I have a question (again) about arachne / CGA - See summary of thread below
After trying it on my (colour!) 486 as well as the mono 286 laptop, I find I
still have the same problem, ie disappearing , non-clickable icons where I
know they should be. This *includes* the back & forward buttons for
navigation .... then everything returns to normal on setting to VGA (back on
the 486 now).
What I am thinking is that the icons *as supplied* with arachne may not be
visible under mono-CGA conditions, and I wondered if any other alternatives
to the 'seriously-looking' icons below
are available - perhaps a very early version of arachne has less 'colourful'
ones?
This looks like I may need an apm - anybody have suggestions?
.....Previously, I said, in relation to using arachne in CGA (on or about
10/7/2000) :
>> Completely at the other end of the spectrum, I fished a 286 Toshiba
>> laptop out of a skip a few months ago...960K ram, CGA (mono) screen,
>> 20Mb HDD. Thought to trial arachne on it with a working 14k modem from
>> the same skip.
Then:
>I have the same problem as Kali - thought at first it was the arachne
>page options for colour (ie probably displaying pale blue on gray, on a
>B&W machine). Turned images OFF. After navigating through the options
>(with an open copy on my desktop machine as a guide) I found - images
>sometimes tagged as 'IMAGE' but sometimes the placeholder was missing
>altogether. I can confirm the icons weren't clickable, tho' I got some
>config done by guesswork!
I also read this...
> A1: You will need to download the "Office" APM file.
> http://browser.arachne.cz/apm/office.apm contains
> the "serious look and feel" items.
> (including the "uncarved" or "serious" buttons)
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