Mastodon client for MS-DOS 'DOStodon' appeared

Mastodon, a decentralized federated SNS, has attracted attention from some users after Elon Musk acquired Twitter. A client ' DOStodon ' that can use such Mastodon on IBM PC is released as open source software.

GitHub - SuperIlu/DOStodon: MS-DOS Mastodon client
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

The IBM PC is a PC announced by IBM in 1981, and is the originator of later PC/AT compatible machines . The CPU was a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 , and the OS was IBM PC DOS , or MS-DOS , jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft.

DOStodon is a Mastodon client for MS-DOS. Developer SuperIlu has developed a JavaScript program environment ' DOjS ' for MS-DOS and FreeDOS, and DOStodon is also implemented in JavaScript. To use it, you need a virtual machine with a packet driver that matches your network card, a real machine, or an environment running the open source DOS emulator DOSBox-X . The recommended specs are 32MiB or more of RAM and 133MHz Pentium or more of CPU.

Running DOStodon with DOSBox-X looks like this. A timeline is formed by Toot (tweet).

New source drop for #DOStodon . This time I actually tried running it against my real account before pushing it to the server and it seems to work now.
I also updated a DOSBox-X example config in the README...
Sorry for the previous faulty drop! pic.twitter.com/tEcKgbnjxS

— @[email protected] (@dec_hl) November 16, 2022

Of course, you can display the image attached to Toot, browse the other person's profile, like and boost. Also, when the processing becomes heavy, the Mastodon logo will be displayed in the center and it will wait for loading.

I did some more work on #DOStodon , the #Mastodon client for #MSDOS .

I added a splash screen, a busy indicator for network access, you can scroll the entries now, there is a profile viewer and you can like and boost.
Image attachments are now displayed, too.pic.twitter.com/1ELCMqcibb

— @[email protected] (@dec_hl) November 18, 2022

You can switch between the home screen, notification screen, and Toot screen with F1 to F3. However, since the Toot screen editor supports only the Backspace key, it does not function as a text editor at the time of article creation.

Remember my #Mastodon Cyberdeck?
Well, here is another Mastodon client: DOStodon.
A Mastodon client for #MSDOS implemented in #JavaScript ! pic.twitter.com/G7JMimTGA2

— @[email protected] (@dec_hl) November 12, 2022

In addition, since DOStodon does not support login by two-factor authentication at the time of article creation, security seems to be lower than normal Mastodon.