Re: XY on a smartphone

[Jeff Seager peregrine@xxxxxxxx]

I don't recall exactly, Jon, though I believe I created a distinct XY directory in the root directory of the tablet (not on the SD card, which I thought might introduce added complications). The DOSbox documentation made it clear where it would look for executables, and I believe that also can be changed in a DOSbox configuration file.



I tinkered with it for a day or two and didn't have the time or energy to do much more. But DOSbox ran fine, and XY did load with relatively few errors, considering I hadn't done much to configure it other than commenting out a few lines here and there.



I'd be very interested in having a working version on this tablet, if you or anyone else has time to sort it out. I just don't have the time now to do so myself.



Jeff
















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Jeff--

Where do you copy XY onto the tablet for DOSbox to find it and run it?

Jon Pareles


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Subject: Re: XY on a smartphone?
From: Jeff Seager mailto:peregrine@xxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:46:25 -0400 (EDT)

DOSbox is available for Android in the Google Play Store, along with a handful
of other dos emulators. I installed it and tried in a feeble way a few months
ago to get XyWrite running on my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, fwiw).
I suspect one of these emulators could be made to work with some effort by one
of you who's a better problem solver than I, though I wouldn't even try it if my
tablet didn't also support connecting a keyboard.

Jeff Seager