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Bootable web browser
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:55 am
by Dex
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:04 am
by exkor
Maybe 2 seconds. Some monitors will not switch between graph & text modes within 1 second with int10. (do you use bios int 10h?)
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:34 am
by Zacariaz
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
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:31 pm
by ucosty
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).
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:49 pm
by Dex
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:11 pm
by Zacariaz
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:54 pm
by 01000101
wow, very nice.
will you be releasing the sources? I'd be very intersted in checking out what makes this tick.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:07 am
by Dex
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:
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:48 am
by Dex
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.