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Fedi.Tips Apr 11, 2025

In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s

Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii

Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

Palm OS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

#Mastodon #RetroComputing

Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)

A Mastodon client for the Apple 2

Dostodon; "A Pentium 133 or faster with at least 32MiB of RAM is recommended."

That is a lot of machine!
What hardware will it actually run on?

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SuperIlu

@kim

I think someone got #DOStodon running on a 386 with 9MiB.
They used a TLS proxy though, because the 386 is to slow to do the SSL handshake and the server closed the connection.

You can try a 486 with 66MHz and 8MiB RAM if you are adventurous and have lots of time.

Anything Pentium and 16MiB should work, but is quite slow...

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