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OWB in DOS (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 24.01.2010, 11:08

Laaca wrote:

> It doesn't work for me. It complains about unsupported imports
> from MSVCR80.DLL Maybe I have some bad version of this DLL.

M$WCRT80.DLL is the primary evil here

Japheth wrote:

> I verified that there's also no "caret" in Windows. So this is no emulation problem.

So we found a BUG in pre-Alpha software. Incredible !!!

> move the cursor to the upper left corner. This should sync the internal and "external" positions.

I'll try.

> There's some progress (hx v2.17)

Good Could you look at the timing regression and the "spawn-FS-GPF-BUG" also ?

> 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.

So what should be the "final" solution to this problem ?

> Also, owb isn't the fastest browser.

Well, I would not whine about this too early

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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