Browsy - A browser for System 6

[Alex]

I am posting this for anyone who might be interested in a browser for System 6.

 

[jack]

Cool beans! Belongs in software section?

 

[TechEdison]

Did you make this?

 

[Scott Baret]

This is awesome! Now I have to put that Ethernet card in my SE to try it out!

 

[mactjaap]

We have been talking about Browsy before. It is around from around 2014. Nice software, but only shows pages in HTML. 

Do a search on our forum for Browsy and you will find more postings. 

 

[xboxown]

Can this work on Apple //gs?

 

[Johnnya101]

Nope, system 6 as in Mac OS 6

Isnt there a browser already? Forget the name...

 

[ants]

If you're a software dev, what's particularly cool about Browsy is that it's compiled using Retro68. In other words, the entire app was written and compiled using gcc on a modern-day Mac, PC or Linux box.

 

[werdna]

...this thing has been around since 2014? Geez. I spent a lot of time earlier this year getting back into the hobby and I feel like I googled system 6 browser a million times and searched for information wherever I could but couldn't seem to find anything other then MacWWW. And now all of a sudden I notice that thread about Browser6 (which it seems never got developed very far and god knows if there's a copy publicly available ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) and I'm hearing about Browsy.

I'm not very religious, but it's like there's a magic man in the sky that said "ok, it's time to let werdna know about all the system 6 browsers now."

I've been thinking about writing apps for compact macs sooner or later; Retro68 might be very useful.