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Windows 98SE emulated on Pocket PC

Posted by timothy on from the and-then-run-pearpc dept.

David Horn writes "PocketGamer is carrying a story on the successful emulation of Windows 95 and Windows 98SE on the Pocket PC. This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, a DOS emulator. If you're keen to try this yourself, you'll need a minimum of a 256MB memory card (or stream the image over a wireless network) and you'll need a program like Nyditot Virtual Display to increase your screen resolution. Oh, yes, and you'll also need the emulator. You can find more information and a selection of screenshots here. Following the porting of a full speed Playstation emulator and Pocket Quake, this really raises the bar for what the Pocket PC is capable of."

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  1. Bochs is not a DOS emulator! by Henrik+S.+Hansen · · Score: 5, Informative
    Bochs (link in article is wrong!) is not a DOS emulator!

    From the website:

    Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS.

  2. Re:Limitations by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pocket Quake uses Quake's software renderer.

    However ATI did comission me to port GLQuake to Pocket PC to conform to OpenGL ES. However the source code is not available (as we have not distributed - only demoed - the binary).

    Dan East

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  3. People did that on zaurus ages ago! :) by pangel83 · · Score: 5, Informative

    And here you go for screenshots: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tzer-jen/zbochs/

  4. SCREENSHOT MIRROR by peterprior · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror of the screenshots here

    They are actual size, due to small pocketpc screen I presume..

  5. uhhh by ShadowRage · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pocket PC port of Bochs, a DOS emulator.

    uhhh, dont you mean x86 emulator?
    bochs can handle more than just dos.

  6. Re:Limitations: Speed? by jrockway · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes. However, someone should try running Windows98 under QEMU. QEMU can emulate an x86 host now (I installed Windows Server 2003 under QEMU and it worked fine; it was usuable in speed), and it runs on ARM machines. Bochs isn't really good for much anymore, QEMU beats it in everything.

    (In case you're wondering QEMU can emulate PREP and x86 hosts and run on ARM, PPC, x86, SPARC, and more. It can also translate (for example) Linux/x86 binaries to run on PPC so you can use wine on a PPC. As I said, it's really really cool. Take a look at their site or the OS Support Table. Have fun!)

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