Indeed, I'm using an old-school program called Qmodem. My question now is – would I be able to use the Internet using the emulated modem?
Brandon Taylor ________________________________ From: Jim Hall via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 10:12 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation? On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 9:38 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it's emulated in a program like PCem or 86Box), I figure there's no way FreeDOS is gonna be able to connect to the Internet, right? Well... The developers of the 86Box project have recently implemented emulation of a Hayes-compatible dial-up modem. So my question is... will FreeDOS support the emulated modem? Well, it's not that "FreeDOS" would support the Hayes modern, but that terminal/dialer software would then be able to. FreeDOS is not like Linux, which uses a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to support the hardware directly. FreeDOS, like any DOS, does normal DOS things and leaves certain hardware access (like playing sounds through a sound card, or accessing a network to browse the web or check email, or dialing out through a modem) to other software. So if you had a terminal/dialer program like Procomm or Telix, then yes, I expect you'd be able to dial out through this emulated Hayes modem from FreeDOS.
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