Dosbox Package Issues

[Fatty]

Here is my dosbox performance:

CWin3.1 on Zaurus

[dougeeebear]

Here is my dosbox performance:

CWin3.1 on Zaurus
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Wow! That's really fast.
I can get windows to work on mine, but it's slower, and I can't get the mouse to work right.
Of course, I'm not running pdaXrom either, and I have no HD.
I'm running Dosbox on a Transcend 150X SD Card.

[Antikx]

Very nice.
Thanks for sharing!

[kkazakov13]

Am I the only one who thinks it's actually slow? Mine runs at least twice, if not more, faster ...

[Drake01]

Am I the only one who thinks it's actually slow? Mine runs at least twice, if not more, faster ...[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=156050\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I think it's impressive that the Z can run Windoze at all.  

I agree that this seems somewhat slow.  I might be mistaken, but I got the impression that there was actually a slight delay between the keypresses and the character appearing on the screen.  It's hard to tell from the video.

I suppose this would be an option if you need to run Win, but if there was that much delay to increase font size, I'm going to guess that more complex functions would be much slower (e.g. scrolling a relatively large document in Word, updating numerous formulas in a spreadsheet, spell checking, etc.).

I believe the CF interface is a little faster than SD on the Z, which might explain Dougeeebear's comment.  I do have a HDD that I use on special occasions.  I wonder if I still have my old Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0 disks lying around...

[Fatty]

Am I the only one who thinks it's actually slow? Mine runs at least twice, if not more, faster ...
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Wow! Double the speed! It means 15sec less to get into Win and no pointer delay at all? It is amazing! Even more amazing if you can share how you tune your Z ...

Mine uses pdaXrom beta 3 + XFCE + Meanie's dosbox 0.70_2. Cycle @ 5000 and MEM @ 16. I can start dosbox + Win outside X, but failed to get USB mouse to work, so can't say whether I can have better performance, but sure can't get twice.

I agree that this seems somewhat slow.  I might be mistaken, but I got the impression that there was actually a slight delay between the keypresses and the character appearing on the screen.  It's hard to tell from the video.

I suppose this would be an option if you need to run Win, but if there was that much delay to increase font size, I'm going to guess that more complex functions would be much slower (e.g. scrolling a relatively large document in Word, updating numerous formulas in a spreadsheet, spell checking, etc.).

I believe the CF interface is a little faster than SD on the Z, which might explain Dougeeebear's comment.  I do have a HDD that I use on special occasions.  I wonder if I still have my old Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0 disks lying around...
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So you can run faster also? Can you share your setting?

My dosbox is installed in NAND flash, and dos directories in internal /mnt/ide - not Microdrive coz I replaced it with a 150x 4G CF.

[Drake01]

So you can run faster also? Can you share your setting?

My dosbox is installed in NAND flash, and dos directories in internal /mnt/ide - not Microdrive coz I replaced it with a 150x 4G CF.
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I haven't tried running Win3.1.  I was only commenting that the performance in the video seemed a little sluggish if one were to do real work in that environment.  I suppose it would be a trade off, though.  If you can't find a native Linux app to use, then running Windoze on the Z might be an option.

Still, it's really intriguing me... especially if this can be tuned to run faster.  I don't know what I'd actually use it for, but it seems pretty cool.

[Fatty]

I haven't tried running Win3.1.  I was only commenting that the performance in the video seemed a little sluggish if one were to do real work in that environment.  I suppose it would be a trade off, though.  If you can't find a native Linux app to use, then running Windoze on the Z might be an option.

Still, it's really intriguing me... especially if this can be tuned to run faster.  I don't know what I'd actually use it for, but it seems pretty cool.
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Oh, I see  

At present stage its just for fun. I'd be very pleased if it's speed could double and no lag on pointer, and that I could use stylus instead of USB mouse.

Tks guys esp. Meanie & kkazakov13 for their great work!

[Jon_J]

I just downloaded wellswang's dosbox_0.70-iwmmxt_armv5tel.zip from the pinned new packages announcements thread.
Has anyone got the keymap to match the newer clamshell Zaurii? (Cxx00)
In dosbox, it says to mount a directory using this:
mount c ~/dosprog
I cannot for the life of me make the '~' key on the zaurus keyboard work.
(shift + 9 doesn't work, I tried both left shift and right shift)
Do any of the function F1-F10 keys work somehow?

[Antikx]

the tilde just means home
you can substitute ~ with /home/root
now I'm stuck.. I'm trying to type c: so I can go to my mounted drive letter, but I can't find the colon.

[Jon_J]

thanks, I cannot type (/) on the keyboard, it gives me (,/) at the same time.
I got that working now, but none of the blue keys work. I need \

[Antikx]

Shift + Fn + / give you \
anyone figure out how to get a  ":" (colon)

EDIT: ahhhh. Fn  + RightShift + g  

[wellswang]

Shift + Fn + / give you \
anyone figure out how to get a  ":" (colon)
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Fn+Right Shift+g

[Jon_J]

it says to mount a directory, first one needs to be created, but it won't create one. If I create one in the linux console, where do I create it? and how do I navagate to it in dosbox to mount it?

[Antikx]

Wasteland... here I come.