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This article is a split of main article Amiga software and refers to any communication and internet software that run on Amiga line of computers.

See also related articles Amiga productivity software, Amiga music software, Amiga programming languages, Amiga support and maintenance software for other information regarding software that run on Amiga.

Modem, Direct Connect, BBS managing, Fidonet, Packet Radio

Prestel, Videotel, Videotex, Minitel

In some European countries, and especially in France, Minitel data transmitting services were very popular before the rise of Internet. Minitel started the phenomenon of chatting, exchange mail, providing on-line services such as railways or TV broadcast timetables, travel and hotel booking, etcetera. Minitel used little terminals rented from telephone companies or computers with modems that accept Minitel transmission protocol speed. The speed was asynchronous at 1200/75 baud (1200 baud receiving, 75 baud transmitting). There were made Amiga Minitel communication programs in France, Germany and Italy. In Italy it was released Amiga Videotel.

Teletext, Televideo, Viewdata

Teletext is an information retrieval service system based on transmitting data with normal TV broadcast signals and showing it separately, without interfering with normal TV programs. About this kind of service, on Amiga there are TV cards viewers that view Teletext pages and save them as standard image files. Standalone programs for Teletext included the Amiga Teletext program, and the datatype Videotex Datatype.

FAX, Answering Machine and Voice Mail

AFax, Amiga-FAX, GPFax, FaxQuik, STFax, TrapFax, AVM, MultiAnswer, Zyxel Voice Mail

ISDN

ISDN digital telephone and circuit-switched telephone network system were supported via the expansion cards ISDN Master and ISDN Master II, their drivers and related software.

Networking and Ethernet protocols

Depending from the hardware cards and their drivers and software, Amiga supported SANA-II protocols, Envoy protocols from IAM, AS225, AS225r2 TCP-IP from Commodore, DECnet, Novell Netware through Amiga Client for Novell Netware, Quicknet fast proprietary peer to peer procol, Appletalk through emulators. Other network protocols available were AmigaUUCP, DNET, Link-It and Enlan-DFS. Amiga currently supports also Samba, and SMBFS.

World Wide Web

Almost all these programs are recent and available mainly for new Amiga platforms.

(Sputnik and OWB are based upon WebKit)

Communication Protocols

Skypix is the name of a communication protocol born on Amiga. It could be considered one of the very first (or even the real first) modern interactive online graphics-and-sound protocol.,[5] as it was introduced in 1987 as part of the Skyline (Atredes) BBS System, running on the program Skyline BBS and Skyterm terminal for the Amiga system. Years before the World Wide Web, Skypix allowed rich interactive graphics and sound, as well as mouse control, to be a part of the online experience, which was until then limited to text and ANSI graphics. Skypix allowed users the ability to write graphical programs and link them into the system, as well as the first "authoring program", Skypaint. Skypix created a large worldwide group of enthusiastic game and online application writers years before the World Wide Web made such features a common part of the online experience. It was quickly abandoned as long as new, more advanced, markup languages for BBS were available and due to the emerging of Internet phenomenon that marginalized the BBS system of communication.

References

  1. ^ (A more comprehensive list about Amiga based BBS Management Software is available at Wikipedia article List_of_BBS_software, in the Amiga section.)
  2. ^ Joerg Strohmayer (May 24, 2009). "Latest OS3 version". Retrieved February 14, 2011.
  3. ^ "Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS". Fabian Coeurjoly. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
  4. ^ Thom Holwerda (March 8, 2010). "Origyn Web Browser 1.7 Supports HTML5 Media, More". OSNews. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
  5. ^ Scott Lee. "BBSDocumentary, An Overview of BBS Programs". Jason Scott for Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2005. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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