Internet connection in Windows 95

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Frix0n
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Internet connection in Windows 95

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I'm a crazy man who likes to feel young again and tries to connect to the Internet on Win95 machine hosted on Macbook Air.
I'm stuck. I just don't know how to configure it. I know it is 20 years old system and trying to connect it to the Internet through wifi is just insane, but I think it is possible.
I was wondering if someone there ever tried to do something like this. If you know how to do it, or what I'm doing wrong, please tell me :D
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These are my network settings.
If they are fine, maybe it's something wrong with network configuration in Win95.
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Everything inside is set to default.
Please help me, let me feel oldschool again.
mpack
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Re: Internet connection in Windows 95

Post by mpack »

Well, you have a "PCnet FAST III" NIC selected in the VM recipe, so now you just need to find and install Win95 drivers for that card inside the guest. Then you can start figuring out the guest network config.

And bear in mind that the internet wasn't such a big deal in 1995. It has come on in leaps and bounds in 20 years... which is another way of saying that any browser you can find for Win95 is going to be, I suspect, ludicrously outdated.
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