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Running Windows 95 on a Pocket PC
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11 ай бұрынHave you ever wanted to run Windows 95 in the palm of your hand? Well now you can, not only that but it's super simple!
Emulation on a Pocket PC is nothing new but now you can emulate an x86 and run the desktop operating system of your choice... but lets start easy with Windows 95 and it's supremely low system requirements!
Huge thanks goes to @uploadgeek (who contacted me after seeing the video) who created the image and originally uploaded everything to reddit before taking it down again.
Music
Know Myself - Patrick Patrikios
Installation on a Jornada 720 on #HPCfactor
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Link for the software and image file:-
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@kurtiunlisted8589 10 ай бұрын
You’re certainly not just talking to yourself here ❤ I enjoy your content a lot and I think there’s actually no comparison to your channel here on KZfaq. The dawn of Handheld computing was super fascinating to me at the time, and I love to see it covered so entertainingly here! I‘m glad you’re putting in all this time and effort to make these wonderful Videos for us 🤗
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words. I enjoy making these videos and I'm happy that people enjoy them 😃
@dosgos 10 ай бұрын
Subsequently, Fujitsu released a dual-boot phone that ran Symbian or Windows 7. It was called the LOOX F07C but I'm not sure it was sold outside of Japan. People have run Linux and Win 10 on it, although I don't know if anyone got these to run "well".
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Yes they did, only in Japan I think. The closest we came was the HTC shift which ran Windows Mobile and (I think) Vista - it had an 800Mhz pentium M I think so wouldn't have been fast
@Unan1mouz 10 ай бұрын
The fact that you can even do this is just amazing.
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
It is amazing and while its slow, it was a lot of fun to have a play with such an iconic OS in the palm of my hand!
@Unan1mouz 10 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing But I'd just stick Windows CE for that "Windows 95/98" vibe thank you very much... 😝 lol
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Ha ha yeah, but it was fun to play with win'95
@fradd182 10 ай бұрын
I think you meant WM 2003SE, not 2002SE (i dont think it even exists). Also, im sure that Acer N300 has 400Mhz Samsung CPU, not 300. I have noticed that, for unknown reasons, Samsung ARM CPU's are much snappier than higher clocked Intel counterparts in all graphics-related operations, probably the reason for performance difference. Lastly, this is nice as a demo but not really useful. Maybe HTC HD2 would be up to the task?
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
You are correct its WM 2003SE!!! Silly me! The N300 is defo 300Mhz or at least the one I have is. Yes there was a comment saying that the boot time was ~30sec on the HTC HD2 and 3 sec to launch solitaire so similar speed to my Libretto CT50. I do wonder how useable it would be with a capacitive screen though!
@HandheldComputing 8 ай бұрын
So it turns out that there was an Acer N310 which does have the 400Mhz CPU which explains the confusion - also I need to try and get one 😉
@dogdive 10 ай бұрын
I tried shutting down to ms-dos and then set it to boot directly into dos. That worked. It’s not as slow. I have a HTC Advantage. I tried to get my Bluetooth keyboard to connect but it didn’t want to pair and the tiny keyboard is slow to use.
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
I bet it was reasonably snappy running DOS, will have a play at the weekend. Dosbox is probably a better option for DOS though. Weird that you couldn't connect the BT keyboard I wonder if the CPU was just maxed out so couldn't cope with the BT connection? Yeah that tiny keyboard isn't great...
@dogdive 10 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing The problem was that Windows Mobile 6 kept wanting a PIN code for the keyboard. I tried no passcode, 0000 and 1111. No passcode started to work, asked me the device type and then re-asked for a PIN code and would’nt accept a blank pin.
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
That's weird, does the BT keyboard work normally? I would try 1234 as a pin code too as that's a common default
@yeety1208 10 ай бұрын
6:01 nice (unintended?) pun there :)
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Advantage 🤣😂 Completely unintended, well spotted!
@UKSCIENCEORG 10 ай бұрын
Imagine how quick MS-DOS and windows 3.1 would be?
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Good point, should be easy enough to create a Win3.1 img file, faster still would be Win3.0 running on pocket DOS (no emulation needed), there are even mouse drivers for the touch screen available 😃
@Pasi123 10 ай бұрын
It runs pretty fast on a HTC HD2. Less than 50 seconds to boot and Solitaire takes a bit less than 3 seconds to load
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Thats got to be close to running on OG hardware. How do you find the capacitive screen for using Win 95 on such a small device? Are you using a stylus or managing with your finger?
@10826wjjj 10 ай бұрын
🎉❤
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Thanks 😃
@exklimexklim 10 ай бұрын
I wanted to ask if you’d like to review my Viliv n5 Windows XP UMPC and possibly install Vista or higher. PM!
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Yes I would love too, I am pretty sure that Viliv released a full set of drivers for 32bt Windows 7 and its specs would mean it would run well on there. Will drop you a message on FB
@exklimexklim 10 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing Password here
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
2580@@exklimexklim
@dosgos 10 ай бұрын
Interesting emulation. I can imagine it took forever to make this video.
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
It did take a while! I think it was worth it though and it was a lot of fun to do
@dosgos 10 ай бұрын
@@HandheldComputing Not only an interesting watch but also a good technical reference for the future.
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@Kuba38OwO 18 күн бұрын
does your htc advantage also seem to be slower in general, like playing games, etc. than other pdas? i have one and it seems really slow, i have no idea how to make it faster
@HandheldComputing 16 күн бұрын
Sadly yes, its running WM6.1 but compared to the Loox its a bit slow swapping apps and video playback isn't as good. On the plus side having native word and excel is a big bonus!
@Kuba38OwO 15 күн бұрын
@@HandheldComputing damn, i bought it, thinking it will be a huge upgrade to my ipaq h1940, and the ipaq is literally faster, it has a 300mhz cpu
@HandheldComputing 15 күн бұрын
@@Kuba38OwO WM2003/SE is just a lot more efficient, there's loads of bloat in WM5/6. If you are OK with flashing new ROMs you could look on XDA developers as there was a very active community producing custom ROMs for the Advantage and maybe one of those will be faster
@Kuba38OwO 15 күн бұрын
@@HandheldComputing already flashed a michYprima wm6.1 clean edition, no improvements
@HandheldComputing 13 күн бұрын
@@Kuba38OwO There must be a "lite" version of WM6 out there
@TheWolf12976 4 ай бұрын
Can it be possible to run win pe 1.0 on the poket pc
@HandheldComputing 4 ай бұрын
If you mean Windows 1.0 yes you can - you can use this method or since up to Windows 3.0 it will run in a pure DOS environment I would suggest you use PocketDOS or similar instead
@DabombGaming 10 ай бұрын
can i have one of your older Pocket PCs free? i know that's a strange question, but Texas USA, can it be done?
@HandheldComputing 10 ай бұрын
Sorry, if you were in the UK I would consider it but the shipping for US is crazy. It'd be cheaper to pick one up off ebay locally