Lynx?

I remember years ago i tried the dos browser Arachne on a 486.
Searching for it i found a funny 11 years old thread about it.

http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/arachne- … ience/3443.html

OffByOne?

I've tried arachne on a 486DX2-66 and although it works its painfully slow. On a 386SX I'd just stick to lynx to be quite honest.

Thanks for the responses guys, a text based browser huh? Didn't think of that but sounds pretty interesting. Lynx does look rather good and after some research I have found some info about Arachne and saw someone on YouTube had it running on his 386, though it's hard to tell on a video how fast it was running.

As for OffByOne, that's looks pretty straightforward and a nice GUI too. I will have to give them all a go when I get some blank CD-R's. 😀 I got IE 3 aswell (Win 3.1 version) so might aswell give it a punt.

[EDIT] After looking at the OffByOne website it says it only supports 95 onwards so not too hopeful with that one though I will give it a try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Nn0eDF9X0

this is really slow, but not as painful to watch as wolfenstein on a 8086 🤣

Keep in mind that HTTP has changed sufficiently that an outdated browser will no longer function correctly. (There's a video out there somewhere showing the evolution of Internet Explorer that discusses the problem in more detail – IE 1.0 will no longer work directly.)

Otherwise I would direct you to http://browsers.evolt.org/ .

what o/s are you using

I understand that old, text and javaless browsers wont look pretty on modern internet sites but its really out of curiosity more then anything. Plus there's a few abandon sites that id like to see anyway. 😀

Davros wrote:

what o/s are you using

Oops I should have said really. Windows 3.1.

Yeah OffByOne's not gonna work on 3.1

though, i never tried if it works with Win32s, probably doesn't either.

Something Webkit needs to be 3.1'ified 😜

did you know the sb awe64 cd contains i.e 2.0

Davros wrote:

did you know the sb awe64 cd contains i.e 2.0

I think you can still download old IE installers on the OldApps website.

Edit: Oh wait it only goes down to 4.0. I got 3.0 for Win3.1 anyway so I would think that would run on 386SX without too much issues.

Davros wrote:

did you know the sb awe64 cd contains i.e 2.0

Then what about contacting OldApps website and tell them, that it is possible to get IE2.0 via that AWE64 installer ?

tokyoracer: What about Mosaic Internet Browser , or is that only a Win32 browser ?

http://browsers.evolt.org , as previously mentioned, has pretty much every version of every PC browser that ever was.

But as I said, something as ancient as Mosaic just plain isn't going to work with today's Internet due to changes in the HTTP protocol.

WolverineDK wrote:

tokyoracer: What about Mosaic Internet Browser , or is that only a Win32 browser ?

Yeah that look pretty good thanks il give that a try. 😀

Like I said i'm not expecting it to work well, it's really for old and/or simple site browsing. Plus it's just out of interest. It'll make use of the Network card i'm waiting for aswell.