Port DOS game to PSP ... WITHOUT SOURCE?

[kelrith]

Hi. I am new to the psp and C++ Development scene and I was wondering how easy it would be to port a dos game to PSP. If not a direct port then maybe some sort of DOS emulator for the PSP. Specifically this game by the name of Digger. Not sure if anyone else knows of it, so here is a link to in... LINKY (http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/puzzle_games/games_c_d/diggers.html)

[kando]

there are 2 dos emulators out there, both of which suck....

dosbox and bochs, which can both be found under the "emulators" section of dcemu psp site...under x86...

but they are both SLOW AS CRAP.

if you can find some way to port a better working DOS environment that would KICK ASS!

its definatly needed. im not sure the complications of it, but im sure someone here can explain it better :)

i wanna play moraff's world, space quest 5, kings quest 7, space ace, hocus pocus, warcraft....the list goes on.

i actually made a post a while back about me getting warcraft 1 to run off of dosbox...

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=35769&highlight=warcraft

lemme know if anything works out for ya :)

[skater9269]

when you say new to c++ do you mean completley or to the psp if you are completley new to c and c++ you are most definatley not even close to ready to take on any emulator project.please explain your knowledge of c++ do you understand classes pointers,and all that good stuff...

btw are any of the psp dos emus open source.

[kelrith]

when you say new to c++ do you mean completley or to the psp if you are completley new to c and c++ you are most definatley not even close to ready to take on any emulator project.please explain your knowledge of c++ do you understand classes pointers,and all that good stuff...

btw are any of the psp dos emus open source.


When I say new, I means new to C++ entirely. I am a generally fast learner and I have some experience with web programming and some of Java. I understand that there is no way I could make an entire emulator myself at this stage, but I suppose I could help out or something like that...

EDIT: Am I even on the right track assuming that the base to the emulator could be ported from the open source DOS (FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/))?

[kando]

kelrith: in theory yes. however, like in other threads i've read, if you are new to C++, you will want to practice with the PC first, as porting the program to work specifically with the psp hardware/software is quite the task.

but yea, freedos looks like it may do it!

[yaustar]

FreeDOS is a complete OS. Porting a X86 OS to the PSP is NOT easy which was why both DosBox and Boches was ported.

You be better off making a clone of the game instead.