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EtherDFS is an 'installable filesystem' TSR for DOS. It maps a drive from a remote computer (typically Linux-based) to a local drive letter, using raw ethernet frames to communicate. For years, I was using LapLink to transfer files between my various "retro" computers. It works, yes, but it's also annoyingly slow and requires constant attention. One day I thought, "Wouldn't it be amazing if all my PCs could share a common network drive, similarly to how NFS operates in the *nix world...

Superhighway84 is an open-source, terminal-based, IPFS-powered, USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized peer-to-peer internet discussion system with retro aesthetics.

Galactic Tycoon is a retro-style BBS game similar to TradeWars 2002, and Planets: The Exploration of Space.

Remember those Hacker movies chat applications? Yes, those with the green chars that appeared one by one on the screen, in real time, as the remote user typed them. That's what InstaChat aims for, a retro, multiplatform*, ncurses based real time chat, in which each key you press is directly sent through the network to the peer you are talking to. Checkout the Blog(Developers News) for NEWS! *Only tested on windows, but the only used libraries are ncurses and boost for socket...