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I use a dos 6.22 based laptop for writing HTML files, and was wondering if a web-browser exists so i can check basic HTML formatting etc. before i go back and upload to my main PC.
I'm not needing something THAT up-to date just basic html tags -- although something that supports CSS would be rather usefull, I'm not expecting a dos-based CSS browser.
If anyone could drop me a line with any or all soloutions i'd appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
If one does, I'd imagine it to be all ASCII :p
Maybe try loading Win3.1 on the laptop, and finding a copy of Mosaic.
I know MS still has a Win3.1 version of IE. I don't know what version it is but it will certainly render web pages a lot better than a really old version of a web browser.
Thanks for all the advice. I'll see if i can find someone with an old copy of win 3.11 for sale. :P
There are a couple of DOS based web-browsers. Arachne & Lynx are probably the two most well known. They both require some type of third-party dialer, though (LAN connection tend to work better). Arache can display both text and graphics, while Lynx is a port of a Linux command line text only web browser.
Arache can be found here. http://arachne.browser.org/
And Lynx is here http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm
I'll only be using it to view local files. I'm DLing Archane now... hope it works. BTW nice site Cobra... Especially like the advice column :DQuote:
Originally posted by 'Cobra':
There are a couple of DOS based web-browsers. Arachne & Lynx are probably the two most well known. They both require some type of third-party dialer, though (LAN connection tend to work better). Arache can display both text and graphics, while Lynx is a port of a Linux command line text only web browser.
Arache can be found here. http://arachne.browser.org/
And Lynx is here http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm
Web browsers for DOS:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raijen
http://www.compmiscellanea.com/en/we...rs-for-dos.htm
Shra, I"m starting to believe you're a DOS/command line guru. If so I'd love to see you make a new thread with a guide to tips and tricks for using it to the fullest potential :thumbs:
Now what about a web browser for CP/M???
And while at it a TCP/IP stack for CP/M so we can use the browser????
:redeyes:
I've heard rumors that one is in development, but the team can't decide whether to support Flash, or go with HTML 5 :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by CeeBee
I reckon a DOS browser wouldnt work online!
CP/M is not a big deal. Not exactly a big deal. There are bigger ones:Quote:
Originally Posted by CeeBee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki
Not exactly. Just a little of hobbyist efforts made me run several experiments + have some discussions with other hobbyists of the question. DOS has several issues - quite dim ones for after DOS generations people. I have tried to make them less dim for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niclo Iste
It depends on what you mean by that. Surely, the capabilities of Arachne (the best web browser for DOS) can not give its user the full experience of the modern internet - lack of JavaScript support, lack of Flash support, weak CSS support, other issues. But major DOS web browsers do work online. Again links from the web site I have quoted already:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dude111
http://www.compmiscellanea.com/en/ar...p-ethernet.htm
http://www.compmiscellanea.com/en/ar...up-dial-up.htm
- Step by step and you have Arachne web browser working online. After succeeding it, all other major DOS web browsers ( http://www.compmiscellanea.com/en/we...rs-for-dos.htm ) are going to work as well. Within their capability limits surely, but they will.
Anyway, to get a DOS machine online is not really a heavy issue, there are much heavier. At least by now - life strides forward and I do not know for how much time this sort of backward compatibility is to keep up.
Its all very interesting!
It's just that developing for CP/M is like developing a high velocity, accurate discarding sabot round for the Brown Bess musket :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shra
I can't tell you how many times I've wished someone would do that! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
Hey, I have a device on my desk that does HTTP server, Web client, NTP client, has DNS support, access to a FAT file system...Quote:
Originally Posted by slgrieb
I also included a primitive form of ASP for the web server and full timezone/DST support along with automatic skew correction for the RTC...
Program: 71716 bytes (54.7% Full)
(.text + .data + .bootloader)
Data: 12981 bytes (79.2% Full)
Back in '83 I had a Zorba!
http://www.oldcomputers.net/pics/zorba-right.jpg
Way better than Osbornes and Kaypros. It had two 5 1/4 Canon floppy drives that used a native 384 (!) KB format but could read and write virtually all popular diskette formats, and had a swift 4 MHz Zilog Z-80 processor paired with the full 64 KB of RAM the system could handle. Mine had an amber internal monitor; not one of those crappy green ones. It was bundled with Wordstar, Calcstar, Microsoft C Basic (compiled basic), a bit level editor; ZDDT (Zorba Dynamic Debugging Tool, which you had to have to patch the user areas of your software so they would run on your specific hardware), an assembly language programming tool, and much, much more. What a beast!
It even did graphics!
http://www.zorba.z80.de/images/Telcon.Zorba.graph.jpg
more photos at: http://www.zorba.z80.de/photos.htm
Served me well until I broke down and bought one of the original Mitsubishi-built Leading Edge computers.
Showoff!!!!:rolleyes:
I have a Spectrum Sinclair "compatible" in my basement. Runs the built-in BASIC and CP/M (56k or RAM available after loading). 3.5" 720k floppy...
It still runs (or was running last time I checked).
As for show off, there are a couple of links many probably know them long time, but still (for those who probably do not):Quote:
Originally Posted by MobilePCPhysician
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp
http://obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
If anyone still browses the internet through DOS, then I must say they are living dangerously and on the edge.
Hardly. Those using DOS for internet surfing are - I would not insist on "mostly", but still at least many of them - hobbyists. If one has time (time means at least some income / money) for a hobby, then he / she is hardly living dangerously and on the edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by cookin chef
People on the edge would probably use Linux, FreeBSD, other *nix systems - these systems give you an opportunity to make combinations letting you really reduce your expenses, letting really to make a bypass or realize a scenario when you meet your everyday needs by means of some alternative way. DOS is not ready for this now. FreeDOS people may do that in future, if they are to concentrate on creating an alternative OS for PC, but by now they are at much more modest business of making alternative DOS.