A question for old 95lx/100lx/200LX owners and users.

[SNi]

A good suggestion, SNi, but no joy. Turns out that the cg.com TSR handles the special CGA screen calls in place of the real 200LX hardware. The reason that some systems, like the Nokia, need it removed is that they already have the 200LX calls in native OS. Not so Bochs or the Z.

 By putting "pause"s everywhere in APP200.BAT, I was able to narrow the problem a bit. UN200 executes OK. SO do cg.com & tkernel. When LAUNCHER.COM tries to run, it freezes the DOS session.

 Without cg or tkernel, launcher abends with a very fast "TSR not loaded" warning and a clear screen.

 In theory, from what I've read today, ANY System manager compliant DOS app could be run in place of launcher in the BAT file. Or even just by loading cg & tkernel first.

 So I'll keep researching Bochs & CPACK to see if any answers popup. Let us know if you think of anything else to try!


THANKS!

OK, another idea.... Do you have a _DAT directory created - since that's where the system puts the dosmgr.env and dosmgr.dat files?
SNi

[Miami_Bob]

OK, another idea.... Do you have a _DAT directory created - since that's where the system puts the dosmgr.env and dosmgr.dat files?
SNi

The CPACK works a little differently. All the *.env & setup files go in the default APP200 directory.

I'm using the same structure that works OK on every PC desktop system that I have tried. (even off a LeXar USB Jump Drive in a Win-XP DOS session).

The same setup *does* run in the newer xqt-bochs v2.1.1 but that version of Bochs has some major bugs that I haven't been able to resolve so far.

- will not recognise HD img files, even when made fresh from bximage

- maps both the ";" & ":" Zaurus keys as ";" so it is impossible to change drives

  (ie B: is seen as B;)

  terminals in both blackbox & fluxbox see the keys correctly so bochs is the problem

- once the bochs VGABIOS image takes over, bochs becomes larger than the physical screen size.

- a couple others that I don't recall right off the top.

I'm going to have to put this project on hold in order to send my test bed C860 back for repair before the backlight fails entirely. No longer willing to risk putting my mission critical Z at risk of downtime (after that last scare).

But ... "Ah'll be bach!"

[Omicron]

Just an update.


Still working on this.  Whole thing is in swing, so lots of cutting/replacing to get good ol' awt up and running for ease and size of install plus performance.

(Yeah I know I could extract all the swing packages, but I don't want to go that route....call me old fashioned).

Anyway, getting there slowly but surely.

Just wanted to let you know I was still on the case as time allows.

O

[Miami_Bob]

Just an update.

Just wanted to let you know I was still on the case as time allows.

O

Thanks for the update, Omicron!