I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated #curl to 8.13.0
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.3
- Fixed #win32 version (works on #WinXP or newer), DLLs were missing

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing the win32 version running on Win10.

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

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PowerShell window showing debug output with DOStodon on top

got Kiwix (offline Wikipedia reader) running on my 21-year-old PC running Slackware 13.37 via:

* The archive[1]. 0.10 works with 2020-07 Wikipedia but not 2023-09. They also have an updated XP build, but iirc it required SSE2 and uses JS

* Internet In a Box[2]. 3.1.2-5 is the latest without an illegal instruction error. 2025-01 Wikipedia works but the rendering is jacked up on older Firefox/SeaMonkey

[1] - https://download.kiwix.org/archive/kiwix/kiwix-xulrunner/

[2] - https://download.iiab.io/packages/kiwix/

#retrocomputing #linux #kiwix

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A photo taken of a computer displaying a Wikipedia page about Karl Marx

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A photo taken of a computer displaying a slightly-broken Wikipedia page about animals

Office of Obsolete Men. The Floppy Museum was the only site that didn’t require HTTPS. #Solaris #RetroComputing #UNIX #CDE #Firefox

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Screen displaying Solaris 10 and CDE desktop, with a Firefox browser pointing to the Floppy Museum

Look at my makeshift exhibit at #IndyClassic!

#NetBSD #retrocomputing

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A Dell Dimension 4300 running a modern web browser (BadWolf) on NetBSD.

In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s

Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii

Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

Palm OS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

#Mastodon #RetroComputing

I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 😞

So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 💗

#retrocomputing #msdos #windows #vintagecomputing #ai #lego #scifi #amiga #linux #doctorwho #drwho #startrek #starwars #space #uk #lgbtq #3dprinting #woodworking #discworld #reading

I haven't touched NetDrive in a while so I got motivated and just spent two hours adding a 1 sector read ahead cache into the code. After a read request the server sends one extra block, and the DOS side caches it. On the next read the DOS side checks the cache.

Running CHKDSK against a 200MB drive across the network to a server that is 47 milliseconds away was taking around 26.8 seconds. Now it takes 17.69 seconds.

Yep, this feature is worth doing ...

#retrocomputing #mtcp

Hello fellow #floppy fans! Through some fiddling and optimisation I've freed up about 180KB of space on http://floppy.museum and need something to fill it with.

Since my brain is pretty much empty at the moment, I would be very grateful for any ideas the Fediverse could offer. Some ground rules:

• It needs to fit in the space given (duh!)
• It needs to be relevant to floppies and/or #retrocomputing
• It can be software (yet another service), in which case it must run under #MSDOS on a 286, and should have moderate memory requirements (some EMS and XMS is OK, but at most 380KB conventional..)
• It can be art (but don't expect me to create any, so the license must permit this usage)
• Should not require modern browsers of hardware to access/enjoy

Ideas floated so far:

• Gopher server (problem: how to convert html to gopher pages; yes I've tried, no it's not easy)
• Rmenu (a telnet server allowing running of commands on the machine)
• Samantha Fox GIFs

Spread the word and give me ideas! The sillier the better!

#Retrocomputing #286 #PerformanceArt

#MonkeyIsland #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #DOS #MSDOS

I updated #mbedTLS and #curl in #DOjS. This one took a lot longer than I expected because curl dropped Makefile.mk builds and I had to switch to #CMake or #autconf.
I went with CMake, but had to work around some weird problems.

#MSDOS and #Linux build are already green again, I'll tackle #win32 later...

#RetroComputing #JavaScript

There seems to be a more recent alternative to EtherDFS now

https://github.com/jrohel/NetMount

#RetroComputing #MSDOS

I got myself a "WinBook XP". It has a Pentium (so Windows XP is off the table) and a Modem Blaster (28.8K!).

What should I subject it to? I'll probably install via floppy.

#retrocomputing

Would you like to read about another 39 year old DOS bug that I found recently? This one causes an unlucky file to get truncated if it is in the wrong spot of a FAT12 partition when you move from an early version of DOS to a later one.

Get some popcorn and enjoy!

https://www.brutman.com/Adventures_In_Code/FAT12_File_Truncation_Bug/FAT12_File_Truncation_Bug.html

#retrocomputing #DOS

Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing 😉

#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars

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OS/2 Warp Connect with four browser windows, a text mode editor editing config.sys, the parent "work area" folder and the launch pad.

I'm giddy because I found a 38 year old bug (possibly older even) in the FAT12 handling of DOS, and now I've proven the bug is real by reproducing the error. Later versions are affected too.

Time for another write-up ...

#retrocomputing #dos