pDOSBox R2 beta 2.0 review (pocket pc)

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pDOSBox is a PocketPC port of the infamous DOSBox DOS-emulator.

License: Freeware
OS: Windows Mobile PocketPC
File size: 1314K
Developer: Wall      
Price: $0.00
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pDOSBox R2 beta 2.0 is emulators software developed by Wall.
pDOSBox is a PocketPC port of the infamous DOSBox DOS-emulator. pDOSBox 0.63-p1 is based on the latest DOSBox 0.63 (as of April 2005).
pDOSBox has been developed on a PocketPC 2003 SE, and it should also run just as well on PocketPC 2002.

Like DOSBox, pDOSBox emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, DOS-like directory filesystem/XMS/EMS, mouse/joystick and EGA/VGA/VESA graphics system. The DOS o/s being emulated is rather rudimentary, but good enough to launch your favorite DOS applications, and even batch-file-driven DOS applications. You may choose to install other o/s like MSDOS, FreeBSD, Linux, etc on top of the CPU emulator.

Unlike DOSBox, sound system emulation (SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card) is not available in pDOSBox. This may change in future ports depending on popular demand.

pDOSBox is statically linked to SDL library. And pDOSBox can be run off your Storage Card. This means you need not install some user dll or executable into the precious storage memory of your device.

Stylus (mouse) alignment
For games that use mouse interrupt, the cursor will appear to be constantly (rather than linearly) offset against the tap position of your stylus. With such a game, you will need to do a simple alignment task in order to get an "accurate" stylus/cursor corelation.

If the cursor always appears on the top-left area of the stylus tap, simply tap on the top-left corner of the screen. Likewise, if the cursor always appear on the top-right area of the stylus tap, simply tap on the top-right corner of the screen. Easy.

Reminder
- Delete all Beta 1.0 files before installing Beta 2.0.
- Please read the text documentation in the config file.
- Please install pDOSBox manually via "Start Menu" (see readme.txt in the zip file)
- Do not install pocket console.
- Do not run pDOSBox with a virtual display driver or SE_VGA activated.
- Do not rename the install files.
- Do not delete the files in the "data" directory
What's new in this release:

  • GUS sound card working properly.
  • Sound stuttering reduced.
  • Support for newer games that use mouse interrupt (instead of mouse polling). However, need to do mouse alignment (see below).
  • Graceful exit on errors, with a popup window to display error message instead of just crash silently. Don't need pocket console to catch error message.
  • Soft Keypad button-blink lockups eliminated.
  • PPC navigation buttons can be used to display different toolbars (left/righ buttons), and to popup/popdown the scrolling keypad (up/down buttons). Don't need to scroll when popped up.
  • A simple frontend to detect screen size, CPU type and clock speed, and screen orientation.
  • DOS memory allocation (memsize) can be set to auto which will attempt to allocation as much as possible (up to 8MB) without crashing.
  • Simplified config file now truly works out-of-the-box with the auto-detection done by the frontend.
  • Emulated CPU cycles automatically increased accordingly when sound is disable. (only when cycles = auto)
  • Sound is automatically disabled if a low end PPC (ARM <400 MHZ) is detected.
  • Support DOS memory size of up to 8MB on a fairly clean PPC easily (except for the newer X50V which can only manage 7MB due to its inherent fragmentation of memory)
  • pDOSBox can be started in either portrait or landscape mode.
  • Support for all ARM (including XScale) devices.

    Requirements:
  • Windows Mobile 2003 SE
    This emulators software is freeware, which means you can download and use pDOSBox R2 beta 2.0 absolutely free. There's no need to buy the product. pDOSBox R2 beta 2.0 supports different languages (including english). It works with Windows Mobile PocketPC.

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