Dos Emulator

[Luis]

Does anyone know if there is a DOS emulator around (or one in development), something like DOSbox? I think it would be great to be able to play games like DUNE 2, MIGHT AND MAGIC 3, SYSTEM SHOCK and KINGS QUEST 5 on the GP32.
I know we can play Doom and SCUMM games but I was thinking of a generic DOS emulator instead of emulators for individual games.

 

[ratx]

Hi sorry - don't know of any, and its probally not going to happen nor is technically feasable. There are a lot of posts on this subject so expect people to remind you of this oh and most of the games you have listed are available on another emulated platform.

Cheers

 

[damaki]

This has been dealt with thousand times. Please use the search function of the forum...

 

[AlexW]

I still think this would be possible...
Why not try to make a GP32 version of this...
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

 

[Jarska333]

OK AlexW, you just volunteered. I hope you know ARM assembly.

 

[foft]

I still think this would be possible...
Why not try to make a GP32 version of this...
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

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I _was_ considering having a go at this. Quite cunning the way it works, building up opcodes from small bits of c code, to reduce porting cost. Should be possible to do a 10MHz 286 or something I reckon. However it takes a fait bit of memory. In terms of porting there are quite a lot of Linux system dependencies to remove. Guess someone (with the memory upgrade) could try it on the Linux port to see what kind of performance it gives.

Course I broke my first GP32 attempting the mem upgrade. Then I couldn't even get Civ running on it (easily) under Linux x86. Which was why i wanted it...

Mark

 

[cozmic]

It would be VERY handy...

Having exel etc. on the gp32

 

[Klown]

Does anyone know if there is a DOS emulator around (or one in development), something like DOSbox? I think it would be great to be able to play games like DUNE 2, MIGHT AND MAGIC 3, SYSTEM SHOCK and KINGS QUEST 5 on the GP32.
I know we can play Doom and SCUMM games but I was thinking of a generic DOS emulator instead of emulators for individual games.

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That sounds like a perfectly researched and intelligent idea. I've already started work on coding a dosbox port!

 

[Hanz™]

I'm pretty sure that recently I read about a post for a dos emulator (for Windows) which had relatively low specs but i can't remember what it was called.

Shall go and look now.

 

[Hanz™]

There was speculation that Bhole could be ported ot a GP32.
Here

But I don't think DEv's ever looked at it.