AOL 8

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Tunnel adapter and browser engine, in one package

One package, one installer. It sets up both parts and cleans up after the old driver.

aol-revival-setup.zip - about 950 KB

SHA-256: 9016d7a5aed7144d1691485e4095efc5370cceba17c3f16565bcdeb45674e0dc

Check it before you run it:

certutil -hashfile aol-revival-setup.zip SHA256

What is inside

• Setup.cmd - the graphical installer, German and English
• Tunnel adapter - a signed, current driver in place of the 2002 one
• Browser engine - a modern engine for the browser window
• Cleanup - removes the old dial-up driver from the driver store
• Uninstall.ps1 - puts everything back the way it was

Nothing in the package patches AOL itself. The original tunnel.cct is kept, and the uninstaller restores it.

What it needs

Requirement	Detail
Client	AOL 8, any language
Windows	2000 or newer for the client; 7 or newer for the modern browser engine
Extra	WebView2 runtime, x86 build (on Windows 7: version 109 at the latest)
Rights	administrator, for the service and the adapter

Without WebView2 everything still works - the browser window just falls back to Internet Explorer.

Then what

The setup guide walks through it, including the Server name field that points the client here.

Source

The tunnel adapter and the browser engine were written for this project. They talk to the client over its own interfaces and change nothing about it. If you want to know how, the tunnel page and the documentation explain the protocol; for the code itself, write to the address on the contact page.