Free console software for pda

PocketConsole (ARM) 1.3 is a free software designed to provide a console device for Pocket PCs. Consoles manage input and output (I/O) for character-mode applications (applications that do not provide their own graphical user interface).

PocketConsole has built in advanced features from the Windows NT console. Since PocketConsole is full compatible with Microsoft's Windows CE device driver model you can run any character-mode application written for Windows CE Handheld's on your Pocket PC without modification.

On the applications page you can download some character-mode programs which run on PocketConsole. If you are a Pocket PC software developer, then PocketConsole will simplify porting console mode applications from Windows and Unix to the Pocket PC.

Enhancements:

• The PocketConsole menu has been changed to accord with the PocketPC design guidelines. (You will find the Close button under the Tools menu now);
• Add QuickEdit button at the command bar;
• Add In line input mode you can use the stylus to place the cursor;
• Fix: the dwControlKeyState member of the INPUT_RECORD structure delivered a bogus value.

ColEm is a Palm OS port of Marat Fayazullins ColEm emulator.
It allows to play all games written for the ColecoVision console on any OS5 Palm with a HiRes Screen and a 5 way navigator.
The emu needs a BIOS file and ROMS which must be provided by the user.
System requirements:
- Palm Tungsten T
- Palm OS v5.0

pDOSBox is a PocketPC port of the infamous DOSBox DOS-emulator. pDOSBox 0.63-p1 is based on the latest DOSBox 0.63 (as of April 2005).
pDOSBox has been developed on a PocketPC 2003 SE, and it should also run just as well on PocketPC 2002.
Like DOSBox, pDOSBox emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, DOS-like directory filesystem/XMS/EMS, mouse/joystick and EGA/VGA/VESA graphics system. The DOS o/s being emulated is rather rudimentary, but good enough to launch your favorite DOS applications, and even batch-file-driven DOS applications. You may choose to install other o/s like MSDOS, FreeBSD, Linux, etc on top of the CPU emulator.
Unlike DOSBox, sound system emulation (SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card) is not available in pDOSBox. This may change in future ports depending on popular demand.
pDOSBox is statically linked to SDL library. And pDOSBox can be run off your Storage Card. This means you need not install some user dll or executable into the precious storage memory of your device.
Stylus (mouse) alignment
For games that use mouse interrupt, the cursor will appear to be constantly (rather than linearly) offset against the tap position of your stylus. With such a game, you will need to do a simple alignment task in order to get an "accurate" stylus/cursor corelation.
If the cursor always appears on the top-left area of the stylus tap, simply tap on the top-left corner of the screen. Likewise, if the cursor always appear on the top-right area of the stylus tap, simply tap on the top-right corner of the screen. Easy.
Reminder
- Delete all Beta 1.0 files before installing Beta 2.0.
- Please read the text documentation in the config file.
- Please install pDOSBox manually via "Start Menu" (see readme.txt in the zip file)
- Do not install pocket console.
- Do not run pDOSBox with a virtual display driver or SE_VGA activated.
- Do not rename the install files.
- Do not delete the files in the "data" directory
Enhancements:
- GUS sound card working properly.
- Sound stuttering reduced.
- Support for newer games that use mouse interrupt (instead of mouse polling). However, need to do mouse alignment (see below).
- Graceful exit on errors, with a popup window to display error message instead of just crash silently. Dont need pocket console to catch error message.
- Soft Keypad button-blink lockups eliminated.
- PPC navigation buttons can be used to display different toolbars (left/righ buttons), and to popup/popdown the scrolling keypad (up/down buttons). Dont need to scroll when popped up.
- A simple frontend to detect screen size, CPU type and clock speed, and screen orientation.
- DOS memory allocation (memsize) can be set to auto which will attempt to allocation as much as possible (up to 8MB) without crashing.
- Simplified config file now truly works out-of-the-box with the auto-detection done by the frontend.
- Emulated CPU cycles automatically increased accordingly when sound is disable. (only when cycles = auto)
- Sound is automatically disabled if a low end PPC (ARM<<less