How to use a DOS PC for web, email, twitter, IRC & more!

Your pal Al again! This time on the Geek Lab, it's time to get your retro PC kicking and screaming into the 21st century. In this video I show you how to set up networking using a packet driver and mTCP. After that it's over to showcasing some of the ways to get apps such as telnetd on a Linux box to give you email, twitter, reddit, rss, video and more. Then there's the native mTCP apps such as IRC; an FTP server, an FTP client, a telnet client (for you to connect to your Linux box with) and more. Finally, there's a harkening back to the days pre-internet with BBS's. I'll show you how to connect to BBS's via telnet.

0:00 Introduction 1:03 Why would I want to do this? / Intro to mTCP 3:33 The 10 steps: 5:05 Useful terminology 8:20 1. Compatible network cards 9:22 2. Install network card 14:33 3. Download network packet driver 15:12 4. mTCP software 16:24 Telnet - using text mode web browsing, twitter, email

16:48 IRCJr Chat 17:00 HTTP Server, HTGET, Netcat, etc

18:14 5. Copy packet drivers etc 20:40 Interlnk / Intersvr, Kermit, Laplink, FileMaven, ePPPd 24:15 6. Configure packet driver 25:03 7. Configure mTCP

28:25 8. Get an IP address 29:28 Troubleshooting? 31:00 9. Quick batch file for startup

31:33 Have Fun! 31:37 FTP Server (ftpsrv) 34:33 FTP client (ftp) 34:45 IRC chat 35:20 Telnet 36:20 Connect to a BBS 38:33 telnetd on a Linux Raspberry Pi 38:53 elinks web browsing 39:26 email with Mutt / Pine 39:38 oystter twitter client, rainbowstream 39:50 reddit, rtv 40:06 cacaview, aaxine, vim, nano, cmus mp3 player, ctorrent, pidgin/finch, irssi irc, mc, amixer, iptraf, canto rss,

41:30 setting up telnetd on your linux box 43:41 DOS native apps: DosLynx browser 44:37 Arachne browser 45:05 Dillo browser 45:45 Feedback / Outro

The links from this show are:

Crynwr Packet Drivers http://crynwr.com/drivers/

Network Drivers: http://www.network-drivers.com/

Jumper settings for many cards: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/index.html

Michael Brutman's mTCP applications: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html

Fred's DOS Internet Software (DosLynx 0.43b, PMSMTP, SSHDOS etc): http://macall.net/

Original version of SSHDOS, including new SSH2 support: http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/

Alternative version of Lynx (and also curl, wget and bzip2): http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html

Net tamer dial up PPP suite including Email, Usenet, FTP, Telnet http://www.nettamer.net/tamer.html

RockIRCd - IRC Server Written in QuickBasic leetIRC - IRC chat client written in QuickBasic http://rubbermallet.org/oldindex.html

Interesting (Internet) DOS Programs https://dosprograms.info.tt/internet.htm

Transferring data with MS Interlink: http://www.pcxt-micro.com/dos-interlink.html

Interlink download: http://www.pcxt-micro.com/download/interlnk.zip

...or File Maven fo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qGq3SpDt0