Re: XY on a smartphone?

[Jeff Seager peregrine@xxxxxxxx]

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

-----Original Message-----

From: Raphael
To: xywrite
Sent: Tue, Jul 23, 2013 10:30 pm
Subject: Re: XY on a smartphone?

Theoretically it will be possible Ubuntu on a smartphone before
the end of next year.

Moreover, if things go according to Canonical's roadmap, that
Ubuntu smartphone will permit connecting the device to a keyboard
and monitor and running as though it were a desktop.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/ubuntu-edge-indiegogo-campaign-for-ubuntu-touch-super-phone

A few of us Ubuntu dosemuers (dosemirs?) are apprehensive about
whether this change bodes ill for dosemu support, since it depends
on a new display driver called Mir which supposedly will emulate
the (ancient but reliable) X Windows, to whose innards dosemu is
very closely linked. On the one hand, Canonical has been
emphasizing that Mir will be 100% compatible -- however, they have
shown themselves willing to risk the ire of the Linux old guard,
and since the maintainers of dosemu are quite senior, it's
possible they wouldn't care much what direction Ubuntu goes in.
Though I'm wagering dosemu will work eventually, though probably
not in the first Mir-implemented release, some fork will work (on
the desktop at least).

   -Rafe T.

   On 07/22/2013 12:16 AM, Jon P wrote:

> Well, not yet.
>
> But I was curious to see if anyone has put DOS on an Android phone--and it appears someone has.
>
> Some Oxford University physicists have concocted JPC: a Java version of DOS that does indeed put
> a (nearly microscopic) DOS prompt A> on my smartphone, which now thinks it's an Intel Pentium II.
> Now I need to figure out how to get XY4 and XYWWWEB into a place where JPC can find it.
>
> http://jpc.sourceforge.net/home_home.html
>
> It was originally a virtual DOS machine for computers--at some point I'll try it with XY on WIndows
> 7.
>
> In the meantime, if anyone else wants to play with this, on phone or computer, I'd be curious about
> how useful it is.
>
> Jon Pareles