First post, by acidspunk
Topic. Please? 😊
Topic. Please? 😊
probably
Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!
yay 😁 thank you x)
I would gladly, but I dunno how.. 😢 Is the difficulty hardware related?
DOSBox uses SDL for most of its IO. I doubt that an SDL port exists for Symbian OS. Having some programming experience with Symbian OS and a lot with Windows/Unix, I can say that Symbian requires a very different coding style. It would not be an easy port to this platform. The hardware itself isn't really the major issue, but it does make testing etc. a lot more difficult.
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There seems to be some SDL ports for Symbian:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/haviital/index.shtml?projects_sdl
Though I do not know anything about how good they are... I do not have any Symbian device myself...
Mirek
I have just checked again how it is with SDL ports for Symbian, there seems to be a new SDL port for S60 3rd Edition. It is a part of C2Doom project on:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/index_new.html
There are links to download SDL sources/binary but they are wrong (upper/lower letters confusion), here are the correct ones:
koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/downloads/SDL_BIN(1.0).ZIP
http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/downloads/SDL_source.zip
I have no possibility to test it (not having Symbian phone), I just report it here in case anybody finds it usefull. I wonder whether it would be possible to build DOSBOX with it.
I plan to buy a smartphone next year and I decide myself between Symbian and Windows. I like Nokia phones, but I am put off by very bad software support for Symbian (at least in the area I am interested in - e.g. emulators - the only DOS emulator for Symbian I found was for Nokia communicators only and even that was quite old, PocketDOS promises Symbian version in vague future and DOSBOX was not ported at all as far as I know).
I am under no illusion that 200 Mhz processor would do miracles, but I think it should be enough for PC XT games.
Mirek