DOS ain't dead - OWB in DOS

OWB in DOS (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 22.01.2010, 09:22

There's some progress (hx v2.17)

- the "resolution" issue is solved. OWB starts with 800x600, but in Windows one can simply maximize the window to get a larger window size. HX didn't have a UI for "maximization", but this has been added now in the hxgui menu.

- there were a lot of crashes with OWB in hx due to heap corruption. The current heap allocation function in v2.17 does therefore internally add 8 bytes to each heap request. This makes the thing significantly more stable. Apparently Windows some something quite similar, since the crashes occured in hx only. Also, when a heap item is released, some additional integrity checks are done and if they fail, the heap is displayed and an exception is raised. This will be temporarily only.

However, there are still crashes and issues with the mouse. Also, owb isn't the fastest browser.

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MS-DOS forever!

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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
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