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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. Limitations by Raindance · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a very cool project.

    Current limitations seem to include lack of DirectX support but, as Pocket Quake was ported, perhaps there's some OpenGL framework for the Pocket PC that wouldn't be too difficult to link up with this Windows 98 emulation.

    So, it's not perfect for 'playing any PC game' yet, but there's hope.

    RD

  2. Usefull ? by Dozix007 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is a Windows 95/98 port to the PocketPC a very usefull tool ? Win. 95/98 is designed to be usefull and (somewhat) functional for a desktop enviroment. The Pocket PC version of Windows is a far more usefull tool. It have features built in that PocketPCs are used for, and it does not drag down your resources nearly as much as 98/95.

    1. Re:Usefull ? by robslimo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I'm with you. Maybe my imagination is just failing me today, but I couldn't think of a reason, other than to say "Hey, look at this!" to do this.

      Beside, I'm pretty sure you can't buy a legal copy of 96/98/ME and, since a windows license is not transferable to another machine (I think), there may not be a legal way to run old Windows on a Pocket PC.

  3. What kinds of nerds are you guys?! by smr2x · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the point of this may be just because you can... Not every little hack has to have a purpose. I'm impressed just because it's cool to have been done.

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  4. nice tour de force by InternationalCow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But then I am using one OS I do not like to run another one that I do not like at all :) Seriously, I would have more use for a nice X windows client so I could remotely connect to my OSX and Solaris boxes at work. That would be really useful.

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  5. 98 emulation is cool? by bsDaemon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Windows 98 is one of the worst "operating systems" ever. Running it nativily is sure to get you beaten up by the /. Pogramm Action Committee. But emulating it is suddenly cool enough for a Slashdot headline?

    Of course, /. also posts every time someone gets Linux to do anything remotly approaching almost sorta but not quite entirely unlike working on anything that has electricity pluged into it, so...

  6. Re:Slashspammed? by ThomaMelas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well it's pretty simple. I've seen figures that put slashdot at 15 million or so readers at any given time. If 1% read the article, we're talking about 150,000 hits at one time. But I think the figure is closer to 4 or 5 % reading the articles. So that is three quarters of a million hits within 20 seconds. That's a pretty good DDOS attack. God help the site that has a story intresting enough for 50% of the readers to read the story.