The C64 OS network stack is three layers deep. A hardware driver, a packet/socket library, and a network library that coordinates these and sets up and tears down. The hardware drivers can be swapped to support different network hardware. The only driver I’ve written so far is for C64Net, a UserPort RS-232 WiFi modem, using the ZiModem firmware. I’ll be writing other drivers though. Next up is Link232 WiFi, then U64’s SwiftLink, then I’ll probably look into WIC64.

C64 OS cannot display characters in other alphabets. So, it can't display Cyrillic, or Hebrew, etc. There is a Unicode to ASCII conversion process, in which many common unicode characters get mapped to some combination of ASCII characters. For example, emoji are translated to {grimacing} or {raised_eyebrow}, etc. And many symbols get converted to something close, like © to (c) and ® to (r). For characters with accents, I have been trying to read up on how the various languages handled their accented characters when typed on, say, an old-school mechanical typewriter. I know, for example, that Esperanto's accents can alternatively be represented by either an "x" or an "h" immediately following the letter that should have an accent. But, how do the French handle their accented letters in this situation? The Spanish? I'm not sure, but I'd love to find out so I can provide a sensible mapping.

I think that what you're suggesting is more or less what it already does. Of a big article, it already breaks it down into rather small chunks, the chunks that come between the H2's and H3's, and only downloads a few paragraphs of text. When you click a heading from the table of contents it then downloads just that section. 2400 baud is just not very fast. It would be tricky to render only part of what has been downloaded while more of it is being downloaded, because the string is changing length and new memory is being allocated, etc. But don't worry, there are numerous other pieces of networking hardware for the C64 that are much faster than 2400 baud. We'll see much better results when using, say, a Link232 (@ 33.6Kbps).

Yes, in fact, I do have plans for an offline mode. Or, the ability to download and save an article either in part or in whole.

@@c64os Such a great project (your work as a whole on c64os). I don't have a system to run it on in working order at the moment but I do enjoy following with daydreams of using it in the near future.

No. Making games and making OSes and productivity software are rather different skills.

@@c64os okay

@@c64os be my fan

@@Most_BadgeUser If your I.Q. isn't as high as Gregory's, maybe YOU can make C64 games? Give it a try!

@@endwigast5212 I can't