windows 95 on HD2 (for real)

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aszu

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Thanks for this tip kilrah, mouse works well when pressing this 'button'.

On QEMU/Win95 version I attached there is a full keyboard (it uses toolbar-full.qtb) - keys are a bit small but I believe you can magnify them using some external software.
 
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And what exactly is the advantage of having Windows 95 on your HD2? Its funny allright, but I suppose that messaging and calling isn't possible anymore...
 
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michd2 said:
And what exactly is the advantage of having Windows 95 on your HD2? Its funny allright, but I suppose that messaging and calling isn't possible anymore...
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This emulator (which can run Win95) is just an app running on your HD2, it doesn't impact/remove/change WinMo in any way - so you obviously still can make calls and so on.

In most cases, running Win95 on smartphone is just purely for fun, however I can think of some examples when it actually might be useful: i.e for running some old business application, etc.

Actually, using this emulator you can run almost any x86 program on your HD2, as I mentioned before HoMM2 (best game ever!) works absolutely great and is fully playable with your fingers.
 
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aszu said:
On QEMU/Win95 version I attached there is a full keyboard (it uses toolbar-full.qtb)
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Indeed, I actually had it too, just needed to select it in plugins_ini.txt.
But I did switch to your build, seems more recent than the russian forum one.
However, on the full toolbar my "magic button" isn't there anymore? Oh well, at least we can dynamically switch toolbar in this build... but none of them seem to have support for the "-net user" option we'd need to get network access...
 
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kilrah said:
Indeed, I actually had it too, just needed to select it in plugins_ini.txt.
But I did switch to your build, seems more recent than the russian forum one.
However, on the full toolbar my "magic button" isn't there anymore? Oh well, at least we can dynamically switch toolbar in this build... but none of them seem to have support for the "-net user" option we'd need to get network access...
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Heh, this 'magic button' on full size keyboard is located just under virtual 'mouse keys'. It looks like horizontal bar.

Yeah, unfortunately there is still no network support.. We have to somehow force mamaich (donations? :p ) to continue work on this emu! :D
 
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This ROCKS :) Windows 95 on the HD2, and it works kinda great. If the mouse buttons were a bit bigger, navigating would be even easyer.

But what to use if for, could we install apps and games on it?

If we could install games, connect an bluetooth mouse (keyboard?) this would be the ultimate geek app for me :D
 
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I have a bluetooth keyboard that I just received, tried to use it but not much success so far... some special keys work (arrows, enter, escape) but none of the actual letter keys do. Problematic :D
 
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"Possible but too heavy". 98 already takes 15-20sec to open an explorer window...
 
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guys, make sure you have installed the cirrus graphic drivers properly, it makes big difference,win95 works really fast in 16 bits with those drivers,win98 needs more memory, make sure you have given plenty of it in the qemu settings, Qemu has some issues at accesing and writing data, it seem to stall,

there are great apps and games to try, as I already wrote before Starcraft Broodwars runs on it,with the full units, missions packs etc... and the speed is surprisingly good ingame, the biggest issue is the clunky interface for the keyboard and the mouse, really needs to be developed for the HD2 multitouch.

i have also tried civilization 2 and theme hospital with good speed.

but there are plenty more that comes to my mind like c&c red alert, total anihilation,settler2 etc... basically any game of around mid 90s, maybe even newer....
 
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miko3d said:
guys, make sure you have installed the cirrus graphic drivers properly, it makes big difference,win95 works really fast in 16 bits with those drivers,win98 needs more memory, make sure you have given plenty of it in the qemu settings, Qemu has some issues at accesing and writing data, it seem to stall,

there are great apps and games to try, as I already wrote before Starcraft Broodwars runs on it,with the full units, missions packs etc... and the speed is surprisingly good ingame, the biggest issue is the clunky interface for the keyboard and the mouse, really needs to be developed for the HD2 multitouch.

i have also tried civilization 2 and theme hospital with good speed.

but there are plenty more that comes to my mind like c&c red alert, total anihilation,settler2 etc... basically any game of around mid 90s, maybe even newer....
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How do you install games with this emulator? I don't seem to get access to the memory card from My computer?
 
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Whahahaha..... :D

I had the blue screen on it.... Pitty I did not have a camera within my reach....

Cool.... :D
 
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xiniyo

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magic mouse

can it use the bluetooth of the phone ??
so i can use my magic mouse and logitech keyboard:D
 
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mmmalas

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can someone upload a video of booting \ usage. it will got alot of publicity for sure :)
 
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sorry for being an idiot but i opend the qemu launcher and i selected stor card/qemu/emul/win95 n nuthing happens wen i hit launch any tips?
 
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im sure someoneon here could modify the qemu slightly lik make the keybourd so tht it pops up wen u clik sumthin and obviously bigger than it is now and make it fullscreen n stuff
 
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    Windows 98 running fine on wimo qemu

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    ~~~~~~~~~ just disable "mstask.exe" ~~~~~~~~~

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    I had trouble again with mouse behaviour on qemu folder I tried to include. Another few hours without sleep but it is finished and I try to upload on mega. I already tried to upload on the xda-developers.ch account but it allows only 60 mb and I have about 202 mb. I hope mega upload will work.

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    You could use additional hdd, cdrom or floppy images to install software. You could also boot this on qemu desktop to get online if you need updates or something like that.

    It includes a qemu version optimized for this image, very fast with a nice UI and usefull toolbars, I hope it is easy to install and will work for all.

    Just follow the steps 1-5 in the folders.

    Memory is set to 192 mb, if it does not start try to reboot phone first or set mb to 128. For me it works nice with up to 220 mb and I copy my sd card full only about 50 mb free so qemu could not create big swap file and is running faster in ram. Sometimes it does not start with "could not allocate memory" message but after rebooting HD2 it works nice again.

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    Information for a possible new QEMU Emulation Thread.

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    nice will test it! Dam I was still hoping for 800x480. Still locking for standard vga driver for 98 and cirrus driver for xp. If you enable hardware accelleration on cirrus on Win98 everything on desktop is shon somhere else so it is impossible to use it. May be standard vga just dont do this because on standard driver is no hardware acceleration at all.

    You are right we should create a new clean howto thread with overview in entry post. Let me know if I could help. May be we could better create a Wiki page?
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    So sorry for waiting but I dont want to do this again.

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