Als Geek Lab | How to use a DOS PC for web, email, twitter, IRC & more! @AlsGeekLab | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
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
crynwr.com/drivers

Network Drivers:
network-drivers.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...or File Maven for DOS
briggsoft.com/fmdos.htm

Using Linux to make a PPP connection (arguably easier than using Windows 10!)
medium.com/swlh/connecting-a-286-dos-pc-to-the-internet-through-a-serial-connection-in-2019-b93a422ff094

Setting up PPP connections in Windows 10
ig8g.com/out/utilities/PPP/PPPWindows10SetupNotes_RevA.pdf

Virtualbox MS-DOS disk images:
virtualdiskimages.weebly.com/virtualbox.html

The telnet BBS guide: telnetbbsguide.com

FileZilla FTP Client for Windows:
filezilla-project.org

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

How to enable telnetd on Ubuntu Server:
howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-use-telnet-on-ubuntu-1804

How to enable telnetd on RHEL/CentOS:
thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-how-to-install-and-configure-telnet