Hi, Since you mentioned QEMU on ARM in your more recent email, I figured I'd come back to this to give some minor comments.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Georg Potthast <mail...@georgpotthast.de> wrote: > > I tried MetaDOS on my Samsung Android Tablet using Qemu based Limbo PC. > Seems to work fine except for network support. [Sorry, network support > does work, you just have to select the right network card emulation. ;-)] > > An external USB keyboard is strongly recommended together with the Hackers > Keyboard driver for Android. > > Georg > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/limbopcemulator/?source=navbar My Android tablet is "too old" (3.2 circa 2011), so I was very skeptical if this would work for me. I did finally force myself to try anyways. It does boot up and run FreeDOS correctly, but for whatever reason, no keyboard input is accepted, no matter which (virtual) keyboard I use. (Yes, I even tested the Hacker's Keyboard.) Maybe it's a bug or incompatibility. Maybe you really need an actual hardware keyboard. Dunno. It's still cool that somebody ported it to Android/ARM, but I obviously can't use it very effectively. (I never bothered to learn how to install or use the NDK, so I'm not much help on fixing and recompiling Limbo myself.) BTW, not that I have (or want) one just yet, but there are quite a few Intel (x86)-based Android tablets these days. I honestly wonder if DOSEMU would work there. (Probably depends on if Bionic libc or whatever supports the right stuff.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
