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r5540 r21575 1 1 2 O D I N Public Alpha 5 - 1999/11/163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~2 O D I N Version 0.6 Build xxxxx 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 4 5 5 WANTED: We are still looking for talented developers that want to … … 12 12 ======================== 13 13 14 14 15 1.0 Introduction 15 16 ---------------- … … 17 18 This readme is intended for end users that have downloaded the 18 19 latest public alpha release and want to give it a try. For more 19 information, be sure to regularly check http://www.netlabs.org/odin. 20 information, be sure to regularly check http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32/. 21 20 22 21 23 1.1 Purpose … … 30 32 code. This is also refered to as Odin32 whereas Odin is the name 31 33 of the Win32 binary emulator. 34 32 35 33 36 1.2 Current Status … … 48 51 run well and to make much more visible progress. 49 52 53 50 54 1.3 Changes and additions in alpha 5 51 55 ------------------------------------ 52 - Removed Open32 dependacy in User32 code: windows, dialogs, buttons and 53 other controls creation and manipulation is now implemented fully in Odin32. 54 Applications have Win32 look: Win32 specific controls are also supported 55 (Open32 is still a requirement as other Odin32 functions use it!) 56 - New and improved PE2LX converter 57 - New Portable Executable Loader (PE) that overcomes some differences 58 between OS/2 and Win32 memory models (this does not include 512MB 59 per-process memory limitation in OS/2, you still need the Aurora-level 60 kernel for that) 61 - New WIN32K32k.SYS driver that automates loading of Win32 binaries (no 62 conversion or invocation through PE.EXE loader is needed), now 63 compatible with WSeB (Aurora) and no longer dependant of code under 64 GNU license 65 - Wine ports of common controls (comctl32), shell extensions (shell32) and 66 OLE 67 - Full implementation of memory mapped files 68 - Joystick support (winmm) 69 - Direct Input (DirectX keyboard & mouse) added (Wine Port) 70 - Rewrite of DirectDraw. More complete implementation. 71 - Couple of (not core Win32 API, but often used) new DLLs (winasp32, lz32, 72 avifil32...), so users don't have to have Windows license at all to run 73 Windows programs 74 - Many new API functions implemented or ported from Wine, allows 75 developers to port Win32 apps directly to OS/2 with little to no rewriting 76 - Many bugfixes and enhancements 77 - Many new programs that load and/or work with Odin 78 - Full source code available 56 57 Please refer to the ChangeLog file where you will find a brief description 58 of changes from release to release. 79 59 80 60 … … 82 62 ----------------------------- 83 63 84 Daily builds of Odin are available at ftp://ftp. os2.org/odin/daily.64 Daily builds of Odin are available at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/. 85 65 For people that do not have a suitable development setup for ODIN, 86 66 we provide the latest binary code that way. … … 567 547 ------------------------------------ 568 548 569 Bug reports can be sent to the Odin users mailinglist (odinusers@egroups.com; 570 visit www.egroups.com for information about joining). 571 The file ReportingBugs.txt explains how to send in a proper bug report. 572 573 An application compatibility database has been created at Netlabs 574 where you can share your experiences with Odin. 575 The application compatibility database can be found at 576 577 http://www.netlabs.org/odin/appdatabase 578 579 NOTE: The application database is not meant for bug reports. 549 Bug reports can be filed in the ticket system at http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32/. 580 550 581 551 … … 643 613 ---------------------------------------- 644 614 645 Please check out http:// www.netlabs.org/ and http://www.netlabs.org/odin.615 Please check out http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32/. 646 616 647 617
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