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DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 18.01.2009, 13:19

Roberto iw2evk (in the past he complained about being possibly banned from here, not completely excluding the possibility that he just forgot his PWD ... ) found out that the Win32 version of GrafX2 (DOS support got dropped 1999, last version unusably buggy) works in DOS. I tested a bit and it really works. From cca 10 supported image formats 9 are crap, but at least one is useful: BMP, no PNG support. Drawing seems to work, saving also.

http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/

The stable version works well, the latest alpha, doesn't:

dpmild32: import not found: GlobalMemoryStatuqEx
dpmild32: file KERNEL32.dll
dpmild32: c:\ge\zlib1.dll: cannot resolve imports

The one missing import seems trivial to fix BTW, it should be in GRAFX2.EXE, not ZLIB1.DLL ... bug of DPMILD32

@rr: please remove the "3-letter word from" the banlist - GlobalMemoryStatuqEx - we had this very same BUG 2 years ago at the forum of King Udo

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Complete thread:

• DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - DOS386, 18.01.2009, 13:19 (Announce)
  • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - Khusraw, 18.01.2009, 18:46
  • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - rr, 18.01.2009, 22:17
    • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - DOS386, 24.01.2009, 09:14
      • DP3 was great for its time - grompe, 24.01.2009, 12:48
        • DP3 was great for its time - Khusraw, 25.01.2009, 17:09
          • DP3 was great for its time - rr, 25.01.2009, 18:01
          • VGAPaint? No, thanks! - grompe, 25.01.2009, 22:05
            • VGAPaint? No, thanks! - Khusraw, 26.01.2009, 09:56
              • Get DP3 and see for yourself - grompe, 26.01.2009, 12:15
                • Think twice before - Khusraw, 26.01.2009, 13:43
                  • Think twice about what? - grompe, 26.01.2009, 14:07
                    • Think twice about what? - Khusraw, 26.01.2009, 16:26
            • VGAPaint? No, thanks! - Khusraw, 27.01.2009, 17:38
      • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - jassenna, 02.02.2009, 02:26
  • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - marcov, 27.01.2009, 16:59
    • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - Khusraw, 27.01.2009, 17:31
    • DOS __DOES__ have a painting programm - RayeR, 27.01.2009, 19:16