Pandora running Windows 95 - cross-platform purpose testing only


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Well, some of you guys are missing Bill Gates, so i decided to give Windows 95 a try with the Pandora, following some howtos, here, here, and here


i really don't think it's going to be useful in any matter. Very basic software should work fine, i think.


Boot time: barely one minute


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https://www.youtube.com/embed/CXeNvyiUDTM?feature=oembed
 
Someone should port Bochs, because I'm genuinely curious as to how it'll perform relative to DOSBox. I think it actually stands a good chance of beating it despite not having a recompiler. I actually think that.
 
i wonder if i could play roller coaster tycoon in it. if i could that would be a dream come true.
 
I8NY said:
i wonder if i could play roller coaster tycoon in it. if i could that would be a dream come true.
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I remember playing roller coaster tycoon on a windows 95 box - it went at a decent speed (although I used a no-cd patch because it only had a 1X cd drive).
 
It's cool to see it running though. The funny thing is that it doesn't seem all that much slower than computers at the time ran it! (The OS, I know additional software wouldn't though.)
 
Exophase said:
Someone should port Bochs, because I'm genuinely curious as to how it'll perform relative to DOSBox. I think it actually stands a good chance of beating it despite not having a recompiler. I actually think that.
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I just tryed bochs on N900 (from extras-devel), it works, so someone could just repack it for test run :) if it will not run out of the box, maybe just small modifications would be needed. I'd do it myself, but I don't have a pandora (am at the end of batch1)
 
It actually raises a very interesting point though: why is there no solitaire on the Pandora? gnome-games is, what, 5 or 6 MB at most? Yeah, NAND is kinda limited, but aren't solitaire and minesweeper kinda staples of what a new computer comes with these days? It feels so empty without them!


I'll attempt to PND them up tonight. How hard could it be?
 
WizardStan said:
It actually raises a very interesting point though: why is there no solitaire on the Pandora? gnome-games is, what, 5 or 6 MB at most? Yeah, NAND is kinda limited, but aren't solitaire and minesweeper kinda staples of what a new computer comes with these days? It feels so empty without them!


I'll attempt to PND them up tonight. How hard could it be?
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i agree


however we do have Ltris and mahjong now still it needs some solitaire :D
 
WizardStan said:
It actually raises a very interesting point though: why is there no solitaire on the Pandora? gnome-games is, what, 5 or 6 MB at most?
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Gnome games are far larger than that. the kde games pnd is 122M and I expect about the same size for gnome games. Do you realize that these games are a bit more than a standard windows games clones ?

WizardStan said:
Yeah, NAND is kinda limited, but aren't solitaire and minesweeper kinda staples of what a new computer comes with these days? It feels so empty without them!
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I don't agree here.

WizardStan said:
I'll attempt to PND them up tonight. How hard could it be?
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just a few dependency away.
 
My new state of the art mac doesn't have solitaire or Minesweeper :unsure:
 
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