wrp
Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web (by tenox7)
cryanc
TLS for the Internet of Old Things (by classilla)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wrp
Posts with mentions or reviews of wrp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-17.
- Web Rendering Proxy – Use historical browsers with the modern web
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Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images
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The Future of the Web Is VNC
I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
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I just picked up a collection of old Macs. Which should I build a gaming PC out of?
Just like the PowerBook G3 Pismo I have, the iBook uses commonly available 18650 cells, so it's easy to rebuild the battery. With built-in AirPort antennas, you can add an AirPort card and get WiFi (has to be Wireless B though, and sometimes there are issues with encryption so you usually have to run an open access point to connect). Now this is the crazy part, but you can run Web Rendering Proxy on a Raspberry Pi or other, more powerful machine, then use an old browser like Internet Explorer to browse the web. It mostly works, and it's a pretty fun way to get some strange looks in the coffee shop.
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Working graphical HTML browser on AXP?
Depending on what you're trying to do, you can use a "vintage" web browser and something like Web Rendering Proxy to make the page work.
- Connect to internet
- A buddy gave me his 2011 MBP to upgrade for him, so I stuck in an SSD and 8gb RAM, and with the help of Opencore Legacy Patcher, I got Ventura running great on it! If you have an old Mac, I would really recommend doing this, they still have a lot of life left in them!
- WRP – Web Rendering Proxy
- 16 bit Netscape Navigator for Windows 3.1 still can browse the web
- Getting the printer going didn’t even compare with trying to get on the internet. Win95 and IE 5.5
cryanc
Posts with mentions or reviews of cryanc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.
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Mastodon for Apple II
According to people at CryptoAncienne (https://github.com/classilla/cryanc), a 25MHz 68030 needs about 22 seconds of maths to handshake a modern TLS server. During that time, most servers close connection.
So on an 1MHz 6502, I think it'd be minutes just for handshaking.
- Macstodon: A Basic Mastodon Client for Classic Mac OS
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Connect to internet
CryAnc - proxy you can run on the same (old) machine. Pairs nicely with Classilla
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Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
Take a look at crypto ancienne, a modern TLS library for less modern compilers.
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Cy384/ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7/8/9
It's the encryption. For Crypto Ancienne, it may take 20 or more seconds for a cacheless 25MHz '030 to do a local TLS 1.2 transaction, and that's with skipping a whole bunch of steps. Pretty much anything under 40MHz will have timeouts because most servers won't wait.
https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wrp and cryanc you can also consider the following projects:
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!
Retro68 - a gcc-based cross-compiler for classic 68K and PPC Macintoshes
browservice - Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
webone - HTTP 1.x proxy that makes old web browsers usable again in the Web 2.0 world.
macstodon - A basic Mastodon client for Classic Mac OS
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
docker-qemu-reactos - A Docker image for the ReactOS operating system.
ip65 - IP65 - a TCP/IP stack for 6502 based computers
wrp - Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web
carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)