💾 @pieter's Windows 3.11 PC is now connected to another retro computer on the web
It's @ryolu_'s Ryos X, a MacOS X inspired Web OS where you can listen music, watch videos, play games, browse the web and now chat with people on my retro PC too
My dream with this project was to connect it to other retro computers on the web so they can all participate as first class citizens on the internet eventhough they're all old computers running in your browser, and that's happening now 😊
My dreams to see in the browser AND connected to the real internet:
- Atari ST (we had one as kids for awhile)
- Amiga (never had one, but heard a lot about it)
- Apple II (every SF guy has this one at home)
- Windows XP (I wanna do it but it's hard cause 32-bit)
Video
@levelsio (@levelsio)
💬 Here's the demo of pieter.com's PC running Windows 3.11 (from 1993) talking to dialtone.live Apple Computer running MacOS 7.1 (from 1992) both running inside your browser
It's crazy how fast the messages arrive, I'd have expected some delay because of the layers it has to go through
It goes from a PC/Mac emulator inside WebAssembly in JS sending it via an emulated modem on COM1 port with emulated TCP/IP over WebSockets then routed via a PPP daemon to the real internet and to the reverse engineered America Online server and then back again to the other computer like that
But everything happens in literally milliseconds
Modern day computing and the internet is truly insanely fast 😊
Video
— https://nitter.net/levelsio/status/2005007436793438542#m