Bochs Ported to PSP, Use Windows 95 on your PSP

**shadowprophet** · August 15th, 2005, 15:27

Ive been for two days now, working out some bugs ive got in my windows 95 install. To this emu. at first I only had bad sectors on my hard drive image. I thought that was really odd. Now it takes forever to scandisk one of those images within the emu. So I went to sleep last night letting it scan. Upon wakeing up this morning. My pc was locked up. Nothing would bring it out of this, So like most peope I went to plan B, I just cut the power and let it reboot.
Only to hear this awful low pitch beep. Now this is not a normal beep like booting up a pc, This was a low pitch beep.If youve worked on a few systems you start to learn, that all those beeps have a different meaning. This was unmistakibly a memory error. So I droped to cmos set it to slow memory scan. So I could see the problem. Only to find out half my system memory was fried!

Now normaly this could be called a coiencidence. But system memory doesnt fry for just any reason

And since this program was the only thing I had going on,
I assume that this is what did this. now im not asking everyone to be careful. And watch out and all that damn jazz. Im not stateing anything but the facts. Cause I know if I did people are gonna come out of the freaking woodworks telling me how this and that and all kinds of other bull$#@!. I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!. And I know this isnt normal. And I blame this program. Or my abuse of this program. At any rate. there you have it . The solid facts

And one pissed off shadowprophet

Update. Umm boy this is really hard to admit too, but I feel it necessary.
upon troubleshooting, and removeing my memory and reseating it. my memory is now recognized, and working fully

. I already feel enough like a novice for not doing this earlier. But the problem still seems to be connected somhow with bochs. Still it didnt fry my memory, which is good

However im going to leave this post as a shrine to remember how I made that novice mistake- that morning_ and didnt do the first thing any tech should do.troubleshoot.

Shadowprophet. Cause he shouldnt touch a pc,untill hes wide awake

**shadowprophet** · August 16th, 2005, 04:25

So I finely got windows 95 going on my psp. Its spiffy I guess, But theres mouse problems, And since there is no type of keyboard input im pretty much stuck at the desktop. Anybody figured out how to make the mouse work right ?

update. Well ive been reading around, the mouse thing seems to be a common problem, hmm. oh well, I feel better that at least I got windows working on the thing. Time for my next project, Lua here I come again

**Chimple** · August 16th, 2005, 14:11

Well, I've finally managed to get DOS 6.22 working, with Dune 2.

Command and Conquer just resets bochs, warcraft needs a return press (I think) to continue, so they're no good

Dune is running at a good 1.3 fps, I'm sure an old 286 would give it a run for its money, but at least its working, I'm impressed anyway!

**Illuga** · August 16th, 2005, 15:26

Shadow get yourself into the start menu / programs / accessories / accessibility /on screen keyboard (thats the xp location but it should be somewhere like that on win95).

Should give it a little more functionality.

**indstr** · August 16th, 2005, 16:42

Originally Posted by Chimple

Well, I've finally managed to get DOS 6.22 working, with Dune 2.

Command and Conquer just resets bochs, warcraft needs a return press (I think) to continue, so they're no good

Dune is running at a good 1.3 fps, I'm sure an old 286 would give it a run for its money, but at least its working, I'm impressed anyway!

good to know. maybe we can play old 8088 games like alley cat and bouncing babies at decent speeds though

**shadowprophet** · August 16th, 2005, 17:41

Originally Posted by Illuga

Shadow get yourself into the start menu / programs / accessories / accessibility /on screen keyboard (thats the xp location but it should be somewhere like that on win95).

Should give it a little more functionality.

thanx bro

**Valiant** · August 16th, 2005, 17:47

shoot I truely look forward to this working well. Man this would own a Pocket PC regarding all its new homebrew stuff.

**Cap'n 1time** · August 16th, 2005, 18:08

Originally Posted by shadowprophet

So I finely got windows 95 going on my psp. Its spiffy I guess, But theres mouse problems, And since there is no type of keyboard input im pretty much stuck at the desktop. Anybody figured out how to make the mouse work right ?

update. Well ive been reading around, the mouse thing seems to be a common problem, hmm. oh well, I feel better that at least I got windows working on the thing. Time for my next project, Lua here I come again

there is somthing in the bochblah*.bxrc file that says:

Code:

mouse: enabled=0

chang it to

Code:

mouse: enabled=1

I think that will fix you.

**shadowprophet** · August 16th, 2005, 19:01

thanx guys

got windows working and I learned how to use the mouse

and by the way 1timeuser lol my mouse was dissabled in the config file lol

I must have forgot to enable it lol. I say that I learned how because it does work

It just seems to have very poor calibration. But thats okay once you get used to it its seconed nature

Ive took all my files and work, striped it down to barebones. meaning there isnt anything for the a drive or the cd rom anymore. Just the boot from c and the hard drive image itself. And Ive backed it up on to a cd with every directory and config file, ready to be copied over the the psp. I called it psp win95.
all ziped up its only about 110 megs. And I will never have to go through this horible experience ever again.. and if it where allowed I would be happy to host this file for people. but I assume hosting such a thing would get me banned

**NeoXCS** · August 17th, 2005, 09:23

Dune 2 was slow and C&C didnt work! Darn, i was looking forward to trying the original Command & Conquer! Oh well, back to just playing around with console emulators.