Surprisingly, many of these programs are easily available and relatively inexpensive. If you know how to ftp, the following are several sites where the software programs are stored and can be obtained through anonymous ftp. You may find that some of the archived software programs are the simplest versions which lack some of the important features. After all, this is a marketplace. You may have to contact the author of a particular product, negotiate, and pay a fee for the better versions.
Some software programs are for sale in the marketplace.
To purchase Chinese software in the marketplace, you may have to find a vendor specializing in Chinese computing. At the end of this FAQ, a more extensive list of suggested ftp and WWW sites is included for your reference. Since Netscape and Mosiac are similar tools and Netscape is more popular, we use only Netscape to illustrate how to get the job done. To view Chinese under Netscape, you need to run Netscape under a Chinese system which can be launched from Windows. If you can get on the WWW with Netscape, the web sites listed below will lead you to the appropriate places where these Chinese systems are archived.