Dosbox

[markg1]

does anyone know if there are any plans to release dosbox on psp?

for those of you that dont know dosbox is a bit like the scummvm emulator in that it will let you play PC games from the mid-nineties and run other applications

i would love to play gabriel knight and other classic games on PSP

[markg1]

actually i managed to find a version, does anyone know if any games are compatable yet?

"Here is what he had to say: This patch, when applied to dosbox 0.60 and linked with these library functions, arwin's p-sprint and SDL (with 8-bit surface patch), gets dosbox running on the psp. Later versions use an array too large to fit in the PSP memory for indexing memory pages while this version has high level emulation of dpmi. I've tested simcity 2000 and tie fighter and they run although very slowly, a lot of optimization will be need if this will be usable. Note that stat fails if the root of the memory stick is what is being checked therefore it cannot be mounted. Mounting ms0:/psp works fine though. Also there is currently no mouse or joystick support. You don’t need to do all the patching and searching, you can get the ready to go file below"

i spose not then, it looks like ive answered my own question, lol

but i still dont know if there are any plans to get it running properly, it seems like homebrewers have forgot about this port which could be the best emu of the lot

[Hardrive]

got a link 2 this or anything???

[Realn0whereman]

ok . ive been experimenting with dosbox for a long time and theres nothing that will work...... maybe some really crappy games and theyll go at 2-3 fps

[markg1]

ok

psp patch here
http://files.pspupdates.qj.net/cgi-b...,0,0,0,17,1182

be carefull though cos i havent tried this patch and the file looks uneccercerily large to me


here is where to get dosbox
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1

i asume if the patch is for real you just patch the windows version of dosbox?

i dunno i spose there will be a readme, im not too bothered about trying it till it has analogue stick support

[markg1]

Originally Posted by realn0whereman

ok . ive been experimenting with dosbox for a long time and theres nothing that will work...... maybe some really crappy games and theyll go at 2-3 fps

thats a damn shame, i asume it would work if someone wanted to do it though cos it works on crappy pocket pcs with lower specs than a psp

and scummvm emulation is excellent on psp

[markg1]

This is the thread from the guy whos working on it, unfortunatly it doesnt look like it will be as good as the scumm virtual machine for psp

http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.p...556c79c47aaab8

which means no gabrial knight etc on psp

[Realn0whereman]

yeah it means no alot of things