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'iDOS' Emulator Supports DOS and Windows 3.0 on iOS Devices
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I remember playing this game when I was a little kid! Do you think you could post a screenshot of it?
For those that may not know it already, if you type intro at the C:\> prompt, i.e.
C:\>intro
You'll get a summary of some of the DOSBox features including keyboard shortcuts for things like capturing screen shots and dynamically increasing or decreasing emulation cycles (CTRL-F11 to slow down, CTRL-F12 to speed up)
C:\>intro
You'll get a summary of some of the DOSBox features including keyboard shortcuts for things like capturing screen shots and dynamically increasing or decreasing emulation cycles (CTRL-F11 to slow down, CTRL-F12 to speed up)
Not quite.
Seems whoever was tasked with screening this app did not understand
1. The demo games included were NOT abandonware, but are still actively copyrighted and defended, and
2. There was a security flaw big enough to drive a whole new OS thru.
These are major rules violations. What's amazing is that it got thru, not that it was pulled.
I noticed you can access the entire filesystem without being jailbroken. It's just read access, so you can't remove or change anything, but it's still interesting that this works. Probably why it was pulled: http://bit.ly/bd0ruS
The turtlenecked overlord is protecting you - to keep you from using all of the capabilities of the device that you have purchased.
You don't want options, you don't want choice. Repeat the mantra....
The nes emulators out there are not written in assemble and are therefore pretty slow. SNES ADX for the iPhone/Pod/Pad, on the other hand, is written in assembly and as such is a barn burner.
A Nintendo emulator requires such little power, it's irrelevant. When I'm on the train playing a regular Nintendo DS game, and the light is red because the batteries are a few minutes away from dying, I just put on my Nintendo emulator, and the light goes back to green. I even fast forward and it still stays in green.
running windows 3.1 really burns the battery power. I have it on the charger right now and it is loosing about 1% ever few minutes. The back of the iPad is quite hot, not hot enough though to bring up the apple heat warning.
I am about to attempt an install of windows 98
I am about to attempt an install of windows 98
What number of cycles are you running? I know it wears down my battery too at 3k cycles, but I haven't had a heat warning yet. To save battery, I've found 2500 is the best for speed to battery murder
I was not aware that you could change that. When I tap on it there is no response and nothing in the settings pane.
In Dos it runs at 3000. In win3.1 it runs at 100%
I got Starflight running in mine. With kids and a job now it's hard to find time to play (and it's sad to say that my desire to play is fading too), but it's so cool to see the old graphics and hear that old theme song again. Good memories. King's Quest or Space Quest is next, I hope.
Before starting Windows, type cycles=value where value equals the number of cycles you want. If you want an insanely fast Windows 3.1 experience, use 4500, (sound errors occur on my iPad above this number). So for an example:
cycles=4500
Hope this helps!
Also, RobBookPro, try upping the cycles and see if you can get Windows 98 running, if all else fails, I'd at least love to see Windows 95? I believe iDOS is emulating a 386, which is what Windows 95 requires (although it recommends a 486).
the windows98 installer works at 4500 cycles.
However there seams to be a bigger problem then that. It paused while checking for drives and when I quit the app and returned to the springboard the entire screen was flickering. So I am restarting the ipad.
However there seams to be a bigger problem then that. It paused while checking for drives and when I quit the app and returned to the springboard the entire screen was flickering. So I am restarting the ipad.
I was wondering about that, because back when I tested out Windows 1.1 on a virtual machine, I believe that it ran at full speed. I assume that since back then CPUs consumed such little power (according a Wikipedia list that I read, here it goes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation), having the CPU going at full speed wasn't a concern back then. It's a little bit before my time, but I do remember my parent's 75 MHz Pentium, and I don't think it even had a fan. It's all an assumption.
Oh bother! would have loved to have that app. Play dos games with Boxer (DosBox) on my MacBook Pro all the time :'(
You can try dosbox or Boxer
This is way, way, cool....
How about one for a regular Mac (for the Mac App Store
But, I guess no emulators allowed as Apple pulled it...
I'd like a TRS-80 one...