DOS ain't dead

I did test with HX. It seems to work but opening the window it:
1) " slow vido driver detected..... LodePain requires opengl .." ( I have ati agp 4x and/or S3; and opengl32.dll in hx-bin)
2) in the new opening window ".. icons_tools.prc not found in the skins dir"
3) program crashed
andrea

> @rr : could you please send a (new or old) PWD to Roberto
> Perotti AKA iw2evk so that he doesn't have to use other people
> for posting here?

I unblocked Roberto's account today. I also answered his private e-mail.

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I made a new test on my second machine with dualboot FreeDOS - Windows98.
(test made in FreeDOS but PATH variable set to cover D:\windows\system)

Now the Lodepaint WORKED.
However after init screen I got crash when loading some plugin from .\Pluggins\ subdirectory. So I deleted this plugin and then it worked.

The reaction on mouse movement is slow but the image manipulations are OK (area filling, blurring the image, etc.).
I was able to SAVE the image but I had to go into Settings in upper menu and check off the "use native OS load/save dialog". After that it works but I am not able to browse the directories tree and I was limited to root C:\
However i successfully created the C:\test1.png

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DOS-u-akbar!

About UBROWSER ( web-kit based ??) I'd test with HX : I'd "give it step by step" the required .dll but it stopped on the nspr4.dll ( I'd take from XP) "cannot resolve import... cannot load PE file.."
I'd test ubrowser with XP = not so bad but deprived download files....
..by the way : remember OWB ( origyn webkit browser)? It worked with HX ;
it's no longer supported/developed by 3-4 years but I confess sometimes I still use OWB with HX when I want to examine a web page in a whole vision and it works well enough ( example = I cannot see the download link of dugplay in "Mediafire" web page [see "announce" in 16.6.2013] with Arachne or Dillo but I can with OWB (I know: no download, no bookmark etc...)
And at the present (I suppose) OWB is still the only win32 browser working with HX -
Anyone is still working on OWB?
regards
andrea

> Would it
> be possible to compile some of the WIN32 libs or software natively (for
> HX)? Would it be possible to use some WINE/ReactOS sources?

I think that most win32 libs depends more or less on WinAPI and maybe windows kernel functions that has not equivalent under DOS, DJGPP whatever. So it's task for HX to emulate this API, instead you would have to static-link a half of Windows/ROS/Wine code to make it work...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> This question probably requires it's own topic, but...
>
> Is there a C/C++ API for HX libs usable with DJGPP and/or OWatcom. Would it
> be possible to compile some of the WIN32 libs or software natively (for
> HX)? Would it be possible to use some WINE/ReactOS sources?
>
> Just brainstorming. Sorry if I'm out of place in this topic. Couldn't
> hold out the question because there might be an answer.

I didn't want to answer because I'm not totally familiar with it. I was hoping Japheth would explain. Well, here goes nothing!

There is some C library support in HXDEV for PE (Win32 API?) stuff in DOS. It too complicated to understand (by me) fully, but check HXDEV*.ZIP's LIB/ and LIBOMF/ subdirectories (e.g. static Win32 emulation libs: dkrnl32s.lib, dadvapis.lib, dgdi32s.lib, duser32s.lib).

I assume that's what you meant. If not, be more specific which apps or what you want to compile. (See OWSUPP/readme.txt concerning "hxdos" and "hxnts" targets.)