Homebrew [Project] Windows 2000/ME and Linux on 3DS

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I am expecting people to say "it wont work" but idc ima try it anyway. Ok lets rename this title.... AGAIN. Its not a project, just a test to see how dosbox/3ds reacts to these things. And also i will probably try ME as i didnt know 2000 was NT... even though the start up screen says based on NT... yeah


2000 error but setup is working!!!

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Suggested by: https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-on-the-new-3ds.407756/page-11#post-6918346

Trying out Windows 2000 or ME and Linux on a 3DS, cos why not

2000/ME will be tested as it is
I will try use Debian/Raspbian
If linux works ill try ubuntu/linux mint

I will report progress updates below:

Windows 2000 setup has been activated... with a slight issue



https://gbatemp.net/threads/running-ms-dos-6-22-on-3ds.452831/
similar project by me
 
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Probably would've been a good idea to have a PoC before making a thread.

Regardless, good luck, you're going to need it.

(I highly doubt it will work at all out of the box)
 

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Probably would've been a good idea to have a PoC before making a thread.

Regardless, good luck, you're going to need it.

(I highly doubt it will work at all out of the box)
i got inspired so i wanted to try it :D

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i should post progess updates in the replys aswell

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ok i somehow got XP setup to run on dosbox but it crashes. i might be able to fix this in the dosbox config but im not sure it'll work. if it doesnt ill get a mod to rename this to windows 2000 instead. that might have less requirements (dosbox is emulating a pentium cpu btw)

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emulated pentium_mmx doesnt work either. time for 2000/ME test. time to find a mod

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PMed an admin to get the name changed, hope its done soon(tm)

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we have liftoff.... i mean windows 2000 setup!

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yeah its not going well, mostly due to my double posts.
 

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In that case,it's GNU/Linux or simply a dist.

Is this new 3ds only (for GNU/Linux)?

But how is it possible to port windows,we do not have the source.
 

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For those who want a native Linux port, there is this thread too https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-linux-for-the-3ds.407187/
Not sure if the project is still active but stuff works and it's native.
this is nice but it doesnt work on the latest firmware. It is A9LH or an unstable MemChunkHax version. Dosbox works on 11.2 and below but linux doesnt support dos (see the bottom of my sig)

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In that case,it's GNU/Linux or simply a dist.

Is this new 3ds only (for GNU/Linux)?

But how is it possible to port windows,we do not have the source.
Yes this is N3DS only (Linux failed but probably and yes for windows. slow on windows o3ds)
shutterbug made a dosbox port that can run bat files and mount images. this lets us run windows os's that support DOS (non nt based). https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-on-the-new-3ds.407756/ not the original post by shutterbug but explains it

I also got MS-DOS running on this. I have succsesfully got Windows 3.1/95/98 running on DosBox (3DS). Nobody has got 2000 working yet.
 
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I don't want to be a dick but..
That's just Windows running on DOSbox, which, with a bit of fiddling, anyone can do really.
Much like booting Win 95 on the PSP back in the days via DOSbox.
 
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"it wont work"

As far as I know, Windows 2000 will not, under any circumstances, run on DOSBox. It runs the NT kernel, and DOSBox uses the DOS kernel. Windows ME, however, uses the DOS kernel, so it may be able to run on the 3DS (slowly). Linux already has a port (as stated by @Hayleia, but it wouldn't run in DOSBox anyway. It's based on the Linux kernel, which will simply not run in DOS.
Now, I have no idea if there's a way to emulate either the NT kernel or the Linux kernel in a DOS environment, so if there is, consider me corrected. Good luck!
 
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This is just you running an image through dosbox. It would be neat if you could make a native Windows 200/ME/Linux thing but anybody can do this. This isn't really a project just trying something. A for effort I guess
 

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You can't run the NT kernel - it expects a proper IDE driver (among other things) while DOSBox (for efficiency) only emulates the disk/DOS interrupts so that programs can run.
Same issue with Linux - it _requires_ protected mode drivers.

Also ffs there's a native linux port for the 3DS, please use google search.
 
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Isn't there already native Linux? (basic, but it's a start)

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-linux-for-the-3ds.407187/
i already said this required A9LH. If not that a crappy memchunkhax version was made.

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You can't run the NT kernel - it expects a proper IDE driver (among other things) while DOSBox (for efficiency) only emulates the disk/DOS interrupts so that programs can run.
Same issue with Linux - it _requires_ protected mode drivers.

Also ffs there's a native linux port for the 3DS, please use google search.
already said about native linux port.
im aware on NT kernel not running. Wasn't aware of 2000 being NT.

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This is just you running an image through dosbox. It would be neat if you could make a native Windows 200/ME/Linux thing but anybody can do this. This isn't really a project just trying something. A for effort I guess
yeah i agree its just trying something. I kinda got bored with it and stopped, i might pick it back up when im not busy with anything

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I don't want to be a dick but..
That's just Windows running on DOSbox, which, with a bit of fiddling, anyone can do really.
Much like booting Win 95 on the PSP back in the days via DOSbox.
true. But i mentioned before, its just for fun :). I had nothing else to do so i did it anyway :)

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Any news?
No not really. Only thing i have done to this is try get Win95 to run a .bat file a made to do the con/con trick to BSOD it (when i had 3.1 I wanted CTRL + ALT + DEL so i could BSOD, i always wanted to see 3DS bsod :D)

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when did this thread get attacked by replys?
 
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i already said this required A9LH. If not that a crappy memchunkhax version was made.

You can also make it into a CIA, if you compile it from source. I made one here a while ago. I don't know if it's up to date with the latest source or not.
I presume running Linux without kernel access would be very slow; otherwise, it would've been done already. Or maybe it uses extra drivers that require kernel access that can be removed from the source to run it in userland. I'm not exactly that good with that sort of thing (it took me hours to even compile the CIA).

By the way, it would be great if you could stop double... triple... quintuple posting. There's an edit function for a reason.

EDIT: Excuse me, I mean nonuple posting. Apparently that's a word.
 
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