#108593 - Royal_kjell - Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:17 am
Not sure if this is the correct forum, but I'm new to this so I can only try.
I'm looking for a browser that I can use on a GBA. I know that the Opera browser work on DS but have not found any info regarding a browser for the GBA. Any help is highly appreciated.
#108594 - tepples - Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:27 am
The GBA has 256 KB of main RAM. That's not enough to store a lot of HTML pages, let alone pages with images.
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#108596 - Royal_kjell - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:01 am
I know the memory limitation, but if I can work around this limitation, can I use the DS browser?
#108598 - keldon - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:08 am
No. This is the wrong place, it can't be done, and what would/could you browse on/with your GBA exactly!!!
#108612 - Royal_kjell - Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:59 pm
Any change that you can guide me to the right place?
#108613 - Royal_kjell - Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:01 pm
Sorry, forgot to answer your questions.
I can use it for Internet, music, sms, video, mail andgames
#108614 - Sausage Boy - Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:35 pm
And exactly how did you picture connecting to the internet?
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#108634 - tepples - Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:21 pm
Doesn't the GBA's serial port have a UART mode? Wouldn't it take just a simple level shifter to connect the GBA to an external 56K modem capable of dialing the Internet?
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#108636 - Dwedit - Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:13 pm
Reminds me of Telnet 83, for the TI83.
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#108655 - poslundc - Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:57 pm
| Royal_kjell wrote: |
| I know the memory limitation, but if I can work around this limitation, can I use the DS browser? |
The difference between the DS and the GBA is more than just memory (and network capability, as has already been mentioned). It's also processor speed, graphics hardware, input controls (no touch screen on the GBA, among other things).
I don't suppose the web-browser is a non-starter (after all, they have text-only browsers on cell phones), but it's pretty out there.
Dan.
#108658 - keldon - Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:47 am
| Royal_kjell wrote: |
| Any change that you can guide me to the right place? |
There is no "right place". It will never happen. Nobody is going to create a browser for the GBA that you can use. And are you truly serious - sounds more like you're just trying to bring up a pointless topic to me.
#109082 - Edelnutte - Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:57 pm
I agree with keldon but it would be fun to be able to load certain data from the internet to the GBA
#109096 - Ant6n - Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:59 am
...like pdf. reading on a gameboy seems like a really odd idea though
maybe i'd make more sense if the gameboy could show pictures from a camera if one has a supercard or similar
#109116 - tepples - Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:02 am
| Ant6n wrote: |
| maybe i'd make more sense if the gameboy could show pictures from a camera if one has a supercard or similar |
My GBA Movie Player v2 CF can already do this.
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#109130 - Ant6n - Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:08 am
well i be dammed, people are always faster than me
#109551 - dantheman - Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:50 am
Being able to view HTML files on the GBA might be handy however. It wouldn't need to support more than just basic HTML tags to be useful. There are a few text and pictures viewers for the GBA that support importing HTML (like Readboy), but from what I can tell they only support the title tag and line breaks. No bold, italicize, underline, font size or color, etc.