Gregory's ServerIntroducing the first alpha release of Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups!
Available for Windows 95 :BlobhajShock:
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 @maartje I wonder what's the latest version of Windows that can run this 🤔 @autistic_enby I am really convinced it works on win 11... @maartje well it opened on Win11, but I'm getting this error. @autistic_enby aaaah yeah it will not follow redirects and only supports http (the config is also without http://) So euh it would probably work! @maartje do you know where the config file could be? @maartje Update: It's working on Win11 now! Due to popular demand... The source and a binary release note that this is a very early release it is full of bugs. I literally spend just a few hours on this without knowing VB6 before I started: @maartje I looked at the API myself a couple days ago and made a very simple proof of concept at fetching public posts. Very easy to use. I love that you got it going on such an old OS. Now can we get it connected with a BBS server. @dunkelstern currently the area I am working on is sleeping. 😴 Feel free to make issues and “self-assign” them! I will probably do some more work on it but I don’t have a specific domain to tackle El #RetroComputing portat a l'extrem: Una programadora crea un client de :mastodon: per a Windows 95!  @maartje went to check the code to see how did yo deal with SSL as AFAIK current versions are not available in old Windows... and there it is in the Readme: "You need a HTTPS to HTTP proxy". Brilliant! :) @maartje I got intense nostalgia from the scrunching sounds of the FDD and the HDD reading files and swapping. ❤️   @maartje I’ve been holding off on updating to Windows 95, but this seals it. Now, where did I put those 20 installer floppies?  @maartje Oh, cool! 🤩  @maartje I watched this with headphones, primarily for the nostalgia of hearing a floppy drive be loaded and chug away. Love it. Winforms was the real glory days of software imo... also the last time I felt capable of doing any UI work.  @maartje is it weird that the scanlines give me a warm fuzzy feeling before making my eyes hurt with phantom pain?  @goatwildernesscollective should work as it used the IE API. Still need to test but my dialup server is offline at the moment and no time to set it up again @maartje my first (community) college programming course was in VB! I loved how you could draw out a UI and then attach code to elements. Cool project! @maartje wow wow wow! Calm down! Nobody have resources for that kind of machine. @maartje it strikes me sometimes when building Android apps, that it's not all that different from working in Delphi in 1999. It is different, and it isn't. Nostalgia moment seeing again the default VB form icon :blobcataww:
How do you deal with the fact that most instances aren't accepting older crypto suites for SSL/TLS? Did you have to reenable RC4 (and older SSL/TLS protocols) server side or are you using an intermediate proxy to reach the API? @whirledsol it is a placeholder till i write avatar downloads and will probably be the reccomended mode for dial-up users   |
@maartje this is the COOLEST thing I have seen all day and it makes me want to get a win95 PC up and running