Arachne local homepage

Operating system ? Why ? Use Arachne WWW browser instead ! :-)

If you are offline, you can use the buttons above to navigate local Arachne Web. Some other links in this document are working only if you are connected to Internet. Most important online link for you is Arachne homepage on Internet, where you can get the latest version of Arachne.

Author of the Arachne WWW browser (me):

xChaos software (CZ)
Michael Polak (AKA xChaos) is student of informatics, computer freak and rock musician from Prague, Czech Republic, Europe. Author of most of the code (including HTML rendering and xSwap (TM) memory manager) and of all documentaion. Designer of user interface (including all animations, icons and the "error message skull" ;) Owner of the software house, xChaos software, which can on demand develop any Internet application - from WWW browser to professional CGI script for online shopping. xChaos software is oriented mainly on programming for advanced platforms which will in 21st century replace 80's and 90's world of PC's with Micro$oft software: Un*x servers, Network comuputers, WWW, Java, artifical intelligence. e-Mail: xchaos@main.naf.cz

Arachne is partly based on work of following companies and individuals:

IBASE group (CZ)
- Ing. Ivan Polak - color palette optimization
- Ing. Zdenek Harovnik - X_LOPIF graphics library for DOS, XMS management
- Ing. Jan Vlaciha - XMS management
IBASE is powerful database capable of keeping multimedial data, which has currently been ported to Unix (Linux) and can output data stored on server to the World Wide Web (via CGI).
University of Waterloo (Canada)
WatTcp - public domain TCP/IP library for DOS
Merit Networks (USA)
PPP.EXE - public domain PPP dialer for DOS, see details.
Independent JPEG group (USA)
DJPEG.EXE - public domain convertor of JPEGs to GIFs, see details.
Jan Patera (CZ)
JPNG2BMP - fast decompression of JPEGs and PNGs to truecolor bitmaps.
Bill Neisius (USA)
PLANY.EXE - public domain sound player, see details.
Clarkson University, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (USA)
TELNET.EXE (CUTE) and FTP.EXE - public domain telnet and ftp programs.
David Colston (USA)
PLANY.EXE, WELCOME.WAV and DJPEG.EXE files included in Arachne package originaly appeared in his Net-tamer package. I included the original documentation.

Notes:
LZW algorithm in GIF files is implemented in IBASE group graphics library X_LOPIF since 1992.
Arachne was written in C language and compiled using Borland C++ 3.1 compiler. It was compiled, linked, debugged and tested on my noname computer, which don't exceeds minimal configuration: 386DX/40, 8 MB, 600 MB HDD, Trident 512 kB SVGA, 14" color monitor, 14400 noname faxmodem, DOS, Desqview.

In Greek language, Arachne means spider. According to ancient Greek legend, Arachne was a name of woman, who was punished by gods - they turned her into a spider.