Bochs Ported to PSP, Use Windows 95 on your PSP

**shadowprophet** · August 14th, 2005, 17:29

After i created an image of my windows 95 cd, and configured the file correctly to make it think it was a cdrom in freedos, Which is easy to do by the way here check this out

################################################## #############
# Windows 95
################################################## #############
# how much memory the emulated machine will have
megs: 8
# filename of ROM images
romimage: file=C:/bochs-2.2.1/BIOS-bochs-latest, address=0xf0000
vgaromimage: file=C:/bochs-2.2.1/VGABIOS-lgpl-latest
#floppy
floppya: 1_44=C:/bochs-2.2.1/do.img, status=inserted (1.44M 3.5" floppy)
#cd
ata0-slave: type=cdrom, path="C:/bochs-2.2.1/win.img", status=inserted
# hard disk
ata0: enabled=1, ioaddr1=0x1f0, ioaddr2=0x3f0, irq=14
ata0-master: type=disk, path="C:/bochs-2.2.1/c.img", mode=flat, cylinders=406, heads=16, spt=63
# choose the boot disk.
boot: a
# where do we send log messages?
log: ms0:/VM/bochsout.txt
# disable the mouse, since DLX is text only
mouse: enabled=0
# enable key mapping, using US layout as default.
#
# NOTE: In Bochs 1.4, keyboard mapping is only 100% implemented on X windows.
# However, the key mapping tables are used in the paste function, so
# in the DLX Linux example I'm enabling keyboard_mapping so that paste
# will work. Cut&Paste is currently implemented on win32 and X windows only.
#keyboard_mapping: enabled=1, map=$BXSHARE/keymaps/x11-pc-us.map
#keyboard_mapping: enabled=1, map=$BXSHARE/keymaps/x11-pc-fr.map
#keyboard_mapping: enabled=1, map=$BXSHARE/keymaps/x11-pc-de.map
#keyboard_mapping: enabled=1, map=$BXSHARE/keymaps/x11-pc-es.map

Then I switched to drive e: which is my image of win 95,, to come across a problem i have no answer for. bad sectors , Now this is a virtual hard drive, So there for should have no bad sectors , but look at the pic, this is messed up ppl

i dont know what to do from this point

**shadowprophet** · August 14th, 2005, 17:46

But pray for me guys

. the problem seemed to be , DONT SCANDISK WHAT EVER YOU DO

btw . im really sorry for the large pics, I was so busy with this, I didnt notice I saved them in bmp format and had already uploaded them sorry guys

**Tomppa** · August 14th, 2005, 19:07

Now everyone has been trying Windows 95 and various DOS versions. Noone cares about 3.1? It should be light and small, am I right? If I would have a PSP, I would not be here asking. Thank Sony for the 1st of september date. I'm sorry if I missed the post where someone said that will it work on 2.0, so I ask it now. And will the emulator let (future or now) i.e. windows acces Wi-Fi just like it would acces it on a USB-Wi-Fi adapter? Lets hope they make a USB keyboard soon!

Notice: My first post!

**innerlogic** · August 14th, 2005, 19:11

Originally Posted by Tomppa

Now everyone has been trying Windows 95 and various DOS versions. Noone cares about 3.1? It should be light and small, am I right?

Well, you need DOS to issue a command to load the 3.1 GUI, so you need a keyboard, which is not supported right now.

**poison2003** · August 14th, 2005, 19:14

i was wondering how about if there is a linux live umd like a live disk to run from boot is it possible??

**shadowprophet** · August 14th, 2005, 19:17

you might have a point about 3.1 being faster.

The problem I forsee however. Is that this program emulates a virtual dos system, And inside the confines of that you could probibly do a lot of nice things. But just adding or installing information would be a hassle, Because windows wont be able to access files outside its virtual playground, meaning
that its really not gonna be able to access any of the psps features in any way shape or form. Just to add somthing like a windows program or dos, even a text file. You would have to update the hard drive image file to do this.

Still tho, this is pretty nice

**p4ch3c0** · August 14th, 2005, 20:50

Originally Posted by innerlogic

Well, you need DOS to issue a command to load the 3.1 GUI, so you need a keyboard, which is not supported right now.

Wouldn't adding win to autoexec.bat work? I would try it, but my computer that runs Windows 3.1 had to be formatted and the floppy disks are corrupted

Originally Posted by Tomppa

I'm sorry if I missed the post where someone said that will it work on 2.0, so I ask it now.

NEWS FLASH: You can't run any unsigned app on firmware 2.0. You chose to upgrade, so you gotta stick with it now.

**parabolee** · August 14th, 2005, 20:50

After reading all this, I think I'll hang on till the nest version with some speed improvments before go through all this effort just to see a really slow version of Windows 95 running on my PSP.

I am eager though to get some DOS games running on it. But again I'll hang on for the second release. He says we should see adecent speed improvment when he fixes the resoloution settings alone.

Fantastic work though, this could be the best thing on PSP by far if it reaches it's potential.

Imagine being able to network with your home PC and run files from it! Like movie files etc. Imagine surfing the net from Windows at a decent speed! That would be better than 2.00 browsing!

Think of all the Windows Apps that we could take advantage of!

Vary exciting stuff, let's just hope it develops into more than a novelty.

Anyone manage to run any DOS games yet? Could they let us know what kind of speeds they run at?

**vegenigma** · August 14th, 2005, 20:55

I will definitely try some DOS games once I know how

**souls85** · August 14th, 2005, 21:02

Ive tried a few dos games aka tomb raider 1
c&c red alert, system shock 1
and every time I got an I/0 error or it would freeze while loading the freedos...