Bootable web browser

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:55 am

We are coding a bootable web browser, that will boot and display the fasm forum in 1 second.
If anyone who can code in asm, wants to help your more than welcome.

See here:
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.ph ... c&start=40

Here is the NEW self extracting exe to put it on a floppy
http://www.dex4u.com/FBrowser/FBrowser.zip
Here is the NEW floppy image and .bat file to test it in a emulator qemu.
http://www.dex4u.com/FBrowser/FBrowserE.zip

If you want the res to be 1024*768, i have put it in a folder on the floppy, just replace the one in the root dir.

exkor · Post by **exkor** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:04 am

Maybe 2 seconds. Some monitors will not switch between graph & text modes within 1 second with int10. (do you use bios int 10h?)

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:34 am

looks quite nice, but what is the purpose?

edit:
Just tryed the qemu image, boots fine but then it stalls. But i supose its still a work in progress.

Maybe of interest:
QEMU version: 0.9.0-win

ucosty · Post by **ucosty** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:31 pm

Zacariaz wrote:looks quite nice, but what is the purpose?

edit:
Just tryed the qemu image, boots fine but then it stalls. But i supose its still a work in progress.

Maybe of interest:
QEMU version: 0.9.0-win

It isn't stalled, from what I can tell, as the time updates in sync with my computer (using qemu).

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:49 pm

If the time is still up dating, than as ucosty pointed out, it not stalled, thats as far as the work in progress is, we only started it about 2 weeks ago.
Point of it, is to show what can be done, even if it ends up 3 seconds, it will be faster than any x86 to boot to a web bowser.
I have already code a full tcp/ip stack and drivers, gif, jpeg decoders, the gui is fully skinable.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:11 pm

Actuall the time doesnt change, i let it run a few minutes just to be sure. could of course try again.

edit:
ok, the time does update. It didnt seem to do the first time.

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:54 pm

wow, very nice.
will you be releasing the sources? I'd be very intersted in checking out what makes this tick.

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:07 am

Sure, the starter code has been released, but the add on's (the ver you see in the screen shot ) Will be released later today.
I will post a link here:

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:48 am

I have now released the latest source code you can get it here:
http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=70861#70861

You may need to join to download it.