Friday 21 January 2011

DroidDOS - what is cooking?

Based on the marvelous works of aDosbox guys, MotoCakers (Z6 Dosbox), Koli Joco (S60 Dosbox), and my own experience (on DosboxUIQ and ROKR E8 dosbox), im now cooking a DroidDOS. A dosbox emulator port for Android devices without a physical keyboard. Its more or less working now, on my own phone, but not yet at the stage to be shared with the outside world. What will be the key enhancements to aDosbox, you may ask. Well, here they are:
  • support for mouse (I hope to get both the stylus touch mouse and touchpad like mouse simulation),
  • support for onscreen virtual keyboard (with several switchable layouts).
  • support for oversize screens (i.e. im targeting HVGA devices, that will have a 320x200 DOS window with 640x400 modes shrinked, or paged/tiled).
  • pan window automatically following mouse (in oversize mode),
  • configurable from DosBox app (RAM, CPU, cycles, oversize mode, button sizes, etc)
  • memory optimizations.
  • dedicated builds for ARMv5/6 and ARMv7.
Stay tuned for more news. I hope to release it to public (free .apk) by end of January.

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