Adds DOS compatibility to your Pocket Computer  

Latest Version: v1.12.3
Released: 1 August 2009

NEW:

Improved compatibility
Support for latest devices

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Revision History


v1.12.2 - v1.12.3
  • Adds bluetooth serial port detection (WM6.1+)
  • Improved PS/2 mouse support
  • Improved built-in mouse driver compatibility
  • Improved support for external keyboards
  • Improved keyboard BIOS compatibility
  • Adds onscreen key support for Pocket PC devices in landscape mode
  • Improved landscape orientation support
  • Corrects FPU flag setting when using CPU extensions
  • Adds file flushing semantics to prevent file corruption on devices with delayed I/O
  • Adds support for custom MODEX display modes
  • Adds support for latest devices
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.12.1 - v1.12.2
  • Adds PS/2 mouse emulation
  • Adds mouse support for SmartPhone devices
  • Improved support for SmartPhone devices
  • Corrects CPU bugs in BCD instructions
  • Corrects bug in restore from hibernation that caused hard disks not to be remounted
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.12.2

v1.12.0 - v1.12.1
  • Adds support for Pocket PC Phone Edition devices with square screens
  • Adds support for custom, OEM or vertical market devices
  • Improved support for USB keyboards
  • Improved video BIOS compatibility
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.12.1

v1.11.0 - v1.12.0
  • Uses FreeDOS 1.0 as the default OS
  • Adds loading/saving emulator state (hibernation)
  • Adds loading/saving/resetting emulator settings
  • Adds 160x200 compressed mode for ModeX (320x200x256) display mode
  • Adds landscape (display orientation) GUI for Pocket PC
  • Adds support for landscape SmartPhone platforms
  • Adds user interface for mapping hardware keys to PC/XT keys
  • Adds option to specify a modifier key for left/right mouse button
  • Adds option to enable/disable HMA (High Memory Area) with SETCPU command
  • Adds translation of redirector paths for PocketDOS utilities that read to/write from host file system files
  • Adds detection of previous application failure on startup and option to start in 'safe' mode
  • Improved handling of low memory conditions
  • Improved GUI handling of direct screen access (DSA)
  • Improved support for CPU plug-ins
  • Improved layout of Pocket PC onscreen keyboard
  • Improved video BIOS compatibility
  • Improved mouse driver compatibility
  • Improved keyboard BIOS compatibility
  • Improved compatibility of XMS driver
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.12.0

v1.10.2 - v1.11.0
  • Adds Extended Memory (XMS) v2.0 support
  • Adds BIOS extended memory support
  • Adds support for real-mode 80286 software
  • Adds command-line tool SETCPU for switching between 80186 & 80286 CPU modes
  • Adds EGA BIOS detection switch to command-line tool SETSCRN
  • Adds options for tweaking display performance
  • Improved Windows Mobile 2005 support
  • Improved performance
  • Improved Mouse driver
  • Improved Windows 3.x Mouse driver
  • Improved Expanded Memory (EMS 4.0) driver
  • Improved VGA BIOS compatibility
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.11.0

  • Adds support for generic (non-standard) devices with Windows CE 2.11+
  • Adds support for non-Pocket PC devices with Windows CE.NET 4.2+
  • Corrects BIOS clock bug

Download PocketDOS v1.10.2

v1.10.0 - v1.10.1
  • Adds Windows SmartPhone support
  • Adds evaluation versions of ROM-DOS SUV, DR-DOS and FreeDOS
  • Improved performance
  • Adds command-line tool SETLPT for setting printer redirections
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.10.1

v1.09.1 - v1.10.0
  • Adds SuperVGA VESA BIOS extensions (VBE) v1.2 display mode support
  • Adds LIM expanded memory (EMS) v4.0 support
  • Adds options to improve keyboard compatibility with barcode scanners and other non-standard input devices
  • Adds options to improve keyboard compatibility with non-US language keyboards
  • Bug fixes and compatibility improvements when using CPU plug-ins
  • Improves reliability of printer and serial communications
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.10.0

v1.09.0 - v1.09.1
  • Adds Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition support
  • Adds support for 480x640 Pocket PC displays
  • Adds improved support for loading 3rd party CPU and FPU plug-in modules
  • Improved performance
  • Improved reliability of serial communications
  • Improved reliability of printer communications
  • Minor bug fixes and user interface enhancements

Download PocketDOS v1.09.1

v1.08.0 - v1.09.0
  • Adds EGA/VGA display mode support
  • Adds low-level EGA/VGA chipset emulation for non-standard display modes
  • Adds ability to perform most configuration changes without restarting PocketDOS
  • Adds support for loading 3rd party CPU and FPU plug-in modules
  • Improved display performance
  • Improved reliability of printer communications
  • Increased size of hard disk images that can be created/supported by PocketDOS
  • Improved keyboard support
  • Corrects keyboard BIOS compatibility issues with some applications
  • Many bug fixes and compatibility improvements

Download PocketDOS v1.09.0

v1.07.4 - v1.08.0

  • Adds Windows Mobile/Pocket PC 2003 support
  • Adds new user interface for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile devices
  • Adds built-in console driver for running the Windows CE Command Prompt and Windows CE console applications under PocketDOS
  • Adds support for Transcriber, Calligrapher and external keyboards
  • Enables Direct Screen Access (GameX/GAPI) by default for improved display performance
  • Corrects communication port handshaking issues with some applications that resulted in the application not being able to transmit data
  • Corrects keyboard BIOS compatibility issues with some applications
  • Corrects bug in mouse driver that resulted in the mouse driver being disabled after exiting some applications
  • Corrects BIOS timer bug that resulted in some applications displaying the incorrect date if date is changed on device while PocketDOS is running
  • Corrects CPU bug that resulted in some debugger applications not running correctly under PocketDOS

Download PocketDOS v1.08.0

v1.07.2 - v1.07.4

  • Fixed installer warnings/errors when installing PocketDOS on Windows CE.NET devices
  • Fixed demo version lockup which occurred on some Pocket PC 2002 devices
  • Fixed lockup which occurred on some devices when suspending and then resuming PocketDOS
  • Added Unicode path support for redirected drive letters (from GUI only)
  • Added 'safe' mode startup option
  • Added 'System Information' item to 'Help' menu
  • Added external API for developers to use Windows CE DLL functions from DOS applications

Download PocketDOS v1.07.4

v1.07.1 - v1.07.2

  • Improved mouse driver compatibility
  • Corrects bug that resulted in some text highlighting not be displayed
  • Corrects <Ctrl><Up> and <Ctrl><Down> keyboard BIOS problems
  • Added option to disable unsupported operation errors
  • Added support for 320x200x256 MCGA/VGA Mode 0x13 on devices without a 16 bit display
  • Corrects EMS memory bug introduced in v1.06.0
  • Corrects BIOS timer bug that resulted in some applications displaying the incorrect date if run past midnight
  • Added support for simulating right mouse button on Palm-sized and Pocket PC devices 
  • Fixed demo version lockup problem which occurred with v1.07.0 on some Pocket PC devices 
  • Fixed problem which caused Datalight ROM-DOS not to be displayed as a "boot" option in some cases
  • Added online help
  • Added direct display support for devices with rotated frame buffers (eg. iPaq)
  • Added copy and paste functions
  • Added support for starting a Windows CE application from PocketDOS
  • Added support for remapping hardware keys to Palm-sized and Pocket PC version
  • Added F11 & F12 keys to P/PC onscreen keyboard
  • Added switch to SETCOM to enable/disable emulated UART FIFO buffer
  • Added extra zoom modes to improve display performance on H/PC and H/PC Pro
  • Added x86 CEPC OEM demo version of PocketDOS
  • Enhanced SETKEY utility to display Windows virtual keycodes and PC/XT scancodes
  • Enhanced GUI for use with keyboard only (no pointing device)
  • Improved support for Pocket PC devices with rotated (landscape) display
  • Improved display performance for 16 bit displays
  • Improved support for booting PocketDOS with CEDOS
  • Improved support for Windows CE 1.0
  • Fixed some incompatibilities in MCGA video BIOS
  • Fixed mouse compatibility with some Borland applications
  • Fixed some incorrect onscreen keyboard key mappings in P/PC landscape modes
  • Corrected minor GUI display bugs

  v1.05.2 - v1.06.0

  • Corrects bug in mouse driver that caused incorrect mouse position in some entertainment titles
  • Corrects CPU bug that caused graphic corruption in some entertainment titles
  • Corrects bug that caused text cursor to disappear in some cases
  • Corrects bug that invalidated unlock code on some PocketPC devices when an external display driver is used to run the device in "landscape" mode
  • Corrects bug that caused some temporary unlock codes to be invalid
  • Other minor bug fixes
  • Improves performance of EMS memory
  • Improves support for non-US/UK keyboards
  • Adds mouse configuration options
  • Adds right mouse button support
  • Adds additional keyboard configuration options
  • Adds "PrintScreen" key
  • Adds support for mapping hardware keys to PC/XT scancodes
  • Adds support for loading font definitions from user supplied bitmap
  • Adds support for XScale processors
  • Adds support in SETCOM and COM port wizards for serial devices with incomplete driver registry entries
  • Adds text cursor support for applications running in HP100LX/HP200LX display modes
  • Adds support for 320x200x256 MCGA/VGA Mode 0x13 used by many entertainment titles (requires 16 bit display)
  • Adds error messages to indicate when an application running under PocketDOS attempts to use features not supported by PocketDOS
  • Adds support for keyboardless H/PC devices with portrait displays (eg. PSC Falcon 4210)
  • Adds a seperate x86 desktop Windows demo version to facilitate the preperation of disk images and software titles for the handheld version
  • Adds a seperate "Lite" version for those users who do not require a bundled DOS
  • Adds a seperate ROMDOS add-on for former XT-CE and "Lite" version users
  • Adds support for loading font definitions from an external font file.
  • Adds option to enable/disable mapping of hardware "application" keys to F1-F10 in PocketDOS.
  • Adds support for very narrow H/PC displays (eg. Panasonic Toughbook), allowing two rows of function keys to be displayed at the bottom of the PocketDOS display.
  • Adds support for loading maths coprocessor emulator drivers under PocketDOS.
  • Improves compatibility with the HP200LX Connectivity Pack and other HP200LX applications.
  • Fixes compatibility issues with Jornada 720.
  • Fixes bug causing file date/times to sometimes be set incorrectly on redirected drive letters.
  • Fixes compatibility issues with Lotus 1-2-3.
  • Fixes bug which prevented printer redirections from being saved.
  • Adds a Windows CE file system driver to allow direct access to hard disk devices from DOS (eg. CompactFlash)
  • Adds utilities to registered version to format and scan hard disk devices (eg. CompactFlash) for errors
  • Adds support for Pocket PC devices that use a "landscape" mode display driver
  • Adds facility to zoom display to a particular text size (eg. 20x8) for industrial applications designed to run on non- standard DOS handhelds
  • Adds PC speaker emulation
  • Improved CPU performance (especially on ARM processors)
  • Fixed bugs in CPU emulation which caused incompatibilities with PKUNZIP
  • Superscedes XT-CE, which is now included in PocketDOS
  • Adds support for floppy disk images, hard disk images and hard disk devices (Flash disks, Microdrives etc.)
  • Adds support for booting DOS (or other OS's) from disk images and physical disks
  • Adds serial, parallel, infrared and network printer support
  • Adds GUI for all configuration options
  • Adds wizards for configuring disks, ports and printers
  • Adds support for non-US keyboards on Palm-sized and Pocket PCs
  • Adds support for physical keyboards on Palm-sized and Pocket PCs
  • Improved CPU and graphics performance
  • Increased amount of available RAM in DOS
  • Adds high quality font for use on H/PC professional devices with large displays
  • Fixed bugs in CPU emulation which caused incompatibilities with Clipper applications and Quicken
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