So, kinda late on posting this again, but I have to say something. The latest buzz on the internets is that Windows 3.1 was found running on S60 devices by some polish Marcin dude. Complete with news post, mention on Engadget, OSNews, the works. Once you find the original polish page you see files with by Marcin-etc.rar on the title. Every picture of it running had a watermark. This marcin guy edited the dosbox conf to add his name, and even edited the windows marquee screensaver to read his name!

Now that is a little bit too much, considering he didn’t code anything. Taking (and abusing) credit based on the works of others. Just so I could confirm that, I downloaded a windows 3.1 install disk image on the shady side of the internets, used it with the vanilla dosbox_s60.sis and it worked just as fine!

So no real news on this post, just a cautionary tale, don’t believe file names, and give proper credit to the person who really did the coding and porting.

Here’s the original thread, just for your convenience: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?p=150669

First really really beta version of dosbox for S60 released today on the VOGONS forum! This is shaping up to be real good, so go check the thread. It runs on fifth edition, but no keys means I can’t do nothing with it. Though I feel it’s gonna be awesome on the N97. Update 2: Just found out there’s no virtual keyboard api. wtf Nokia? This cuts out touchscreen only phones unless the developer codes a whole new keyboard, which he shouldn’t.

I still haven’t tested it on my N95, but will do and update the thread with results as soon as I can. Update: Nope, doesn’t run on the N95-1, not enough ram! I can hardly wait to play Heartlight on my phone, woo.

Update 3: So looks like this is going to be updated pretty fast, no need to post links as they’ll soon be old versions. Just check thread’s second page, it has the latest version as of the date of this update. See if you can spot my 5800 running heartlight :P

Update 4: As this post is still pretty high on the search for dosbox s60 on google, I’ll link the real, official page here: http://s60dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Go there, now.