Windows 95 On The Gp2x

[carlgeorge]

One of my friends ran Windows 2000 with Virtual PC 6 on his 1.33Ghz iBook G4. ZSNES was unplayable due to the intense stuttering. He has yet to try VPC7, but either way, I doubt the GP2X will be able to do much seeing as how a 1.33Ghz G4 obviously outclasses it by far in power, and Windows 95 isn't designed to operate with two processors (nor is Bochs).

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I occasionally run CAD software on Win 95 / XP through VPC7 on a G5 -- XP puts the processor under full load where as 95 only uses 50% processor time to run.
BTW was zsnes the linux version or win version under VPC?

Oh, on topic, nice job as a tech demo on getting windaz to run on the GP2X -- can I now run MS Paint?

 

[Paradox]

i have a windows 95 CD, how do i turn it into a disk image? any guides?

 

[skeezix]

Before folks ask for feateure requests (virtual keyboard etc) .. remember that this will be sloooooooooooooow and not actually useful

jeff

 

[(naw)mcx]

still be good to show off

 

[God Ginrai]

It can still be useful, even if it IS sloooooooooooow. ;p

 

[Paradox]

original poster: did you try overclocking the gp2x to 266mhz and trying it?

would it be at all possible to maybe disable certain things like networking and stuff that we wont need on the gp2x and disable it from bochs/windows and see a speed increase?

 

[linoleum13]

I would say that DOS would be more useful than Win95, although it is pretty amaaing to see work as a tech demo. Id really like to play the original Tie Fighter or X-wing or Civilization that I used to run on my 75 Mhz PC.

This really shows the extent to which the 2X can be modded though. Nice job!

 

[aapje89]

windows on gp2x WOW! And how do I accutaly put windows on??? I just wanna inprece all my psp loving friends. lol

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<_<, and then they think all gp2x users are dumb and can not spell....

 

[(naw)mcx]

im only 12......

 

[taras]

Can someone host a copy of this, as I can't download it from the author's site (it keeps timing out/downloading half the archive). Ta!

edit: don't worry about it now, I used MassDownloader to get it.

 

[skeezix]

I would say that DOS would be more useful than Win95, although it is pretty amaaing to see work as a tech demo. Id really like to play the original Tie Fighter or X-wing or Civilization that I used to run on my 75 Mhz PC.

This really shows the extent to which the 2X can be modded though. Nice job!

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Civ is on the the ST (identical to the PC one), so might as well use that.. ncie and fast

jeff

 

[The Spider Mastermind]

Im not having much luck! I get this in the bochsout.log:

00000000000i[ ] Bochs x86 Emulator 2.2.5
00000000000i[ ] Build from CVS snapshot on December 30, 2005
00000000000i[ ] System configuration
00000000000i[ ] processors: 1
00000000000i[ ] A20 line support: yes
00000000000i[ ] APIC support: no
00000000000i[ ] CPU configuration
00000000000i[ ] level: 5
00000000000i[ ] fpu support: yes
00000000000i[ ] paging support: yes, tlb enabled: yes
00000000000i[ ] mmx support: yes
00000000000i[ ] sse support: no
00000000000i[ ] v8086 mode support: yes
00000000000i[ ] VME support: no
00000000000i[ ] 3dnow! support: no
00000000000i[ ] PAE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PGE support: no
00000000000i[ ] PSE support: yes
00000000000i[ ] x86-64 support: no
00000000000i[ ] SEP support: no
00000000000i[ ] Optimization configuration
00000000000i[ ] Guest2HostTLB support: no
00000000000i[ ] RepeatSpeedups support: no
00000000000i[ ] Icache support: no
00000000000i[ ] Host Asm support: no
00000000000i[ ] Fast function calls: no
00000000000i[ ] Devices configuration
00000000000i[ ] NE2000 support: no
00000000000i[ ] PCI support: no
00000000000i[ ] SB16 support: no
00000000000i[ ] USB support: no
00000000000i[ ] VGA extension support:

And this is so exciting too, Ive tried two different packages from the bochs site, linux and freebsd, both give the same.

 

[chris_r]

Now who wants to write an x86 asm core

Actually i just realised this wouldnt be too unrealistic seeing as the 386 didn't do floating points.

 

[Phil]

Starcraft here we come!

j/k

 

[rokdcasbah]

actually, mcx, you shouldn't feel bad as i have seen much worse spelling come from much older folks. i'm not a religious man but seeing the way people spell always makes me wish there was some sort of supernatural justice, it would have to be an extremely cruel world where good spelling went unrewarded.

 

[Hanz™]

windows on gp2x WOW! And how do I accutaly put windows on??? I just wanna inprece all my psp loving friends. lol

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<_<, and then they think all gp2x users are dumb and can not spell....

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im only 12......

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Pwned.

 

[OmarNawaz]

nice one at least beat the psp in boot time

btw how big was the installation files?

 

[pcklee123]

I'm sure I've seen ports on other consoles that had mouse support, So mouse (and it's two buttons) plus an on-screen keyboard should make it usable.

Some needs to port http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ so we can run MacOS too joking btw, I think it takes 8hours to install on a Xbox

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Basilisk II would be nice for 68k macs. http://www.gibix.net/projects/basilisk2/
mini vmac will definitely run fulol speed (black and white mac plus) http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/
and qemu (its supposed to be faster than bochs) http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

 

[Alex.]

Starcraft here we come!

j/k

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If that were to ever happen, I couldn't possibly ask for more!

 

[jmetal88]

When I try to run it, it freezes on a black screen.

Well, at first it just exited to the menu, but then I got the BIOS files and a disk image and such and modified the config file to match, and now I just get a black screen, no boot, nothing.