Whats the oldest Netscape style web-browser on AMD64?

salimfadhley

I need to go back in time; I want to demonstrate how some newish web-sites look on some very old web-browsers. I've noticed that the ebuilds for Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator do not seem to work on AMD64, and they are probably never likely to be supported. Is there a way round this to get 'em working?

Help me travel back in time!
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Hossie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 116

Install Mozilla 1.0 Binary?

salimfadhley · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:06 am Post subject:

Mozilla 1.0 is way too new. I need something old and super-flakey ... Netscape Communicator or the absurdly obscure Netscape Gold edition. I am looking for classic netscape, form the golden age of the internet. I am trying to re-create those by-gone days.
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01mf02 · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

What's about downloading some very old distro?

salimfadhley · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:45 am Post subject:

I was thinking of that; I wanted a distro circa 1998 or 1999 - it's qute hard to find a download for truly aincient Linux as naturally nobody sets up torrents of truly aincient Linux distros.
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01mf02 · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

Or what's about that?

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OMG, if that is not too ancient for you, then I don't know ...
At least it works on AMD64 - it even displays some sites from today. Freaky.

kim_asplund · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject:

ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/

version 1 +

if im not reading things wrong version 1 is from 1993. hope it is old enough for u :wink:

kim_asplund · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

guess i did not read the post thorougly enough.. leaving the post tho .. u might use a emulator or other partitition.

(think il need to test that v1 my self;)

salimfadhley · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

Actually that was perfect. Netscape Communicator falls pretty much in my time frame which is anything before 1999. I was somewhat pleased to see that a binary compiled long before my AMD64 chip was ever invented worked fine.
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