iDOS - DosBox Emulator for iPad and iPhone
Pure DOS sung in songs , and with it an entire era, has irrevocably sunk into oblivion . For all its many shortcomings, DOS had one great advantage - a whole army of users, and, of course, a lot of all kinds of toys, applications, utilities.
Sometimes I really want to return to the past and remember how it was. And for this, it is not at all necessary to torture your computer - you can use an emulator or virtual machine. But what if you want to play the good old Gobliins or Wolfenstein on the go?
Various DOS emulators exist for many mobile platforms. Offhand, I can recall my attempts to run the PocketDOS brake on various WinMobile devices, which without dancing with a tambourine supported only the 80186th processor, and Bochs, which I never felt. In any case, until now, mobile devices lacked potentially two things to fully work with DOS: a large screen (for normal operation with a QWERTY keyboard) and processor power for emulating the x86 architecture.
And then I suddenly got an iPad with a high-quality 10 "screen and a pretty-fast processor. And also, the rules for placing applications on the AppStore became softer, which allowed a large number of good things to get there. Among them was the iDos emulator (clickable):
In fact, this is a regular DosBox with a beautiful and user-friendly interface. Even the keyboard is beautiful and supports multi-touch. At the moment, I launched without any problems:
- Volkov Commander and keyrus crack
- Windows 3.1
- A few old toys, including my favorite Gobliins, as well as Warcraft II O_o
Yes, it works great! I think, if you make some optimization, you can achieve good performance, but in general it does not slow down anyway. As far as I can judge from the sensations, the most bottleneck is the work of applications that actively use graphics.
Files are downloaded from iTunes, DosBox has a built-in unzip utility, which greatly simplifies file downloads: you can compress all the files you need, download the archive to the device, and unpack it there.
Now about the sad: the question naturally arises, how could such an application be missed into the store? After all, it quite calmly gives you the opportunity to access the file system of the device (nothing will be done with it, but the fact itself takes place). Anyway, Steve had to bum like this .
Obviously, the moderators did not check the application seriously enough, which allowed him to stay on the AppStore for almost the whole day. At the moment, unfortunately, the only possible way to plunge into the past is jailbreak (you can easily ask the ipa file from Google or Installous).
If you have questions, I will be happy to answer in the comments.
Sometimes I really want to return to the past and remember how it was. And for this, it is not at all necessary to torture your computer - you can use an emulator or virtual machine. But what if you want to play the good old Gobliins or Wolfenstein on the go?
Various DOS emulators exist for many mobile platforms. Offhand, I can recall my attempts to run the PocketDOS brake on various WinMobile devices, which without dancing with a tambourine supported only the 80186th processor, and Bochs, which I never felt. In any case, until now, mobile devices lacked potentially two things to fully work with DOS: a large screen (for normal operation with a QWERTY keyboard) and processor power for emulating the x86 architecture.
And then I suddenly got an iPad with a high-quality 10 "screen and a pretty-fast processor. And also, the rules for placing applications on the AppStore became softer, which allowed a large number of good things to get there. Among them was the iDos emulator (clickable):
In fact, this is a regular DosBox with a beautiful and user-friendly interface. Even the keyboard is beautiful and supports multi-touch. At the moment, I launched without any problems:
- Volkov Commander and keyrus crack
- Windows 3.1
- A few old toys, including my favorite Gobliins, as well as Warcraft II O_o
Yes, it works great! I think, if you make some optimization, you can achieve good performance, but in general it does not slow down anyway. As far as I can judge from the sensations, the most bottleneck is the work of applications that actively use graphics.
Files are downloaded from iTunes, DosBox has a built-in unzip utility, which greatly simplifies file downloads: you can compress all the files you need, download the archive to the device, and unpack it there.
Now about the sad: the question naturally arises, how could such an application be missed into the store? After all, it quite calmly gives you the opportunity to access the file system of the device (nothing will be done with it, but the fact itself takes place). Anyway, Steve had to bum like this .
Obviously, the moderators did not check the application seriously enough, which allowed him to stay on the AppStore for almost the whole day. At the moment, unfortunately, the only possible way to plunge into the past is jailbreak (you can easily ask the ipa file from Google or Installous).
If you have questions, I will be happy to answer in the comments.