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I edited this to slowly update this list with working games. My tested games: Call of Duty Modern Warfare - Has rendering issues (as of vk3d version 2.1, the game renders half properly, but crashes on startup) Cyberpunk 2077 - Devs says that the game should work properly only on amd hardware, but in my case rtx 2060 runs the game just ok. Every 2 hours the game freezes (aprox.) Devs game list: AC: Valhalla The Division Control Death Stranding Devil May Cry 5 Ghostrunner Horizon Zero Dawn Metro Exodus Monster Hunter World Resident Evil 2 / 3 D3D12 Library https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases

== Links Web Browser for DOS with TLS 1.2 Community Edition == = Overview = Links for DOS is one of two known web browsers compiled for DOS with TLS v1.2 support [1]. It was tested to run well in vanilla Windows 98, using it's DOS v7.10. Below is a compilation of the most relevant information needed to download, install and run the browser. To keep the thread clean, please avoid posting information unrelated to Links for DOS. Project homepage. http://links.twibright.com/ Changelog. http://links.twibright.com/download/ChangeLog Online manual, not all applies to running in DOS. http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html = Screenshot = https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Webbrowser_Links.jpg = Prerequisites = - Working DOS system - Basic DOS knowledge - Functional DOS network [2] - Software downloads below = Download = Download cwsdpmi.exe (21 KB) [3], cwsparam.exe (13 KB) [3] and links-2.25.exe (7.0 MB). http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/dos/ Optional DOS mouse driver, test system uses CuteMouse with a traditional PS/2 wired mouse, direct download link below (ctm20a4.zip, 61 KB). https://sourceforge.net/projects/cutemouse/files/latest/download = Setup = Extract downloads as applicable. This example creates a C:\DOS directory with additional subdirectories for all relevant software, modify as desired. Create and place 'cwsdpmi.exe' and 'cwsparam.exe' in C:\DOS\CWSDPMI. Rename 'links-2.25.exe' to DOS-friendly 'LINKS225.EXE' and place it in C:\DOS\LINKS. From the CuteMouse download, only 'CTMOUSE.EXE' is needed, copy it to C:\DOS. = Configure DOS Environment = Running Links for DOS with mouse support, the test system requires minimal AUTOEXEC.BAT entries and no CONFIG.SYS entries. DOSKEY is optional in AUTOEXEC.BAT, useful for making DOS navigation easier, unrelated to the browser. Note Windows 98's default CONFIG.SYS file contains entries for HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE. It is IMPORTANT that these be commented out (REM = REMARK), as outlined below. As Links uses CWSDPMI, loading HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE concurrently was found to negatively affect browser performance. C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file: @ECHO OFF C:\DOS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2 DOSKEY /INSERT C:\CONFIG.SYS file: REM DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS REM DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM = LINKS.BAT = Create a C:\LINKS.BAT file to load the DOS packet driver and launch Links for DOS. Modify the DOS packet driver entry based on the system utilized. Note Links for DOS needs to be run from a true DOS environment. Do not launch it from Windows or drop to DOS from a Windows session. Instead reboot system into DOS before launching browser. To run Links in text instead of graphic mode remove the '-MODE 1024x768x16M32' snippet, resolution appears to just utilize native DOS rows/columns. C:\LINKS.BAT file: @ECHO OFF CLS C:\DOS\LNE100\LNE100TX.COM 0x60 C:\DOS\CWSDPMI\CWSDPMI.EXE LH C:\DOS\LINKS\LINKS225.EXE -MODE 1024x768x16M32 https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite = First Run = Boot to DOS and run C:\LINKS.BAT to launch Links. Based on the configuration above it should load the DuckDuckGo-Lite search engine. Press Escape key or click on the upper screen for the Links menu. Review options and keyboard shortcuts. No special configuration is necessary. Deciding whether to view images is likely the biggest performance factor (View dropdown -> Html options -> Display Images). = Quicker DHCP Launch = If the first browser launch resulted in a 'Configuring through BOOTP' delay and then connected via DHCP anyway, create a configuration file named WATTCP.CFG in C:\DOS\LINKS containing the line below [4]. my_ip=dhcp = Confirm TLS v1.2 Support = Load the link below to confirm TLS v1.2 support. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html = Miscellaneous = Although the notes above configure Links to run in DOS, it can also reportedly be set up to run in a Windows environment using the ethernet adapter's NDIS driver [5]. Although there is no scroll mouse, hold either right or center-click and drag up/down for controlled scrolling. If scrolling is laggy, try changing Setup dropdown -> Video options -> select 'Overwrite screen instead of scrolling it'. Once familiar with the keyboard shortcuts, Links works almost more efficiently without mouse support, modify configuration as desired. A useful feature is File -> OS Shell, which temporarily drops out of Links to work in DOS, type 'exit' at the DOS prompt to resume the Links session. END [1] See also Lynx Web Browser Community Edition for DOS with TLS 1.2. https://msfn.org/board/topic/182400-lynx-web-browser-community-edition-for-dos-with-tls-12 [2] Review this DOS Networking guide if the system does not yet have a working DOS packet driver. Note mTCP is not required to run Links for DOS as it handles connectivity internally. https://msfn.org/board/topic/177106-running-vanilla-windows-98-in-2020/page/32/?tab=comments#comment-1187090 For network adapters that do not have a working packet driver, review forum member @Deomsh's NDIS 2 driver guide below. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181853-links-web-browser-for-dos-with-tls-12-community-edition/?tab=comments#comment-1187234 [3] Alternatively, download the same 'r7 binary distribution' (csdpmi7b-1.zip, 70 KB) of CWSDPMI (Charles W. Sandmann's DOS Protected Mode Interface) from below if documentation is desired. http://sandmann.dotster.com/cwsdpmi/ [4] More WATTCP configuration information. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS_-_WATTCP [5] To configure Links to run in a Windows environment using the ethernet adapter's NDIS driver see @Deomsh's configuration notes and the discussion that follows. https://msfn.org/board/topic/181853-links-web-browser-community-edition-for-dos-with-tls-12/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-1187615

Wow. I was just about to have the quickest internet experience in my life. With a DOS browser!? No kidding! The path of progress is... the past itself? Old DOS computers with no mouse and no cooling are quicker than quad-cores super gaming water-cooled Windows 10 machines with a 20-button-mouse? I'm losing faith in computer scientists... no, in fact I've lost that long ago, but this is just another example, how web design should be and how efficent programs can be if intelligent people are behind it. Two things to critisize: The name "Links" is problematic. As it was already said, it can be confused with hyperlinks. Also, it means "left" in German, which will disturb me every time I open the browser. I propose this thing to be called "Megalynx". Secondly, it's not beautiful, that the first screen you get to see when starting an unconfigured Links, is just a blinking cursor. The top bar should be there, like when pressing ESC for example. That will make the user feel, that something is there actually. Else it looks like a stuck BIOS... One last thing to say: COMMENT WRTITTEN WITH LINKS ON MS-DOS ONLINE IN 2020

... Making phone calls requires the WebRTC feature to be present in the application, New Moon (either versions) & BNavigator do not support it (by design) ... You might try latest Serpent 52 (... its WebRTC implementation is fully spec-compliant, but Google enforce strict racism against anything they, themselves, don't produce/control ) ... It's quite probable you'd also have to tweak Serpent's UA to pose as [a] Chromium [variant] to their servers ...

Only as a marginal note, I just saw that nomachine is XP compatible: https://www.nomachine.com/download jaclaz

@NoelC Excuse me, but is is possible you replied to the wrong thread? I don't see why changing this tool from closed to open source would change ANYTHING for Microsoft. If this tool has been developed by clean room reverse engineering, which bigmuscle states he did, there's nothing Microsoft could do about it. And why should they? It's not like this tool becoming open source would suddenly hurt Microsoft. Like, at all. If anything, big muscle currently sells an app based on Microsoft's design. > but because a change in look and feel are important to marketers It was actually done simply because a gaussian blur effect and other 3D effects are very resource hungry. If you look closer, you'll see that Windows 8's design is just a (in a few places made boxier) small variation from Windows 7, at least in terms of traditional Windows apps. The desicion to remove the aero was made pretty much at the end of development, *probably* because that's when they began optimizing it for tablets in terms of performance. See:

Update VHD_WIMBOOT Version 3.7 Download: from GitHub VHD_WIMBOOT-37 and Win_Reduce_Trusted-37 - USB Fix 7/8 - registry tweak Win7 and UsbBootWatcher.conf for USB Boot Updated - Added Service Settings - Intel iusb3xhc and iusb3hub and ASMedia XHCI asmtxhci and asmthub3 - Start=0 and BootFlags=4 and Group=System Bus Extender UsbBootWatcher is useful also when booting from USB on other hardware to have the right USB service settings for that case. Win_Reduce_Trusted allows to modify Offline Windows 7/8/10 in VHD - General Post Install Modifications - Reduce UsedSize in VHD to about 2 GB - make Mini 7/8/10 x64 in VHD booting as FILEDISK from USB / SSD and booting from RAMSDISK using SVBus driver - Add Folders and Files and Registry Tweaks - e.g. Add FirewallAppBlocker and SwiftSearch - USB Fix 7/8 for booting 7/8 VHD from USB - run Custom Command for post install modifications

I agree, nobody knows how to make a website anymore. Everybody uses a template and the end product looks awful. I use mainly HTML + CSS3 and my policy is no JS unless absolutely necessary. Mainly advanced dropdowns and necessary logic. Most of my pages don't have any site JS. Thus, my website loads quickly and is accessible. Also, I code every line myself. All the PHP, all the CSS, and most of the JS... (sometimes, I do use a small library for a specific task, b/c I hate JS).