Mail Archives: opendos/2001/10/24/04:46:20
Just a bit of updated information, for those interested ...
Firstly, the web site for WDOSX has moved to :
"http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/wdosx/"
Secondly, for Borland C++, Borland Delphi and MSVC++ (AFAIK)
developers, you should obtain the updated "kernel32" file(s)
from "http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/wdosx/k32patch.zip".
Thirdly, it seems that a few weeks ago, the binaries for Watcom
C/C++ and Fortran V11.0c (beta) were released, although I think
a full source release is still awaiting some licensing issues. See
"http://www.openwatcom.org/status.html" for status information.
Finally, there's an interesting link on the WDOSX web page, to
"http://www.sudleyplace.com/", where you can get "386swat",
a free debugger, which I haven't tried as yet, but it seems quite
impressive (supports DOS, Windoze, real mode, protected
mode, etc.). There's also other interesting development links
on the WDOSX web page, BTW.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: da Silva, Joe
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:55 PM
> To: 'opendos AT delorie DOT com'
> Subject: New DOS stuff - WDOSX 0.96
>
> 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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