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Dos web browsing! *PIC*

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Mucman

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2 days of digging deep in the archives of the Microsoft Disk Operating System, and I am now connected to the Net!

I even took a screen shot

I've configured my IBM Thinkpad (P100 24MB, 1G, $100cdn 🙂) with a DOS 6.0 partition (200MB) and a NetBSD partition (800MB).
Of course NetBSD networking worked right away, but I have never done Dos networking before! Man there were a few hurdles, but I
feel pretty good about what I've done 🙂
 
huh. neato. i'm thinking of firing up my 486 to play old games on. might be worth doing
 
I used to use Lynx back in the old days under DOS.... It worked great until I went to a page that depended on java.
 
Wow not bad. I've seen some DOS web browsers online, but none looked as good as that one. Whats the name of that one?
 
Scarpozzi, I was going to ditch arachne for lynx because I could never get enough conventional memory to run arachne. I got networking going by running the MS WinClient 3.0 TCP/IP, but that tood over 200K!!! I later realized that all I needed was the 3com Packet Driver. Playing around with the EMM386 settings brought back a lot of memories and I even learned a few tricks that I didn't know before 🙂. My networking knowledge of Dos has increased 100 fold 🙂

DOACleric, the site for the browser is : linky

Now I need to continue with installing all my old DOS favorites :

Master of Orion
Civilization
Colonization
Master of Magic
Doom
Out of This World
Conquered Kingdoms

I'm not going to get any homework done this semester 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Originally posted by: ElFenix
huh. neato. i'm thinking of firing up my 486 to play old games on. might be worth doing
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ugh yeah, i have an old gateway laptop 486....what can you do with it nowadays??
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You can do exactly what I setup... Does your laptop have PCMCIA slots? If not then you can also get on the
net with an external modem. A 486 has plenty of power to do lots of things. At the moment I have one running
Freesco for internet sharing (servicing 7 computers without any problems). I am going to dedicate another
486 as a caching nameserver.

The best is that people have no clue what these old computers are good for, and they usually give them away!
Heck, practically my whole home network is from donated machines 🙂.

 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Originally posted by: ElFenix
huh. neato. i'm thinking of firing up my 486 to play old games on. might be worth doing
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Scorched earth! The ultimate war game
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its all about tie fighter
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damn...i got the special pack with that, xwing, and some other star wars game for xmas last year, i prolly beat tie fighter 30 times...i was quite the addict
 
That laptop probably screams with dos on it. My P150 Thinkpad with 48 mb of ram is what I'm typing on here at work...... so slow, win98se.
 
xSauronx, I could put X-Wing and Tie-Fighter on there, but I don't have a decent joystick... I don't recall if those games played well with just the keyboard.

ChefJoe, that hardware should be fine for Win98. I had a P150 w 32M that was an Internet machine for the house. No one complained that the machine was too slow. Of course I would do a format, re-install every 2 months 🙂.
 
hmm, I tried doing something similar, then I remember that I dislike pain.

now, if I could just find a good copy of os/2 warp on cd....that's another story. (I have like 4 licenses for diskettes that are nearly all dying or dead)
 
My Digital Logic professor said that Microsoft has its name on two good operating systems: Dos and Windows XP - and it only made XP.

I liked Dosshell... with Dosshell, I never needed to upgrade to Windows 3.1 on my old 286.

I almost wouldn't mind going back
 
Originally posted by: brxndxn
My Digital Logic professor said that Microsoft has its name on two good operating systems: Dos and Windows XP - and it only made XP.

I liked Dosshell... with Dosshell, I never needed to upgrade to Windows 3.1 on my old 286.

I almost wouldn't mind going back
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I always say 2k is better than xp, but that's just my opinion.

I used to think i could live with DOSshell and win3.x. Then I realized that I'd be running in 640x480. That's just wrong nowadays. I'd feel like my computer would grow a fisher price sticker and my keyboard would smush together to make 4 big multicolor buttons.
 
Woah! now that's impressive. and brings back a lot of memories...

I used to think dosshell was about as good as it got, but then windows 3.1 / 3.11 could make anything look good!

Oh, Mucman, Xwing & Tie fighter were totally unplayable with keyboard/mouse, as far as i remember : it would take you about 20 minutes to turn around. Xwing made me buy a new joystick. Man, they were great games. I wonder if i've got enough spare parts to resurrect my old P 75 for some old gaming? (if i can remember my EMM386/himem skills!)
 
I got bored one day and hooked my 386 DX25 up to my LAN and got it online with my shared cable modem connection. Used DOS 6.22 and Arachne. My god was it slow. It took a good minute to render each site.

But now I can say I've done it! 😛
 
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