The Paw

Description

The Paw was an attempt to build a cooperative multitasking, graphical desktop environment under DOS, using Allegro and DJGPP. After switching to Linux and X11, and a few problems involving DLX, I gave up, but some of the code is still usable, in particular the windowing kernel and widget set (which you will have to strip out yourself).

Please note that it is abandoned . If you email me about it I will not ignore you, but I won't have much to say about it.

Screen shot

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Download

Sorry, removed because I don't have enough disk space on my ISP's server. I may put it back, but really, nobody is interested.

3rd party libraries

Required to compile the source distribution.

• djgpp - compiler
• Allegro - multimedia library
• DLX - dynamic linking library
• brfont (51.7k) - font library

Note that The Paw is very outdated, so you'll probably need older versions of these libraries. You also need an older version of gcc (2.7.2).

In short, good luck!

Project ideas

If you would like something to do, here are some hints:

• Update it for newer Allegro and brfont versions.
• Make it use Stonewheel instead of DLX, so that it will work with newer versions of gcc, and will be portable to Linux.
• Strip out the windowing kernel for general use.

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