Pocket Gopher
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How  do  you read  gopher  posts  on  your  favorite pocked  device?  I
(sometimes)  use the  BQ Aquaris  E4.5 phone  (with the  UbPorts/Ubuntu
Touch) which  has a ge,ini/gopher  client. It's somewhat slower  but it
mostly works.


On the Palm  devices (on the Centro  when it was usable  battery and on
the Palm T|W) I used the WWW  browser with a proxy. It wasn't ideal but
it worked.

But now there  is a native solution! Cameron Kaiser  (yes, the same who
made the TenFourFox)  made - or rather finished -  its Palm client [1].
It's  written  in  Lua  language (Cameron  also  maintains  the  plua2c
cross-compiler). The complete story is available here [2].

As  I have  no  other  Palm device  with  wireless Internet  connection
(without necessity to  use a cable) I have tried  to use the Handspring
Treo 180. We still  have working GPRS here so I  am in better situation
than the Cameron (see [2]for more informations).

And it  works as expected! Some  gopher pages [3] initiate  the "out of
memory" state but it was expected. The rest work well.

So, finally, I can have a Gopher device in my pocket!


References:

[1] https://github.com/classilla/overbitepalm
[2] https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/05/gopher-on-palm-pilot-and-pitfalls-of.html
[3] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/jirka/Phlog/

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