini clients for windows 95, DOS, etc

[Luke Crook]

A Gemini client running on old ebook hardware - like a Kindle - would be
great.


On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:59 PM raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:56:32 +0000 (UTC)
> Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a sort of continuation of a prior thread I had made about the
> > least powerful hardware that could use Gemini.
> >
> > I honestly feel bad about this as I have neither real hardware of the
> > era, nor do I have coding experience. However in theory Gemini would
> > be great for retro enthusiasts as it would give them something
> > compsritovely resource light while also being actively worked on.
> >
> > Projects like The Old Web exist, and frankly make me smile as it
> > gives old hardware a way to Web, or at least explore the web that
> > was, somewhat natively. However I feel trying to force Big Web on
> > such old machines is 'solving' the square peg round hole problem with
> > a sledgehammer.
> >
> > Problem is while gopher roots would hint at the audiance here has a
> > higher than average number of retro enthusiasts there is no gurentee
> > at anyone caring to see what, say, Lagrange can be ported to.
> >
> > I also have another thought for devices that can't natively do tls
> > involving both a client, and a pi zero, or Arduino, or even something
> > built into that wifi to serial port device (forget the name but that
> > is just so danged handy to have if you retro.) To handle the security
> > bits so that those older devices can join in on the fun.
> >
> > Let the web demand more and more resources. Give old platforms as
> > well as new access to Gemini.
> >
> > I just... Don't know if anyone here is actually interested in Doing
> > The Thing. I just think it'd be neat and would get coverage by people
> > like Micheal mjd, lgr, etc alongside.
>
> I have some old Windows PDAs that could use a Gemini client and a 32
> bit Windows 7 dev machine. I was trying to get the last version of Qt
> that supported Windows CE running on that machine, but I didn't get far.
> There were also no readily available pre-built clients for 32 bit
> Windows 7 that I could find.
>