Finale web cruiser browser

[redblade]

Hi.

I just saw a advert here on the last page of this .pdf https://mirror.thelifeofkenneth.com/...r_Issue_10.pdf.

Any more info on this app?

Thanks

[Magic]

It looks to me like that ad is in a magazine from OCT/NOV 1997.

[gulliver]

It was just an old rebranded version of the Voyager web browser. It was rebranded by Finale Development to include it in a suite along with Final Data, Final Calc, etc.

It would be much better to get the last version of Voyager instead:

https://zapek.com/software/voyager/

[idrougge]

That's not at all what I remember. Finale had nothing to do with Softwood's "Final" products.

Finale had made a well-liked and advanced Usenet News reader called New York, and I think Web Cruiser was a development of their own – there might even have been screenshots on their old homepage.

Note that it claims a ClassAct interface, which Voyager does not have (based on MUI).

[James]

Originally Posted by idrougge

there might even have been screenshots on their old homepage.

There is, and it also states there that development was suspended.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990117...ser/index.html

[Matt_H]

There was a lot of hype and excitement surrounding it way back when, but it was never released. idrougge is correct that it had nothing to do with Softwood and the Final x series of programs (unless a dealer was advertising them together). Different dev teams.

[gulliver]

Originally Posted by idrougge

That's not at all what I remember. Finale had nothing to do with Softwood's "Final" products.

Finale had made a well-liked and advanced Usenet News reader called New York, and I think Web Cruiser was a development of their own – there might even have been screenshots on their old homepage.

Note that it claims a ClassAct interface, which Voyager does not have (based on MUI).

Well, you could certainly be right, as it was so long ago that maybe I am getting mixed up.

But, are you sure it was not another rebranded browser (maybe Aweb)?

[idrougge]

Yes, I'm quite sure.

[redblade]

Thanks guys. It was the first time I had heard of that browser. I've used Ibrowse and have heard of AWeb, Voyager, AMosaic, Amiga lynx.

I thought there might have been a demo or beta released.

[gdonner]

It was listed in the August/September 1997 Issue 9 of "The Informer" magazine) Web Cruiser actually had a price attached of $44.95 (see below image, top left corner), which certainly seems to indicate it was complete enough to sell:

[Matt_H]

Originally Posted by gdonner

It was listed in the August/September 1997 Issue 9 of "The Informer" magazine) Web Cruiser actually had a price attached of $44.95 (see below image, top left corner), which certainly seems to indicate it was complete enough to sell:

This is a case of marketing getting ahead of product development. The team probably thought the product would be ready (or darn close) by the time the ad ran, but it wasn't.


I was following development of this browser fairly closely back then... it was never finished.