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Arachne DOS browser and piracy :-( (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 30.08.2007, 03:50

> Arachne is hosted by SourceForge now:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/arachne-browser
That's indeed news (very very recent), but I already knew it. :-D

> It still doesn't work for me.

Me either. I tried for a few hours like a week or so ago, couldn't get it to work (but I'm braindead regarding networking, ugh ...).

> Abnormal program termination in the installer. 2nd attempt,
> same result (after backuping old installation) :-(
It's not really an installer, AFAIK, only a RAR SFX .EXE, and it expects you install to C: (which I made as a RAM drive before installing b/c the P4 only has one NTFS partition on the main HD).

> looks nice, but graphics is somewhat buggy occasionally ... other "minor"
> problem: no access to the Internet :no: Arachne includes support for cca 3
> cards, none of them matched (surprisingly ?) ...
Yeah, looks VERY nice. Would be better if I could get it working!! :-P

> Need a driver :surprised:
>
> [image]
>
> Any attempt to improve ^^^ driver support for new hardware is very
> welcome, but this test util did not work for me :-(
NICSCAN works for me, and I easily found a packet driver, but I use DSL, so I have no idea how to get Arachne to work. ("my_ip = dhcp" ?? In LANTCP.CFG and / or WATTCP.CFG ???) I dunno, try this: http://www.crynwr.com/

> I looked at Arachne, some observations (OK, this is maybe not the best
> place to report bugs):
>
> - The "CORE.EXE" seems to be a 16-bit RM executable, but uses 32-bit D**PP
> stuff to decode PNG and GIF - no optimal CPU usage, and definitely no
> "fully graphical" web browser on 80286 or 8086 :-(
I think the day is long past where the developers care about 16-bit compatibility in Arachne. But yeah, I recently suggested LxPic to Glenn, which does work on 8088 (supposedly).

> - The package contains various obsolete and unuseful stuff. This issue, at
> least, could be very easily fixed :hungry: Found:
> - - CWSDPMI v3 from 1995 (desperately obsolete and buggy, should be
> replaced by CWSDPMI v5 at least, better HDPMI32, even better (but not
> trivial at all) merge JPG&PNG support into CORE.EXE
Yes, CWSDPMI r5 would be best, IMO.

> - - CTMOUSE 1.8 - just remove (no need to include a mouse driver)
There are three CTMOUSE versions that i know of: CTmouse 1.9 (stable), CTmouse 2.0 (wheel, EGA support), CTmouse 2.1 beta (no EGA support).

BTW, I did e-mail Glenn recently telling him to update ZIP, UNZIP, UNRAR (and he did, for the next version anyways).

> - - USBASPI advertising - no need, not Arachne related at all, and legally
> problematic

Someone needs to really really "harrass" (for lack of better word) the driver companies for clarification about their licensing.

> I wonder how many people (except K. Udo) actually had Arachne working or
> "use" it seriously, and with what connection type or cards. Especially,
> whether someone has it working with a PCI Ethernet card.
The developers all use it, but I dunno outside of them (like I said, very confusing, and Linux seems to have automatic DHCP which worked easier for my dumb a**, anyways).

> If someone knows where to search for DOS drivers for PCI Ethernet cards
> (Linksys) - most what I found so far were "bootdisks" (very questionable
> stuff, mostly obviously pirated) - please post info :hungry:
All I know (besides Crynwr) is Georg Potthast's online collection.

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