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I agree with that, but then I tried the setup, and i found it was straightforward. playing with it gives you a sense of mastery (even if small), is satisfying,
by keepamovin 1y ago
I agree with that, but then I tried the setup, and i found it was straightforward.
playing with it gives you a sense of mastery (even if small), is satisfying, and may be the necessary "training" to get used to using/installing/configuring the full windows 98.
How is it even doing this? A full DOS/Windows 9x environment—running on an M1 Mac?? On so many architectures and OSes? With a ton of options, yet somehow everything just works—games, operating systems, all of it. Like a time machine you can configure. Seriously cool
i got windows 98 networking working (on macos needs sudo dosbox-x) and browsed google from ie 5. most websites will not work (due to TLS/cipher mismatch).
i want to write a very thin, old JS client for BrowserBox to let you connect to bbx running on local network so that old OS like this can browse the modern web.
- anthk 1y agoRetrozilla will work with the TLS settings at about:config. Search DDG/GG. ALso, gopher runs fine: gopher://magical.fish HN, read only over gopher: gopher://magical.fish
- keepamovin 1y agoHere's a very early version of browsing the modern web from IE6 in Win 98 SE: https://imgur.com/gallery/browserbox-enabling-secure-access-to-modern-web-from-ie6-windows-98-m89wpvy https://imgur.com/gallery/browserbox-enabling-secure-access-...
- anthk 1y agoRetrozilla in not IE. You can get it from http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/retrozilla-2.2.en-US.win32.installer.exe http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/retrozilla-2.2.en-US.... Also: gopher://magical.fish There's a TLS 1.3 fix for Rzilla too: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177106-running-windows-98-in-2020-and-beyond/page/15/#comment-1174993 https://msfn.org/board/topic/177106-running-windows-98-in-20...
- keepamovin 1y agoNice! I guess the RBI Bridge is a solution for environments that cannot or are not permitted to install this kind of software.
- keepamovin 1y agoI just checked out the RZilla project, and while it's cool, it's support for modern web is limited and it's insecure (https://rn10950.github.io/RetroZillaWeb/ https://rn10950.github.io/RetroZillaWeb/) Making it unsuitable for the types of secure use cases I envisage with this.