Arachne DOS browser — something I always wanted to get working but never could way back in the day. Pure DOS networking was just too much of a pain. Here I used Oracle VirtualBox with an unofficial FreeDOS which has all the networking stuff on the disk image already. I just had to edit two files (putting in my IP and stuff) and it worked instantly.

Arachne DOS browser — something I always wanted to get working but never could way back in the day. Pure DOS networking was just too much of a pain. Here I used Oracle VirtualBox with an unofficial FreeDOS which has all the networking stuff on the disk image already. I just had to edit two files (putting in my IP and stuff) and it worked instantly.

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I did this just a few minutes ago. These are both Windows ports of two classic text mode browsers: Links and ELinks. This is the one that was in all the public libraries back in the 90s.

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