DOSBox for iPad/iPhone

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~NEW~ DosPad beta 1.93 is available for testing on iPhone 3GS or above now!

Source Code (still in development)

Install requirements: Jailbreak iPad, with Cydia installed.

Installation: a) Start cydia; b) goto manage->Sources; c) Add the following source.

http://www.litchie.net/cydia

DosPad Beta is recommended.

Some facts that your may want to know:

• Based on DOSBOX 0.74; Kudos to DOSBOX team for making this possible!
• COPY command can copy a hyper-linked file. For example,

  c:\> copy www.dosgamesarchive.com/files/mario.zip

• A bullt-in UNZIP command can unzip the files you just downloaded. NOTE: The zip file name should either be all upper case or all lower case.

  c:\> unzip mario.zip

• Automatically mount /var/mobile/Documents as disk C. So if you know how to SSH to your iPad, you probably can transfer a large set of files inside this directory.

Troubleshooting

• If you have error during installation, try to remove the previous version before installing update version.
• If dospad doesn't show up after install, you may need to reboot your device.
• If you can't launch games or game can't be saved, please check the permission of game files, and make sure dospad has write permission to them. You can use iFile from Cydia to apply permission change to a folder recursively. (by DA Dzi)

Todo

• UI Improvement. Give the screen a very nice border on ipad and the keys nicer look.
• Performance. Performance.
• External keyboard.

External Links

I understand new users may have trouble setting up DosPad, especially since I only provide english documentation here. If you have a webpage or discussion thread about how to use DosPad, please let me know so I can add a link here.

• DOSPAD has its forum now! Thanks to Mike Burlingame for setting it up. This is a better place to exchange ideas and have discussions in more organized way.
• More screenshots at dospad@flickr .