Mail Archives: opendos/2001/05/29/05:54:13
The following may be of interest to DOS application developers :
Last month, it seems (after a very long gestation), V0.96 of the
WDOSX 32 bit DOS extender was released (note that this is
*not* the same as the 0.96 beta version that was released about
a year ago - it has one or two new API functions and a number
of bug fixes).
For those not familiar with it, WDOSX can be used with NASM,
TASM, MASM, Borland C, Borland Delphi, MSVC, Watcom C,
TMT Pascal and DJGPP (including GNU Pascal :-). It incorporates
an EXE packer, so the stubbed executable is often half the size
of the original un-stubbed executable. It supports all manner of
XMS, etc. and includes a DPMI host, but it does not support EMS
or (AFAIK) virtual memory.
Binary and source are available at http://www.wuschel.demon.co.uk/
(the Geocities WDOSX site has not been updated and only has the
beta version mentioned earlier).
BTW, WDOSX can (in theory) convert some Windoze command
line applications into DOS applications, although the ones I have
tried previously, seem to have required more Win32 API functions
than WDOSX currently provides.
Joe.
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