Last updated: 2023/04/04

Please check the website at https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io for any 
edits/updates to this file and files within the LOOKHERE directory and
sub directories.

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Internet

Do you need Internet for PsychDOS to work? No, but PsychDOS includes web
browsers and other pieces of software that utilize networking features, 
such as local HTM files, Telnet, Gopher and etc., as well as PsychDOS's 
Workbench having pastebin options. If you have installed PsychDOS on 
FreeDOS or MS-DOS, but on a newer computer, you are probably "SOL" and 
should just skip ahead.

But having that said, for the purposes of promoting free and open-source
software, as well as assuming that most people are just wanting to "play
around" with PsychDOS and will do so on a newer computer, this howto 
will utilize FreeDOS and the tool QEMU on a GNU/Linux operating system; 
do not ask me to explain how to do this on Virtual Box or on anything 
other than GNU/Linux as I do not use Virtual Box or Windows/MacOS and 
there are plenty of videos across the Internet on this already. But 
essentially, after installing FreeDOS on either your actual much older 
computer or on QEMU, you need to reboot the system again with the 
FreeDOS CD-ROM, USB, or the ISO on QEMU. Afterwards, in the SHELL use 
FDIMPLES to open a package manager that will install software off of 
your medium of choice. To make things as easy as possible, select 
everything under the Internet/Network section to install. Afterwards, if
using an older computer, you should be fine as far as Internet goes and 
can test this out with the Links web browser. However, on QEMU, you will
need to use something like the following: 

qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -cdrom "/path/to/freedos.img" -m 256 -boot d \
-soundhw all -vga cirrus -netdev user,id=mynet0 \
-device pcnet,netdev=mynet0

...And as long as the GNU/Linux system you are doing this on has working
Internet, the Internet on QEMU should also work.

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HOWEVER, if you downloaded the copy of the psychdos.img file instead of
the regular version and have qemu installed, just use:

qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -boot c \
-drive format=raw,file="/path/to/psychdos.img" -m 256 -soundhw all \
-vga std -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device pcnet,netdev=mynet0

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By the way, if you need a plain http search engine for vintage
computers, you could try FrogFind! at http://www.frogfind.com.