How to use a DOS PC for web, email, twitter, chat and more #DOScember
Channel: Al's Geek Lab
Date: 2020-12-06

Ever wanted to get your DOS computer online with 'modern' day Internet apps?
In this video I show you how to set up networking and showcase some of the ways to get apps such as IRC, FTP and use telnetd on a Linux box to give you email, twitter, reddit, rss, video 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.


Note that this is a cut-down edited version of a video I did in April 2020. If you want full details on terminology, ways to get initially set up and also troubleshooting tips, then you can view that: https://youtu.be/q0qGq3SpDt0


0:00 Introduction
2:22 Why would I want to do this? / Intro to mTCP
3:54 The 10 steps: 
5:20 1. Compatible network cards
6:03 2. Install network card
8:40 3. Download network packet driver
9:20 4. mTCP software
12:22 5. Copy packet drivers etc
13:50 6. Configure packet driver
14:40 7. Configure mTCP
17:27 8. Get an IP address
18:47 Troubleshooting?
19:00 9. Quick batch file for startup
19:30 10. Have Fun!
19:34 FTP Server (ftpsrv)
22:09 FTP client (ftp)
22:22 IRC chat
22:59 Dos native web browsing

25:07 Telnet
25:18 Telnetting to a BBS

26:23 telnetd on a Linux Raspberry Pi
26:40 elinks web browsing
27:14 email with Mutt / Pine
27:26 oystter twitter client, rainbowstream
27:38 reddit, rtv, facebook
27:51 other handy apps, like instant messenger
29:07 setting up telnetd on your linux box
31:00 Really important info

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-interli...

Interlink download:
http://www.pcxt-micro.com/download/in...

...or File Maven for DOS 
http://www.briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm

Using Linux to make a PPP connection (arguably easier than using Windows 10!)
https://medium.com/swlh/connecting-a-...

Setting up PPP connections in Windows 10
https://ig8g.com/out/utilities/PPP/PP...

Virtualbox MS-DOS disk images:
http://virtualdiskimages.weebly.com/v... 

The telnet BBS guide: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

FileZilla FTP Client for Windows:
https://filezilla-project.org/

How to enable Telnetd on ArchLinux:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...

How to enable telnetd on Ubuntu Server:
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-ins...

How to enable telnetd on RHEL/CentOS:
https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-r...


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