GEOS on 9210(i) is it..

[QuantumII]

Hi all!

I just got this crazy idea this other day.. What if we could manage to run 9110's GEOS in 9210 via DOS emulator..

The 9110 uses dos just like windows.. Like Loading dos first, then AUTOEXEC.BAT starts GEOS.. like any normal computer..

If we somehow could manage to get the GEOS system files from the 9110 to the 9210 maybe we could manage to run it there.. of course the phone functions etc in GEOS wouldnt work, but the system (like for running games etc) would maybe work..

If this is possible at all, we have to use a CGA display driver for GEOS (found in the 9110 sdk) and some keyboard driver that would work with a standard PC/XT keyboard (because the 9210 emulates an XT machine trough an emulator)


My suggestions on how to aquire the geos system from the 9110 is those two:

1. Copy everything manually from the 9110 to a memory card then to the 9210

2. Extract the files in the image file used to update the PDA part from DOS...

If we could do this, then it's no problem to "fake" a 9110 filesystem in the 9210 using eredir.exe which comes with the emulator..


Let's say we make this folder in the MMC : GEOS

And the tree will look like this


MMC--|
GEOS
|---- B
|----- C
|------D

Where B,C and D is the "fake" drives from the 9110

then we could easily use eredir.exe to create fake drives in DOS

for example eredir B: epoc32\D:\GEOS\B
will make the directory B in the GEOS dir at the MMC into B:\> in DOs and so on...

Is anybody of you cabable of doing this ? or is it just a crazy idea ?

Maybe this will work, maybe it won't.. Just a suggestion =) and we could have some fun if we could get it to work.. :D


Cheers!

QuantumII