Run DOS, Windows 3.11 on Your BlackBerry PlayBook

[JMcEntegart]

Give your PlayBook a retro feel.

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[Northwestern]

DOS is dead, they once said.

 

[masterasia]

This is stupid, who would want to do this?

 

[rb420]

It is not that stupid. Never underestimate the nostalgia effect of being able to play all the old DOS games.

 

[KonstantinDK]

I still play old Sid Myer's Colonization game from 1994. Have to install vurtual PC or XP mode ot run it though. Play it about every 1-2 yers so far.

 

[Guest]

Legacy software to operate older piece of manufacturing equipment still use these old OSs.

 

[nikorr]

[citation][nom]Northwestern[/nom]DOS is dead, they once said.[/citation]
It never was : ) That is the truth!

 

[jsc]

I occasionally play the original Descent from Interplay. But I bet it is sort of difficult hooking up joystick and throttle controls to a Playbook.

 

[mcd023]

[citation][nom]masterasia[/nom]This is stupid, who would want to do this?[/citation]

cause it's cool. duh! haha that's why we do half the nerdy stuff anyway.

 

[jgiron]

You can play all the GoldBox games and then there are a slew of others that are a lot of fun.
I was hoping DOSbox would come to the tablet arena

 

[dontknownotsure]

come back when it runs win7

 

[memadmax]

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????

 

[jacobdrj]

Time to get my collection of Duke Nukem games, and play some hard core side-scrolling action...

And TIE fighter... Although, TIE fighter always had issues with Stack Overflow errors and needing custom Autoexec.bat files... Don't know how it will react to this...

Man, Rebel Assault 2: Funnest game ever...

 

[WyomingKnott]

Cool! I can't play Lemmings anymore; even though I can boot to DOS, the machines these days are just too fast.

 

[tanjo]

Cool! Prince of Persia 😀 How about Warcraft 2 and CNC Gold?

 

[seana45]

O M G D O S

Test Drive 3, Stunts, BLAKE STONE!

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]mcd023[/nom]cause it's cool. duh! haha that's why we do half the nerdy stuff anyway.[/citation]

nah all it shows is just another guy with too much time on his hands

 

[mrmotion]

Anyone for some Commander Keen?

 

[COLGeek]

Beware the emulators!!! They rarely support the one thing folks really want (games) with any level of acceptable performance.

 

[alfaalex101]

[citation][nom]rb420[/nom]It is not that stupid. Never underestimate the nostalgia effect of being able to play all the old DOS games.[/citation]

Better than most of the lame Android/iOS games out there

 

[igot1forya]

I completed "Return to Zork" about month ago using aDOSBOX on my Moto Xoom- I still have my original Installation Disks for it!

 

[rb420]

[citation][nom]alfaalex101[/nom]Better than most of the lame Android/iOS games out there[/citation]

Very true. Although that may change as Ice Cream Sandwich gains more market share, with its native USB support.

 

[icemunk]

[citation][nom]rb420[/nom]Very true. Although that may change as Ice Cream Sandwich gains more market share, with its native USB support.[/citation]
Umm.. native USB support, why is that going to help?

 

[Thunderfox]

Now someone please make a WebOS version so I can do this with my firesale touchpad.

 

[igot1forya]

[citation][nom]Thunderfox[/nom]Now someone please make a WebOS version so I can do this with my firesale touchpad.[/citation]
Root it, install Android, problem solved.