Editing AMosaic

{{Short description|Web browser port for Amiga computers}}
{{Infobox Software
| name       = AMosaic
| logo       = Amosaic-logo.gif
| screenshot = Amosaic-screenshot.gif
| caption    = AMosaic 1.1 screenshot
| developer  = Michael Fischer, Michael Meyer, [[Michael Witbrock]]
| released   = {{Start date and age|1993|12|25}}
| latest release version = 2.0 pre-release
| discontinued = yes
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating_system = [[AmigaOS]]
| platform   = [[Amiga]]
| genre      = [[Web browser]]
| website    = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105221936if_/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/ |date=January 5 2020 |title=www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/}}
}}
'''AMosaic''' was a [[porting|port]] to the [[Amiga]] of the [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] [[web browser]], developed beginning in 1993,<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/StatusOld.html |title=Mosaic Revision History (Old) |first=Michael |last=Fischer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714081346/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/StatusOld.html |archive-date=14 July 2011 |access-date=7 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga. AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]] or [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications|NCSA]]. It was developed by Michael Fischer at [[Stony Brook University]],<ref name="wwwunleashed">{{cite book|last1=December|first1=John|year=1994|last2=Randall|first2=Neil|page=258f|title=World Wide Web Unleashed|publisher=Sams Publishing|isbn=978-0-672-30617-4}}</ref> Michael Meyer at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and [[Michael Witbrock]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].

== Amiga-only features ==
At the time of its launch, AMosaic offered several features beyond the capabilities of Mosaic, thanks to the unique capabilities of the [[AmigaOS]] and existing support libraries.

The [[Magic User Interface]] (MUI) system used to construct the [[user interface]] enabled user full user-customization of fonts, colors, and background patterns.<ref name="wwwunleashed" /><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/intro.html |title=Introduction |first=Michael |last=Fischer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000828/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/intro.html |archive-date=9 March 2012 |access-date=2 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

AMosaic makes use of AmigaOS [[Amiga support and maintenance software#Data/file types|Datatypes]] for its external and inline image decoding,<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/datatypes.html |title=The AmigaOS Datatypes System |first=Michael |last=Fischer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000908/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/datatypes.html |archive-date=9 March 2012 |access-date=2 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> making it simple for users to extend the list of supported image types by installing the appropriate operating system plugin.

An [[ARexx]] inter-application communication interface was built into AMosaic,<ref name="wwwunleashed" /><ref>{{citation |url=http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/rexx.html |title=The Rexx Interface in Amiga Mosaic |first=Michael |last=Fischer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309000917/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/rexx.html |archive-date=9 March 2012 |access-date=2 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> allowing simple scripting and transferring of data between AMosaic and other software. Using ARexx, users can write external scripts to ask AMosaic to retrieve a page and return it in [[ASCII]] format, or AMosaic can execute a script calling an external bookmark tracking program.

Uses the [[Amiga#Networking|networking software]] DNet, AmiTCP 3.0b2, or AS225r2.

== Publicity ==   
AMosaic was featured as the cover story in the March, 1995 issue of ''[[Amiga World]]'' magazine.<ref>[http://amr.abime.net/issue_1537 Amiga World Volume 11 No 3 (March 1995) - Amiga Magazine Rack]</ref>

The original developers, Michael Fischer, Michael Meyer, and [[Michael Witbrock]], co-wrote ''User Extensibility in Amiga Mosaic'', which was presented by [[Michael Witbrock]] at the Second International World Wide Web Conference in Chicago, Illinois, October 17–20, 1994.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fischer |first1=Michael |last2=Meyer |first2=Michael |last3=Witbrock |first3=Michael |title=User Extensibility in Amiga Mosaic |url=https://thewebconf.org/www2/Proceedings/DDay/witbrock/amosaic/index.html |access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>

== System requirements ==
* AmigaOS 2.0 or greater<ref name="mf_inst">{{cite web |title=Installing Amiga Mosaic |url=http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/Installation.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911042222/http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic/Installation.html |archive-date=11 September 2013 |access-date=7 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* AmiTCP 3.0 beta 2 or AS225 Release 2, or DNET<ref name="mf_inst"/>
* [[Magic User Interface]] (MUI) 3.8<ref name="mf_inst"/>
* [[Workbench (AmigaOS)|Workbench]] 3 users need the ZGIF DataType to decode inlined GIF images<ref name="mf_inst"/>   

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Portal|Amiga}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041029212209if_/http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/amiga.amosaic-faq/msg00000.html AMosaic FAQ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927122332if_/http://ftp.actrix.co.nz/historical/amiga/comm/net/ AMosaic 1.2 and 2.0 pre-release downloads]
* [http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/MosaicSrc AMosaic 2.0 pre-release source code download]

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