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OWB in DOS (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 09.01.2010, 11:03
(edited by Japheth on 09.01.2010, 11:42)

Hello,

Roberto made me aware of OWB. This is a GUI Webbrowser using SDL and Apple's Webkit ( search for +OWB +SDL in Google for more details ).

With a few extensions it works to some extend in DOS with HX v2.17.

Here's my email to Roberto:

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I'm now able to run the browser. It's not that stable, but runs ok for "playing purposes" so far. I uploaded HXRT/GUI v2.17 on my site which did work for me.

What's needed in detail:

- packet driver
- Mouse driver
- DOSLFN
- HX v2.17
- WLDAP32.DLL from Windows XP
- MS VC 2005 runtimes ( MSVCR80.DLL, MSVCP80.DLL )
- MSVCRT.DLL ( for SDL.DLL )
- your package ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15843/Appli_vista.rar )

You start it with: DPMILD32 -g OWB.EXE >xxx

[ the ">xxx" is important to prevent the console displays from appearing on the screen ].

What's still bad:

- resolution is 800x600 fix. Can you ask the OWB developer to change this to 1024x768?
- no possibility to enter an URL. How's this supposed to work?
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Please note that the software is alpha - that means, no need to report "bugs" or crashes.

Here's a screenshot made in DOS:

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• OWB in DOS - Japheth, 09.01.2010, 11:03 (Announce)
  • OWB in DOS - Laaca, 09.01.2010, 18:05
  • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - DOS386, 14.01.2010, 09:14
    • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - Japheth, 14.01.2010, 17:12
      • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 04:55
        • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 08:35
          • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 09:09
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 15:07
              • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Laaca, 16.01.2010, 20:27
                • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:57
          • Try harder !!! - rr, 17.01.2010, 18:57
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:58
  • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 22.01.2010, 09:22
    • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 24.01.2010, 11:08
    • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 26.01.2010, 07:27
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 27.01.2010, 12:22
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 29.01.2010, 11:22
        • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 29.01.2010, 13:31
          • OWB in DOS | Formula1 - DOS386, 06.02.2010, 09:33