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@reflex @wbpeckham @freedosproject @mbbrutman I’ve been there with #DOStodon. I’m using mbedTLS with Watt32 and you need a fast 486 for it to be able to complete modern TLS handshake in time. People tried it on 386 and the server just closes the connection during handshake.

There is an issue with the MPI implementation of mbedTLS which makes it use thousands of malloc()s during handshake, so this could be optimized somewhat, but they haven’t touched it for ages 😬

@wbpeckham @reflex @freedosproject And you can use it to connect to the #Fediverse using #DOStodon 😋

Someone wrote(*) a lengthy Spanish post about #DOStodon, my #Mastodon client for #MSDOS

*) I don't speak Spanish, but the machine translation sounds like AI was involved?

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/116584663314623971

@toddsundsted have you tried #DOStodon? 😊

@andypiper That's what I used to implement #DOStodon 🤣

@fanta @microblogc sadly #DOStodon needs way more resources.

I'm doing TLS without a proxy and you need a fast 486 for that to work fast enough.

It should work with lower end CPUs and a TLS proxy though (but I never tried)...

@lunte161 check the history of the #DOstodon hashtag. Someone got it running on a 386 by heavily modifying it and using a TLS proxy. The 386 was to slow to finish the handshake before the server closed the socket out of pure impatience 😂

@WoodooProd one word: #dostodon

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated DOStodon binaries to latest #DOjS release v1.14.0

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing both, the DOS ( @DOSBox_Staging ) and the the win32 version (Win10).

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP

@Saupreiss @nowherefast @ennopark EY! Ohne DOS-Extender gaebe es kein #DOjS und dann auch kein #DOStodon!

You are bored and don't know how to spend your time #RetroCoding?

Well, now you are lucky, as I'd love some contributions to my #MSDOS #RetroComputing projects!

Feel free to help me out with code, documentation or finally a "real" website for #DOjS, #DOStodon, #jSH, #DosView, #lib16 and more 😊

https://github.com/SuperIlu

#RetroDev #RetroDevelopment

@nixCraft put #DOStodon on it and use it for the #fediverse -> not obsolete!

@david_zwei zwei hashtags unter Dir 😮 #dostodon https://mastodon.social/@dec_hl/114839676111300164

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated #curl to 8.14.1
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.4
- Enabled HTTP 3xx redirections

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing both, the DOS ( @DOSBox_Staging ) and the the win32 version (Win10).

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

@BenCollver well, there is your problem 🤣

for some reason the server is replying to each image request with HTTP 301 - moved permanently.

weird, why would it do that?

#DOStodon does not handle that (yet?)...

@onfy #dostodon

@rdm biggest problem for low end retro machines is modern TLS. #DOStodon needs at least a fast 486 or the servers disconnect during connection handshake because of timeouts.
This is especially true for the current implementation in mbedTLS which does thousands of malloc()s during that process 😖

@futurebird
after @shaknais already submitted #DOStodon I'd like to present its predecessor. The Cyberdeck, featuring a black&white TV and a thermal printer...

https://mastodon.social/@dec_hl/109290583582014825

EDIT: Code is here
https://github.com/SuperIlu/PyToDon

@shaknais @futurebird sorry for spamming, but I just found the post with #DOStodon running on my wooden box PC build 😋

https://mastodon.social/@dec_hl/109376556434276416

@shaknais @futurebird Well, I made #DOStodon and I saw it 🤣

The slides for my #DOjS & #DOStodon talk at #VCFe are available here.
Source, PNG screenshots and PDF.

https://github.com/SuperIlu/VCFe2025

Hallo aus dem DOjS/DOStodon Vortrag mit #DOStodon

#vcfe

Working on my #DOjS / #DOStodon talk for #vcfe #vcfe24
The slides are done using #Javascript and #DOjS. They will be presented in #86box running #FreeDOS.

@root42 I _could_ make releases of #DOStodon, but just uploading a working directory with the Javascript sources and the #DOjS binaries is way simpler.
After all ist is a side project that spawned from a bad joke!

And it took me weeks to port #DOjS to win32, which I consider my time well spent instead of adding releases to #DOStodon...

Oh noes, I was deducted "cool points" and now my open source project (which I maintain all by myself w/o any help or contributions in my free time) is less cool because a self proclaimed GitHub repository inspector does not like how I release my software!!!one!eleven

What shall I do? Should I delete #DOStodon? Should I delete myself? The world?

I like how they have made the effort to tell me they won't use it instead of providing a PR or help to fix it...

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Updated #curl to 8.13.0
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.3
- Fixed #win32 version (works on #WinXP or newer), DLLs were missing

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

Screenshot is showing the win32 version running on Win10.

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

@kim

I think someone got #DOStodon running on a 386 with 9MiB.
They used a TLS proxy though, because the 386 is to slow to do the SSL handshake and the server closed the connection.

You can try a 486 with 66MHz and 8MiB RAM if you are adventurous and have lots of time.

Anything Pentium and 16MiB should work, but is quite slow...

@FediTips

Plan for tonight: Install MS-DOS on the #WeeCee to publish a post on Mastodon using #DOStodon. Might be overly ambitious though—let’s see what roadblocks I encounter.

#msdos #retrocomputing