[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aSiD1712:
Windows 95 works WITH SOUND on Android!!!

I installed my own old Win95 CD on qemu HD2.

Review and some useable tips, I realy tested so much!

I was so suprised if I heared Windows Start Sound firtst Time at reboot after setup! It is a COMPLETE Win95 german setup updated to plus pack, all MS-Updates, directx8.0, iE5.5, MS Media Player, Flash player, openGL, Winzip, Winrar, smoothed and transparent Fonts, realy useable for so much software and working with my mini bluetooth keyboard. If I could only use my bluetooth mouse on HD2 like on older phones with MS BT stack would be so great... Will try additional software later like old Photoshop, 3D-Studio Max, Quake1-3, Unreal Turnament, Cinema4D, Rhinoceros, try what you want but not everything will run for some reasons. Desktop can run 256 colors, 16bit and 24bit color depth 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 but higher res only in lower color depth. If someone finds a monitor driver or tweak to set res to 800x480 would be perfect ;-) Performance is realy useable so may be there could be a way to install a higher windows version in a VIRTUAL MACHINE UNDER WINDOWS 95. No Joke I will try to get VirtualBox, VMWare, Dosbox, Bochs, Qemu or VirtualMachine running on Windows95 and may be there could run winXP, Win2000, Ubuntu, MacOS or something else on HD2 soon. With Sound. Also try Nintendo64 Emulator, Open Office or all the great games from dos to directx8.0 with sound. report please!

Howto pass setup:

-You need:

--qemu android

--wimo quemu

--win95 cd image with serial

--bootable win98 cd image with serial

--bochs on your desktop pc to create hdd image

--qemu on your desktop pc to install win98 on hdd image

-I configured wimo emul directory to sdl so i can start same image files with android and wimo withou moving or renaming hdd image files. Use 7z on wimo or comparing on android to insert or delete files in hdd images on phone. So you can download and insert stuff for your virtual PC without a Desktop only on phone.

- Install win98 on a uncompressed image on qemu windows desktop. I used 900 mb and copied win95 files on image but u can also mount additional cd image and create a smaller c image.

- rename Image to c.img and copy to your sdl dir on sd card.

- Boot android and start qemu. Dont try to boot windows98, it should not work and if it works tell me how. Just boot win98's dos promt and run win95 setup.exe. You can run setup from hdd or cdrom.

- Install Windows95 to C: hdd in any directory like Win95 but dont use default "Windows" because win98 is placed there. But wait, remember if you install win98 on any other directory first you should be able to install win95 to default windows directory. Setup should past on Android qemu without any problems. After Setup you should hear Windows start sound out of the box.

- Now beware and copy the image. Copy everytime before you update something becouse any update canmake it unuseable crashing. But most will work, some times it freeses after update on reeboot but works if you boot 2. or 3. time again.

- Now you can also use the image on wimo qemu with better input. Sound is not working on wimo with my setup, dont know why since virtual hardware should be same but soundcard has an error on wimo qemu ;-(

Comparing Android and Wimo Port:

Qemu Android:

is required to pass setup on phone an supports sound. Mouse and Keyboard are poor. After some updates it freeses or crashes and I could not get it running again and had to revert to an earlyer image. Also you can try to boot image on wimo and uninstal latest changes to make it running on Android again. I am tanking about system changes like drivers, updates, directx... Installing regular software should not makeimage unuseable.

Qemu Wimo:

Is more stable and runs more software and full updated Win95. Also it has so much better input! After some practice it is nearly simulating old Win95 sucking ball-mouse-feeling. Disable the mouse finger click and move the keyboard to the right lower corner so u have the mouse buttons in the right lower corner and a free screen. Set the pointer speed to zero so you can move mouse at same speed as your finger.

Also Wimo port offers diffrent scale sizes 25%-200%, panning and nice multi touch zoom! Realy useable excluding sound.

Will test network, diffrent drivers and bios soon. There is a cirrus 1.4 driver with 3d hardware accelleration for the virtual graphic card but image was no more useable after setup. But default windows driver realy renders some frames and at the end there is no hardware acceleration since everything is calculated on great Qualcom.

Some years ago we spend thousands for desktop computer not much more useable. Typing old serial gives you same feeling again then setting up your first own pc if you were young!

Someone has an old photoshop 3 or 4 setup to "sell" please pm!