Windows 95 Running On The Gp2x

[daminator]

Just WOW

Why not try to run Windows 3.11 ?!?!

Should be faster?

 

[taras]

Yes, that's what I'm going to try, but the binary doesn't download for me

 

[jmetal88]

I'm donwloading it now... I had to use MassDownloader (old, free version) to get it download. I'll see if I can try out "Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure: Forbidden Planet" on there. I have the disk laying somewhere around here...

 

[dennis20014]

looks real and probably possible even though I don't got no clue on technical stuff, but I wouldn't try it win95 isn't that great of an os lol

 

[daminator]

So maybe a Linux GUI like flubox IS possible?!?

We see that Windows runs...

 

[whiskthecat]

IM loving it. Pretty soon the gp2x will be able to do everything the psp can and much more. :rolleyes:

 

[beanfarmer]

hmm would dsl be a good test? this is so cool win95 on a 2x

 

[jmetal88]

Just tried to make it work.

I couldn't figure out the configuration file, so I used the command line option to ignore it, and put my own configs on the command line.

So far, all I've gotten is a black screen. DOS doesn't even appear to boot, so if anyone can get their head around the config file, please say so.

 

[Epicenter]

Heh. Doesn't look fake to me-- you could compile Bochs to run on the GP2x hardware. It's not very proprietary, it's just a little ARM9 computer with an LCD screen and fairly PC software-compatible controls and video/audio hardware. Bochs WILL run slow as dirt though-- it runs piteously slow on very fast PCs, even. But for the real experience in 'slow' there's no beating when I tried to run it on my Mac IIsi with a 20 MHz 68030 back in the 90's. I put a Windows 95 boot floppy in my machine and ran it, and after riding my bike around the neighborhood for 90 minutes and coming back in, it had reached the point where it was just now realizing it hadn't detected my keyboard. Getting to the 95 desktop, including installation time, would probably have taken a week or two without exaggeration.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the GP2x's ARM9 is trying to emulate a CPU with an FPU, in all likelihood-- and running floating point code. That is damning to any chance of speed in that program. But like he said, it's proof of concept. With the relevant source code you could build a binary of say, Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament for the GP2x... with software rendering .. and it'd be hilarious to see. But you'd get a frame a minute or two.

 

[taras]

I've been trying all night to get it to do anything and it won't.

 

[Paradox]

i really wish the guy who ported it would say how to actuall make a windows 95 disk image...

also, i heard there was a windows 3.11 version which was so small and chopped up it could fit on a floppy disk...it had many things taken out to make it faster etc

*no idea* but does windows 3.11 run win32 executables?

 

[fishybawb]

*no idea* but does windows 3.11 run win32 executables?

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Nope.

 

[Akselii]

*no idea* but does windows 3.11 run win32 executables?

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Nope.

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I think i saw a app that let you run 32 bit apps in 3.11 (i found a OLD laptop, 15mb HDD, win3.11) but i couldnt try it because i didnt know how to easily transfer it to the laptop

 

[babbagesmachine]

*no idea* but does windows 3.11 run win32 executables?

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Nope.

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I think i saw a app that let you run 32 bit apps in 3.11 (i found a OLD laptop, 15mb HDD, win3.11) but i couldnt try it because i didnt know how to easily transfer it to the laptop

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your thinking of "win32s" the 32 bit extensions for win 3.11 -- I remember it let you run some stuff designed for win95 but I doubt people supported it for very long after 95 came out.

Bochs running on the gp2x is amazing I will try freedos when I get a chance.