Comments on: Emulating PC on Android

By: andre

andre — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:20:58 +0000

I’m really looking forward to JIT support in Android for a better performance. I’ve managed to boot up FreeDOS to show the command line but it took nearly 10 minutes both in emulator (1.5-2.1) and on a real device (Nexus One, Android 2.1). Either I have to fully switch to C++ code using the Android NDK or we have to wait for JIT.

By: twallcx

twallcx — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:04:46 +0000

hmm, i wonder whether this problem was fixed in a subsequent release of android os, what version are you developing this under?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:41:27 +0000

Not much, true, but enough to emulate a basic linux command line, or possibly get some dos games running.

By: andre

andre — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:22:07 +0000

I haven’t canceled the project yet but it turned out to be much more complicated than originally thought. The issue is the Android system itself which limits applications to use a maximum of 16 MBytes of RAM. For an x86 emulator that’s not pretty much :-/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:37:04 +0000

Haven’t heard any updates, news, or even the files for this project being released to the public, any news on the project? There are a number of people along with myself interested.