hi im new and was wondering if there is some way of running menuet on my pda.

there may be a way but you would have to make your own drivers and almoast start from scach. you would also have to compile it for the dragon ball proseser. It may be posible but don't ask me to do it.

lol not all PDA's run on the Dragonball CPU, some run on "Intel XScale", some run on "ARM StrongArm" mine uses a "Hitachi SH4 200mhz"

If your loking fo an os on a pda you might fined contiki os interesting. I runs on 8 bit computers and has a server, web brouser, and gui in a few kilowbites

yep, I know that they all use diforent prosesers. It is a real nighmare making things wok on them all. I personaly like palm os. I can make programs for it ezily and doon't evin have to compule them becouse i am using a basic interperter

What kined of pda are we talking becouse there are many linux distros for i paqs and older palm III. I personaly havent played around with them much but I have tried a form of linux for the palm. You can search it on goolgle and fined it.

it is only possible to run menuet on a pda with x86 processor (and even then it probably will not work fully because of unsupported hardware)...

luka666: there arent any x86 based pda's afaik XScale is a RISC architecture, StrongARM is RISC and SH4 is an architecture of its own

look at contiki os
it is writen in c and was origonaly made for the comedor
it hasbeen ported to the game boy and many other computers

Andrew: i know there arent. That was just a nice way of telling the guy that he cant run menuet on PDA ;>

lol unless he wants to re-write it all in ASM for that particular architecture

I think that this could be done with macros - just replace x86 mov operand with dragonball ones and you're set
I *think* you can change fasm source and replace add eax,ebx defined bytes with dragonball ones, but this is again just one of my theories...

The real problems start to rise when you hope you have the same interrupts and calls :S that would be the hardest thing to do.

isnt there a way to do things well backwards? what i mean is take the ASM source convert it to C/C++ and make it platform independent?

There is a pc emulator that runs on a PDA, its desgned for run Dos progams, but you may be able to run MenuetOS very slowly ?.
http://www.pocketdos.com/

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Batteries not included, Some assembly required.

erm if its EMU's DOS calls and DOS16/DOS32 menuetOS wont run on it as it needs a x86 EMU

Its so post to emulat other OS as well.
Take a look in Specifications:
"Compatible with several non-DOS operating systems"
I did say maybe run MenuetOS .

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ASHLEY4.

Batteries not included, Some assembly required.

>Its so post to emulat other OS as well.
From the pocketdos site:

CPU emulation:

* Intel 80188/80186

From the Menuetos site:

Processor:
386 and above

Windows 98SE emulated on Pocket PC:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/22/1816251.shtml?tid=137&tid=184&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201