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
v1.10.1 - v1.10.2
- 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
v1.07.0 - v1.07.1
- 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
v1.06.0 - v1.07.0
- 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
v1.05.0 - v1.05.2
- 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.
v1.04 - v1.05.0
- 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
v1.03 - v1.04
- 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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