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S40 Dosbox?

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First post, by Doraemon

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Anyone thinking to make a S40 version of dosbox?
Since there are still many people that not rich...
Hopefully anyone pro in java can write on it...
There are some s40 dosbox i found on internet,
1 is called "JPC (Sourceforge)" and another one is called as "Mobile DOS (Mobile9.com)"
but "JPC" required 10mb java heap (most of s40 phone only have about 1~2mb), and "Mobile DOS" only run BASIC program but not EXE...
so people that doesn't have s60 can run some basic DOS game too...
so really hopefully someone can write it 😀

Reply 1 of 10, by keropi

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S40 is not really fast enough for dosbox... even if it was it would only be limited to java....

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Reply 3 of 10, by DosFreak

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Doraemon wrote:

Since there are still many people that not rich...

DOSBox works fine on Athlon XP and above computers.

Use a computer for DOSBox, not a phone. Then you don't have to be "rich".

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Reply 4 of 10, by dada

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If Dosbox can't run properly on a phone then JPC surely isn't going to, either. It's a nice emulator but it's not nearly as optimized as Dosbox is. Besides that it has major compatibility problems.

Reply 6 of 10, by dada

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Get a 9" Netbook. Or a PSP, it can run Dosbox and play EGA games decently (not really VGA though, last I checked, they're too slow). Either way, the only way you're gonna run DOS games on your phone is if you wait about 7 years for them to become fast enough.

Reply 7 of 10, by Dominus

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dosbox has been ported to java

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
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Reply 9 of 10, by Freddo

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I've tried the native S60 executable of DOSBox on my S60 phone and it was too slow to do run pretty much every DOS game made after 1992. Running a java version on a S40 phone would be several times slower, and therefore rather pointless and not really worth the effort.

Reply 10 of 10, by Xelasarg

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Absolutely impossible. S40 phones aren't even powerful enough to run a native DOSBox port.
Get yourself a fast and cheap Android phone (e.g. Samsung Vibrant), those are powerful enough to run modern classics like Doom or Ultima Underworld.

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