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« on: October 17, 2005, 10:45:00 am »
After some time debuggiing, I can run it successfully on my C3000.
It's useful for legacy dos apps.
Also updated libsdl, added shift+ctrl+cancel to brute exit sdl apps.
libsdl does have some problems inside. Don't know when I would have time again to fix the problrm. I did comparison between bvdd sdl, performance seems to be close.

When begin to run dosbox, it will blink, press cancel to ease the running.

How to run:
Extract the files
If you have installed other libSDL, first backup appropriate files.
move libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 to /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib
#mv libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib
#ln -sf /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
#ln -sf /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.7.1 /opt/Qtopia/sharp/lib/libSDL.so

If you want to run as root, be sure to copy the file under /tmp/qtembedded-zaurus/*.spec to /tmp/qtembedded-root/

then you can run dosbox
#./dosbox

Any problems, you can report here.
« Last Edit: October 17, 2005, 09:47:56 pm by chyang »
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2005, 12:04:27 am »
Works excellently: however, it crashes the Zaurus on exit and I cannot enter the colon key. Any work-arounds?

Additionally, did you compile this against the standard kernel or Atty's optimized with iWMMX extensions?
« Last Edit: October 18, 2005, 12:06:32 am by spartan »
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2005, 01:36:40 am »
I'd like to add that I managed to get Master of Orion II to work with some work-arounds to the keyboard issues. I didn't activate swap in my test run so past the screen shot below it completely ran out of memory and killed DosBox.

If possible, compile with optimizations and a fixed mouse support: it works very well.
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2005, 04:15:39 am »
I tried to run some games. I tried Warcraft 1 and Knights of Xentar. Both ran but were terrible slow :-( unplayable.
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2005, 05:59:21 am »
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I'd like to add that I managed to get Master of Orion II to work with some work-arounds to the keyboard issues. I didn't activate swap in my test run so past the screen shot below it completely ran out of memory and killed DosBox.

If possible, compile with optimizations and a fixed mouse support: it works very well.
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If I could get DOS and MOO 2 running on my Zaurus, I'd never let it alone again. Any .IPKs that will install both and run everything correctly?

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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2005, 11:06:11 am »
very nice Chyang! i was planning to compile dosbox because i wanted to run some old games but you beat me to it and done a great job too

so i packaged it up and built an ipk for it
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2005, 01:29:34 am »
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so i packaged it up and built an ipk for it
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The package is working nicely. But i can't enter the slash which is necessary.
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Is this one of the keyboard issues where you have a workaround? How do you did it?

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« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2005, 07:08:12 pm »
I used one external keyboard for the unsupported keys. The SDL needs lots of re-work. Also, you may try keyhelper to remap the keyboard.
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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2005, 10:59:31 pm »
Is this ipk just for the C3000 and C3100? I installed it on my C1000 and it installed okay. When I ran it from the terminal it complained about a couple of missing libraries, libstdc++ being one of them. I installed that from the feed and when I launched dosbox by tapping the icon on the desktop, it cause my display to flicker a lot and the only way to get out of it is to reboot.

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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2005, 12:56:10 am »
I could only fix the slash problem by running Keyhelper with Meanie's configuration. It swaps comma with forward-slash. However, I failed to configure colon to function inside Dosbox, regardless of the key assigned in Keyhelper. However, by adding the following in your Dosbox.config file at the [Autoexec] section, you can mount and switch drives, precluding the need for a forward slash and colon.

[Autoexec]
mount c /mnt/card
C:\

Of course, replace /mnt/card with whatever directory on your Zaurus you want the C drive to point to.
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2005, 03:11:54 am »
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However, by adding the following in your Dosbox.config file at the [Autoexec] section, you can mount and switch drives, precluding the need for a forward slash and colon.

[Autoexec]
mount c /mnt/card
C:\

Of course, replace /mnt/card with whatever directory on your Zaurus you want the C drive to point to.
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Found this workaround also and it works. But the game I tried (Ascendency, very nice strategy game) is much to slow. I read that you need at least a GHz processor for games running in protected mode. How is MoO2 running?

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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2005, 05:01:06 am »
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Is this ipk just for the C3000 and C3100? I installed it on my C1000 and it installed okay. When I ran it from the terminal it complained about a couple of missing libraries, libstdc++ being one of them. I installed that from the feed and when I launched dosbox by tapping the icon on the desktop, it cause my display to flicker a lot and the only way to get out of it is to reboot.

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Press cancel to ease it.
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« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2005, 05:47:57 pm »
guyz, i'm impressed...
i've just lauched Civilization 1 on my Z via Dosbox and... it works!!!
just a little slow but it seems playable

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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2005, 06:58:43 am »
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« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2005, 09:47:32 pm »
I made an updated package http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/stu...0.6.3-2_arm.zip so that dosbox uses its own libSDL without touching the main SDL lib so it can co-exist with the SDL that for example doom and zemufe require.
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