MetaView

A 0.5 scaler is the next I will implement...

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mmulhern

Hardbuttons Results:
Datebook := nothing
Address := nothing
ToDo:= Toggle Virtual Keyboard (Hurrah!)
Memo:= Exit (sometimes to Home other times to Memo Pad????)

Softbuttons Results:
Home := nothing
Menu := nothing
Calc := nothing
Find := nothing

Let me see what doco is available so I can find out how to load floppy and CD images, and setup config file.

I think I'm going to really like this!!

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MetaView

Joystick Button 1 and 2. In the next update you can also define 2 other keys for use in cursor-move mode.



Will be fixed in the next update.

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Thanks for the update. Just been over to the EMU forum, read the quick guide and set-up dosbox.conf, and basic folders for CDRIVE. Copied these to the root of my Memory Stick, and it is working.

Next stop, drag out my old CIV1 installer CD and set it up.

What would be interesting (though somewhat perverse) is that later versions of DOSBox support the installation and running of Windows 3.x, which I do on my MacBook Pro to play my old copy of Civ2. . . . . .

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AletheianAlex

First off, THANX for ressurecting palmdosbox. I have a few questions though.

First... a VERY important feature for the next update... a feature that would make it 1,000x easier to run would be adding / and \ and " to the keyboard!!! I searched high and low, and could enter a bunch of crazy symbols with the ALT key, but no slashes or quotes. Without it, you can't mount or change directories.

BUT... my question is: in the meantime you have to mount in the autoexec section... fine... BUT: how do you get a directory to mount in the [autoexec] section?!! I have tried everything and I can't get it to happen. I have been using dosbox for years on OSX, Linux and Windows so I am used to the syntax, and always use the autoexec to automount, but I can't get it to work in this case. I am trying to get it to run on my E2, and here is what I have tried:

mount c c:~/

mount c c:"~/"

mount c c:~\

mount c c:"~\"

mount c ~/

mount c "~/"

mount c ~\

mount c "~\"

mount c d:~/

mount c d:"~/"

mount c d:~\

mount c d:"~\"

None of those worked, so I tried creating a DOS directory in the top level of my SD card and also in the top level of my internal card as well as the hidden internal memory and tried:


mount c c:~/DOS

mount c c:"~/DOS"

mount c c:/DOS

mount c c:"/DOS"

mount c ~/DOS

mount c "~/DOS"

mount c /DOS

mount c "/DOS"

mount c d:~/DOS

mount c d:"~/DOS"

mount c d:/DOS

mount c d:"/DOS"

NONE of those options worked!!! I always got an error saying:

Directory <whichever option I tried> doesn't exist

I also tried following the mount line up with :

Set Path=C:\DOS;Z:\
C:

and also PRE-ceeding that like with and without:

@Echo Off

And NOTHING NOTHING works. it took about 4 hours to try all that because i have to open the dosbox.conf file in a text editor, change it, soft reboot and launch after every option!

So PLEASE someone bail me out! Is this user error, or is it a problem with my PALM E2? Just to get it straight... is this the setup that SHOULD work?:

-Install PalmDOSBox.prc on your main PALM internal memory, not your SD card?
-create a folder on the top level of your SD card to mount as your C drive?
-create dosbox.conf and put it on your SD card, top level?

I tried all permutations... disbox on SD and on PALM and under programs on PALM, c drive folder on SD, on PALM, in the launcher folder, in the programs folder, etc etc...

Thank you!

MetaView

"mount c dos" is doing the trick...

And you are right, the on-screen keyboard is missing several things. It's already fixed and I will release it when I got the time to work further on it, next week, I hope...

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RATS! doesn't work for me. I tried 3 different brand SD cards too. Maybe it is an E2 specific problem. I'll keep trying


EDIT:

I found the problem. I'll post it in case it helps someone else. If I load the SD card into a reader and create directories on it, and then insert the card into my PALM, then DOSbox can't read them. Strange. So I have to create a directory in FileZ and then use that.

Then I have to use EXACTLY this syntax:

[autoexec]
@Echo Off
Mount C "/DOS"
C:

If I do that, it mounts properly, BUT I get an error message:

Drive C is mounted as local directory /DOS
Illegal command dirC:\;Z:\.
Illegal command C:S;Z:\.

It still works though, so I don't know what that whole error mess is about.

Thanx

Murrfk

I can't get this to run on a Tungsten E2. If I try to run the program, I get the famous"

Fatal Alert

Bitmap.c, Line:1406,
BmpCreateBitmapV3:
invalid NULL argument

Reset

error.

I can get around this error by running UDMH (which I have heard reports should not be run on an E2 for fear of disastrous irrecoverable errors on an E2). I can then get the DOSBOX screen, but when I hit the start button, I get a "Insufficient Ram. Try more realistic settings" dialog box, which makes me think UDMH is not working properly with the E2.

Any suggestions? Am I missing something?

icefireicefire

UDMH is SAFE on the E|2. The bricking was only <5.0, but dmitry fixed that.

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Thanks. I have had no problems with UDMH, but I still can't get past the opening start with Dosbox.

_Em

Someone (I think Metaview) compiled a version with working on-screen keyboard support. You have to either use this, or create an autoexec.bat to launch the files/change to C:.

You'll also likely have to change some of the memory settings, even WITH UDMH and CleanStart.

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