multimedia ds?

blabmouth02 · Post by **blabmouth02** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:50 pm

hey does anybody think its possible to putting some sort of windows on the ds? i know u can put linux on it, but i don't want linux. i would preferably like windows, maybe ce version. could settle for palm version. any thoughts?

Nicholai · Post by **Nicholai** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:52 pm

Cut a hole all the way through, and use it for a window.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:03 pm

1. somehow copy Windows 95 to a flash cart
2. Wait until they port DOSbox to DSLinux, or compile it yourself.
3. Boot DSLinux.
4. Wait an eternity as DOSbox boots
5. start Windows Setup
6. wait another eternity as Windows installs
7. If it worked, then reboot DOSbox. wait yet another eternity. If it didn't work, smash everything out of frustration with your now arthritic , useless hands
8. wait forever as Windows loads
9. the Sun supernovas as Windows goes from the splash screen to the blank desktop with a cursor on it

There's no way to install Windows on the DS without some sort of emulation, because the Windows source is closed-source and it is not designed for the DS's internal parts. And DOSbox running Windows is butt-slow, even on a PSP, judging from what I have read.

So basically it's Linux or nothing. I don't think they have ported FluxBox to the DS, and certainly not any of the "windows-y" desktops like KDE or Gnome, either.

joelanders · Post by **joelanders** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:07 pm

I don't remember ever seeing someone get Windows on a DS...
Here's a link to the guy who got Windows and Linux to run on a PSP using the Bochs x86 emulator, maybe you could do something like that although I'm sure many have already tried it...

Why exactly do you want Windows on it instead of something else?

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:12 pm

There are planety of PDA style homebrew programs out there, you know, a MP3 player, image viewer, e-book reader and other crap. Just have to take a look around.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:37 pm

isnt there a program called winds? (WinDs lol)

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:39 pm

port quemu, mouxh better

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:41 pm

http://www.ndshb.com/cgi-bin/cfiles/cfi ... 0,0,0,3,71

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:26 pm

some people are trying to put palm os on the ds

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:41 pm

Windows CE.net might be portable using the Platform Builder, pending PB has support for that processor. Then, you'll have to figure out all the drivers to use, and I'm not sure if Windows CE has multi-monitor support.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:39 pm

couldnt you theoretically write a display driver that uses both the screens as one screen

blabmouth02 · Post by **blabmouth02** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:45 pm

well does anybody want to help me with it? maybe something like that time joe and ben were going to build that really small computer (don't know if they ever finished it, or started it)

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:16 pm

timmeh87 wrote:couldnt you theoretically write a display driver that uses both the screens as one screen

Of course. It'd be a pain, though.

blabmouth02 · Post by **blabmouth02** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:36 pm

ya well i wouldn't know where to begin on the whole writing driver crap. i would like it to be like: somehow get windows on the ds without having to write n e thing. gunna haveta use those flash cards unfortunatley, but when they crack the nds wi-fi and get the internet on it i could just easily upload it to the ds which would be really cool.

edit:

oo and the reason i want windows is because i like windows. i've never tried linux and wouldn't want to start it off and a handheld. if i have to i will, but would even rather go to palm os before linux. i know wut ur thinking but just no ok

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:48 pm

didnt they hack wifi like 8 months ago?

http://www.themodgods.com/2005/04/wifim ... tarted.htm

anyways, you cant just get windows onto the ds with no programming. thats insane. someone would have already done it if it was that easy.