#153617 - SG1anubis007 - Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:05 pm
I came across the mention of psp owners able to use a port of windows 95 on their psp. Is it possible for this to be done on the nintendo ds. Maybe someone can develope a port of this for the ds.The first problem I can think of is the legality of porting this to the ds. Maybe people can only use this legaly if they own a windows 95 computer.
Here is the site for information on running windows 95 on the psp
http://www.hacker.co.il/psp/bochs/
the website listed above also makes mention that it is a port of this
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
that is used to run windows 95 on the psp. Maybe it can be used similar to lazyones port of mini vmac for the ds.
#153620 - sonny_jim - Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:54 pm
I've actually ported bochs to DSLinux before and it nearly runs, but it had troubles with the small screen size, being mostly garbage displayed. I hate to think how slowly it would boot though. Probably something in the region of hours.
#153691 - tepples - Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:05 am
| SG1anubis007 wrote: |
| I came across the mention of psp owners able to use a port of windows 95 on their psp. Is it possible for this to be done on the nintendo ds. |
PSP: 333 MHz. DS: 20% of that.
PSP: 32 MB of RAM. DS: 12% of that without a SLOT-2 RAM card.
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#153704 - SG1anubis007 - Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:03 am
Thats to bad. It may be cool to create a simple windows 95 themed homebrew loader that can be loaded by default on your ds and then just used as a file browser with a windows 95 theme. I wouldn't mind making some graphics for this program if somebody wants to program it. Just make sure that it is supported by the R4 :)
Just thought of something. If somebody is going to program this, lets make it a vista theme not just a windows 95 theme. Something with icons and a start menu.
#153717 - sonny_jim - Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:21 pm
How come everybody gets such a hardon for themes/skins?
#153722 - simonjhall - Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:54 pm
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| How come everybody gets such a hardon for themes/skins? |
I can't think of a funny to accompany this ;-)
QFT anyway!
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#153723 - Rajveer - Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:31 pm
Because we've all got a bit of a graphics whore inside of us!
#153856 - no2pencil - Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:07 am
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| How come everybody gets such a hardon for themes/skins? |
It allows everyone to feel like they had a hand in creation. It makes it their own.
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#153928 - jester - Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:54 pm
It can do dos though lol.
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#164589 - g14 - Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:30 pm
Maybe this will be possible with the DSi if Homebrew gets ported onto that, as well. It'd possibly be easier with SD Card support [Woot!!]
If you've not heard of the DSi, google "Nintendo DSi". It's already out in japan...Lucky them...
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#164591 - silent_code - Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:27 pm
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| How come everybody gets such a hardon for themes/skins? |
Thanks for the good laugh!
And yes: I also ask that myself sometimes.
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#164593 - Kyoufu Kawa - Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:50 am
| g14 wrote: |
| It's already out in japan...Lucky them... |
...Lucky? Depends on your goals, I guess.
#164596 - g14 - Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:36 am
True, because A: They need the money to buy it, and B: They need an ability to hack it, and also, C: [insert another response here...]
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#164632 - Miked0801 - Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:10 pm
Why? Good God why would you want to port a lameass OS to something that is so far out of its baseline specs? Nothing good will come of it. It reminds me of slashdot beowolf cluster talk.
#164636 - nanou - Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:35 pm
| Miked0801 wrote: |
| Why? Good God why would you want to port a lameass OS to something that is so far out of its baseline specs? Nothing good will come of it. It reminds me of slashdot beowolf cluster talk. |
But... but... just imagine running wine on a beowulf cluster of DSis!!!!
Okay, I'm done.
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#164638 - no2pencil - Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:59 am
Windows 95 hardly ran on an Intel 80486 66 MHz. I can hardly imagine that it would run at all well on ARM architecture. But that's just me.
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#164641 - mreaves - Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:17 pm
| no2pencil wrote: |
| Windows 95 hardly ran on an Intel 80486 66 MHz. I can hardly imagine that it would run at all well on ARM architecture. But that's just me. |
Well if you don't have a floating point co-pro on the 486 I'd pit the 66meg Arm9 against it.
But that is not what the problem would be, memory would just not be enough.
#164651 - Kyoufu Kawa - Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:08 pm
Why would you seriously want to run Windows 95 on anything at all in the first place?
You could at least aim high and try, say, Windows 2000.
#164660 - sverx - Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:11 pm
| no2pencil wrote: |
| Windows 95 hardly ran on an Intel 80486 66 MHz. I can hardly imagine that it would run at all well on ARM architecture. But that's just me. |
I had Win 3.11 on my 386 @ 25 MHz with 4MB Ram... but I don't see any reason to deal with that again on my DS ;)
#164725 - tepples - Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:19 am
Just thinking about running x86 Windows on an ARM CPU makes me want to wince.
Speaking of wince, I have a better idea: Why not just run Windows CE, which is already compiled for ARM?
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