dos emulator?

[kando]

isnt there a way someone could emulate dos? i mean doing so would allow you to run all the old dos games....and of course it would use one of those text enterer things for keystroke simulations....i for one would LOVE to play moraff's world on the psp =p

any thoughts?

[Wally]

Good idea but people are having trouble with dosbox, not working like it should..

[pkmaximum]

I wouldn't understand though why DOX Box wouldn't be a possible emulation for the PSP. Hopefully someone will come around and port it correctly that way many users can correctly enjoy it.

[Wally]

Well giving the limitations of the PSP, with no keyboard etc.

Some games only require
Space bar - Triangle
Control - X
Alt - O
Enter - Square
Shift L - L
Shift R - R
and maybe a mouse (Nub)

I think dosbox's source is coded for X86 however there is an OSX port out there for PPC. I dont see why it couldnt be ported from that.

I myself would love to play commander keen 4, the lion king, aladdin, Theme Park, Theme hospital, Dungeon Keeper right from my PSP

[ACID]

Well wally you mention the buttons it uses and the mouse so the psp has 6 buttons , control pad and analog. So it has more then plenty to use to play the games. Just like amiga , C64 , atari st and so on.

[RetroGoth]

man a dosbox emulator for the psp would be a dream come true. I just can't get enough commander keen

[steve-b]

I have dreams of playing tie fighter on my psp

[Wally]

Im gunna try something.

It might work.

[bugggeroff]

Come on guys, the Nintendo DS can do it, what's stopping the all powerful PSP? =P

Naah, I can actually appreciate the difficulties here, porting is a hard buisness.

[Wally]

Anyone ever thought of using Bochs with the freedos image?

If someone could get the source for bochs and reprogram the keys then it would work nicely!