you can get
http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/
and get the Internet up and running with a network card emulated there

Thats great, thanks. Real DOSBox novice here, only been using it for 5 days, how do I install the patch ".diff" into DOSBox?

How did you manage to install Windows 95? I get the "invalid DOS-version" error.

snipe wrote:

Thats great, thanks. Real DOSBox novice here, only been using it for 5 days, how do I install the patch ".diff" into DOSBox?

Get the binary, not the patch file.

Svenne: As I said I am a novice when it comes to DOSBox, but from what I understand, you could try typing 'ver set 8.0' (without the quotes) and that may solve your problem??

h-a-l-9000: Thanks for the info, am I to assume that this is the latest 'Megabuild'? Its just that I am currently running the portable DOSBox and would prefer to continue doing so if possible?

Thanks

They are both have the same "portability".

Sorry, I mean to say that I am using the actual DOSBox portable obtained from portableapps.com.

No, you can't add the diffs to that version.

Ok, thanks. In that case I will attempt to get it running through the emulated dial-up modem. Any suggestion on taking that route?

DosFreak wrote:

They are both have the same "portability".

I appreciate that you could make any build portable, it's just that the version I have is specifically designed to be used on USB drives, it uses the bare minimum of writes to the drive thus prolonging the life of the device. Given the life of an average mlc flash device is over 10k read/write cylces but still! 😉

it uses the bare minimum of writes to the drive

Says who?

haha, got to see that.

Well, one could modify DOSBox and SDL to eliminate the stderr and stdout files... those are a source of create, write, and delete activity through normal use. Dunno if that's what was done, though.

Edit: I just tried creating 0-byte stderr.txt and stdout.txt files where dosbox.exe is located and marked them as read-only. Using the filemon app, I see that all the create, write, and delete activity for them silently fails. So, one doesn't need a custom build to shut down the writing associated with those files.

Ironically i've seen the 'portableapps' stuff write more to the USB drive than typical, kind of defeaitng thier own point.

Besides, if you're going to have a PORTABLE Win95 install, you can't, as the drive image will ALWAYS be written to, screwing all your genius USB plans. DOSBox doesn't support Undo Disks.

Portableapps.com host software which has been modified in such a way that most of the writes are done in the RAM rather than the USB, in my experience with their software, it seems to be true in most cases. I will not argue the point with you over 'portable DOSBox' as I wouldn't have a clue if this is the case here or not, I can only take the word of those hosting the site. The fact that DOSBox writes to an image file, as mentioned, would certainly suggest that there has to be pretty heavy writing to the drive for that alone, so I suspect you have a point. Ok so I will try the NE2000 route again, how do I install te binary into the official build?

you click on
Download:
Megabuild 5: Windows Installer: archiv.to

you click again on DOSBox_Megabuild5-win32-installer.exe
save it to disk
doubleclick on it and it will install

I will do that, presumably the only other stages are to install the driver under windows 95, which I have already located with ease, and to install the Pcap library, which I presume is required?