Homebrew Windows 95 on N3DS

[Dracari]

let me say this to put it mildly, if you cant be arsed to try or cant make your own image then making any Windows 3.11 or 95 game run in dosbox on the 3DS will be even more difficult when you run into driver issues.
not to be rude but thats the truth.

if you want a example of perforamnce try running RetroCityRampage 486 in it. if it runs well enough you can tolerate , Congrads you can run Some of the early windows 95 games anything 3d Accelerated will be a flat out NO. and thats given you use SciTech DisplayDoctor driver.

 

[AlexanderLS]

This is just pointless.
Does anybody even carry their 3ds more often than their smartphone?
ARM CPUs simply are not powerful enough to run x86 code without serious lag.

You'd get better speed on a good smartphone(which would still suck.)

The dosbox emulator is their to play old school dos games.
There were some cool old games like the first Warcraft/Chip's Challenge/Lemmings/etc.

 

[Pandaxclone2]

This is just pointless.
Does anybody even carry their 3ds more often than their smartphone?
ARM CPUs simply are not powerful enough to run x86 code without serious lag.

You'd get better speed on a good smartphone(which would still suck.)

Does it count if you don't own a phone? The homebrew itself isn't pointless per se, it tests the boundaries of the system.

 

[AlexanderLS]

Does it count if you don't own a phone? The homebrew itself isn't pointless per se, it tests the boundaries of the system.

Not really, the emulation overhead will distort your results.
Emulation generally has a pretty harsh overhead.
Remember the system is translating code for a different architecture.

 

[do0ob]

You must be using an O3DS, not a N3DS. Since the source is available, I'm working on seeing what's causing it and what changes were made to make it run. I'm thinking it has to do with the clock thing he mentioned, something there is breaking compatibility. I'm trying to find this change.

hello, any progress in debugging? is there any chance to run dosbox @ old3ds xl? (i am also having red screen issue). regards...

 

[Onepunchbruh]

Release Date?

 

[Cameron Lee]

tutorial?

 

[urherenow]

I have to scratch that out because the previous owner of my current computer put a password on the bios that I do not know and cannot enable the virtualbox features sadly

Are you being serious right now? All you have to do is pull the CMOS battery ffs. Password gone. Don't forget to set the date and time again.

EDIT: am I being serious right now? I just replied to a year old post. I need to sleep...

 

[Shadd]

Are you being serious right now? All you have to do is pull the CMOS battery ffs. Password gone. Don't forget to set the date and time again.

EDIT: am I being serious right now? I just replied to a year old post. I need to sleep...

As I said, there is no CMOS battery. I wasn't able to unscrew the screws to replace the motherboard and now just have one lying around, but either there is no CMOS battery, the CMOS password is saved into flash or just the CMOS battery is part of the MOBO. There's no way I can fix it right now unless I can unscrew the screws at the bottom (not all of them are stuck, but a bunch of them are) I won't be able to do anything about it. The only small, but not full fix right now is creating some VRAM from my hard drive which did improve performance on a lot of things by a lot, but still wouldn't change the fact that my computer can't support x64 bit right now due to huge limitations.

 

[elhobbs]

hello, any progress in debugging? is there any chance to run dosbox @ old3ds xl? (i am also having red screen issue). regards...

Horrible performance on n3ds - running on o3ds is not going to be magically better.

 

[TimX24968B]

Just curious, does it even run on o3ds? I just want some images to show people, i know the performance is shit already. i wanna know what the framerate is like

 

[elhobbs]

Just curious, does it even run on o3ds? I just want some images to show people, i know the performance is shit already. i wanna know what the framerate is like

As far as I know it does not run on o3ds.

 

[TimX24968B]

As far as I know it does not run on o3ds.

at all? what happens when you try to run it?

 

[urherenow]

As I said, there is no CMOS battery. I wasn't able to unscrew the screws to replace the motherboard and now just have one lying around, but either there is no CMOS battery, the CMOS password is saved into flash or just the CMOS battery is part of the MOBO. There's no way I can fix it right now unless I can unscrew the screws at the bottom (not all of them are stuck, but a bunch of them are) I won't be able to do anything about it. The only small, but not full fix right now is creating some VRAM from my hard drive which did improve performance on a lot of things by a lot, but still wouldn't change the fact that my computer can't support x64 bit right now due to huge limitations.

There is absolutely no way this is true. Even a Nintendo Wii has a CMOS battery. There is no other way to keep track of the date and time (and date and time will not be "saved into flash". It's in NVRAM, kept alive by the battery when you remove all other power (unplug it). There should also be 2 pins you can jumper either with an actual jumper or a screwdriver to reset CMOS. Whatever motherboard you have: RTFM

 

[Dracari]

at all? what happens when you try to run it?

people have stated it just red screens and hangs.

 

[TimX24968B]

people have stated it just red screens and hangs.

any reason why it would do this on o3ds and not n3ds?

 

[Dracari]

any reason why it would do this on o3ds and not n3ds?

someone was looking into it but they quit halfway thru. i can only thing its an Out of memory issue or its been compiled mostly to utilize the N3DS CPU's Speed and L2 cache along w/ the additional Ram. *forgot to add, i could be wrong about the L2 Cache but, my 2 big guesses are CPU Speed&Ram ceiling.

 

[Shadd]

There is absolutely no way this is true. Even a Nintendo Wii has a CMOS battery. There is no other way to keep track of the date and time (and date and time will not be "saved into flash". It's in NVRAM, kept alive by the battery when you remove all other power (unplug it). There should also be 2 pins you can jumper either with an actual jumper or a screwdriver to reset CMOS. Whatever motherboard you have: RTFM

Many people have reported all over the internet that it has no CMOS battery (I also think one person said it was part of the MOBO). I don't know where to short the wires to remove the password, but if I figure it out then buying that $50 motherboard was a waste of my money. I have tried replacing the motherboard today again and almost got all the screws out. Sadly there was one stripped screw which screwed me over (no pun intended) and I failed to replace the motherboard because the stripped screw prevented me from accessing the entire board and basically squished my fingers between the motherboard and the upper case. I will soon remove that stripped screw. Soon...

 

[AdventureSnivy]

Can someone give me the windows 95 img file please or link me to it?

 

[Kourin]

Can someone give me the windows 95 img file please or link me to it?

No, it's copyrighted content.