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'iDOS' Emulator Supports DOS and Windows 3.0 on iOS Devices
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This freakishly reminds me of the old joke/story about installing Linux on a road kill possum.
This iOS app is almost as useful
(Anyone remember this geek story/joke about installing Linux on a dead possum, or have a link, as I have forgotten most of it.)
This iOS app is almost as useful
(Anyone remember this geek story/joke about installing Linux on a dead possum, or have a link, as I have forgotten most of it.)
This freakishly reminds me of the old joke/story about installing Linux on a road kill possum.
This iOS app is almost as useful
(Anyone remember this geek story/joke about installing Linux on a dead possum, or have a link, as I have forgotten most of it.)
This? (I really hope there's not more than one. That would be disturbing.
I am sure this is a port of one of the many x86 emulators and ROM-DOS binaries that have been floating around the net for almost twenty years.
I usually don't get sarcastic but there isn't even nostalgia here. I mean, perhaps if you have a longing for an abusive relationship in your past where you only concentrate on the few good moments, yes it could be nostalgic.
There is no need to port a Blue Screen of Death to iOS. However, I am sure there are some dweebs wanting to run Duke Nukem as they are alone in the corner of a coffee shop with the co-eds not even knowing you are there.
hehe, thanks for the link but I was remembering something else. It was a one page story about making your own road kill zombie by installing Linux. (Which could be exactly what you linked to, I just remember it being shorter, or I'm getting older.)
I have nightmares about having to go back to the days of using DOS, why the heck would I want to put it on my iPod
Now if it was an NES or SNES emulator, that would be another story entirely.
Now if it was an NES or SNES emulator, that would be another story entirely.
TinyXP next!?
If there's two things my iPhone was missing, certainly, those are DOS and Windows.
...It is unclear whether Apple's approval of iDOS was in line with the company's broadened guidelines and whether it will continue to be offered in the App Store as news of its capabilities begins to spread.
You mean, like launching ICBMs?
Yes, and the iPad screenshots in iTunes look exactly like a version of DOSbox that was already offered through Cydia. When Apple relaxed their rules to allow interpreted code, writing a DOSbox wrapper for the (unjailbroken) iPad was my first thought. There is no need to include a copyrighted ROM file like with most of the console and Apple ][ emulators. The biggest downfall I saw was that DOSbox is released under the GNU copyleft, so this app should be required to release the source code.
I guess I can take it off my list of iPad apps to get rich writing now!
The original Civilization was DOS only and runs under DOSbox, its worth the $0.99 just to see if that game will work.
Also, it really isn't very useful on an iPhone. You need the extra screen space of an iPad to have a keyboard that isn't superimposed over the DOS screen itself.
Well I tried it, and for Ms Pacman, it worked great, however, I made a video to show my first start up with Doom. and well... just watch (sorry about the crappy camera work)
Edit: Deleted Video, now works fine. Had to edit cpu cycles
It has limited use for me now...
Edit: Deleted Video, now works fine. Had to edit cpu cycles
It has limited use for me now...
Yes, and the iPad screenshots in iTunes look exactly like a version of DOSbox that was already offered through Cydia. When Apple relaxed their rules to allow interpreted code, writing a DOSbox wrapper for the (unjailbroken) iPad was my first thought. There is no need to include a copyrighted ROM file like with most of the console and Apple ][ emulators. The biggest downfall I saw was that DOSbox is released under the GNU copyleft, so this app should be required to release the source code.
I guess I can take it off my list of iPad apps to get rich writing now!
The original Civilization was DOS only and runs under DOSbox, its worth the $0.99 just to see if that game will work.
Also, it really isn't very useful on an iPhone. You need the extra screen space of an iPad to have a keyboard that isn't superimposed over the DOS screen itself.
This is DOSPad the version on Cydia just renamed to remove the pad part due to Apples issues with anything having the name pad in the title - you can download the source from http://www.litchie.net/apps/dospad.html
most games still require you to adjust the cycles you can do this via the c:/ by typing cycles=xxxx I think the default is 3000 I generally use 4500 - 5000 cycles for games like Noctropolis that require a little more performance
Also depending on your iOS version you can type core=dynamic to gain some additional performance