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MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open open the computer, browse the web and even open...

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@levelsio1 year ago

Here I'm chatting on and it just worksssss crazy :D

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@levelsio1 year ago

Chatting with @marckohlbrugge

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@levelsio1 year ago

It runs rly fast on iPhone inside Safari too At least mouse kinda works on there although it keeps getting stuck in drag mode

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John Shedletsky1 year ago

Wonder how many exploits are possible in a Win 3.1 machine connected to the internet.

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@levelsio1 year ago

Great point hah, it's literally exposed now

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Szymon Rączka1 year ago

I enjoy this project so much! Like a time travel to good old times when life still was hard for me, but I had this virtual world I could run away.

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@levelsio1 year ago

<3

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Pedro Orlando1 year ago

Imagine setting a printer 🖨️ 🤣

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@levelsio1 year ago

Man me and @AndreyAzimov @rameerez talked today about it if I should emulate a dot matrix printer on the page that it could print to via LPT1!

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Jeroen Wollaars1 year ago

Lolol. If you’re ever in trouble don’t forget to C:\> copy WINSOCK.DLL \WINDOWS\SYSTEM as I have advised 104748 people as a help desk employee for a major Dutch internet provider back in the day

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@levelsio1 year ago

It's still so accurate, literally did that in the emulator too lol

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