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**rprosperi** · 02-06-2020, 01:49 PM

(02-05-2020 11:26 PM)mfleming Wrote: Harrah! Thanks Dave! Everything old is new again, and here's my proof...

Mark - Isn't that device based on Android? Does it run DOSBox ?

BTW, Great old meets new photo!!

Another might be this machine running the CK actually connected to an HP Palmtop; it may appear that the machines were trying to mate somehow... Big Grin

mfleming · 02-06-2020, 04:15 PM

(02-06-2020 01:49 PM)rprosperi Wrote: Mark - Isn't that device based on Android? Does it run DOSBox ?

BTW, Great old meets new photo!!

Another might be this machine running the CK actually connected to an HP Palmtop; it may appear that the machines were trying to mate somehow...

As Dave pointed out, the device is from Planet Computer in the U.K., though it is their new PDA/Phone model.

https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator

It runs Android 9, but they promise soon to release a Linux port so you can dual-boot like the Gemini PDA. I'm running DOSBox from Play Store but having some problem with keyboard mapping at the moment. With fewer keys than a standard keyboard, it uses a function key to map many of the lesser used punctuation characters, and DOSBox doesn't grok them. Hopefully get that ironed out soon so a side-by-side can be posted!

~Mark

**rprosperi** · 02-06-2020, 11:31 PM

(02-06-2020 04:15 PM)mfleming Wrote: As Dave pointed out, the device is from Planet Computer in the U.K., though it is their new PDA/Phone model.

https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator

It runs Android 9, but they promise soon to release a Linux port so you can dual-boot like the Gemini PDA. I'm running DOSBox from Play Store but having some problem with keyboard mapping at the moment. With fewer keys than a standard keyboard, it uses a function key to map many of the lesser used punctuation characters, and DOSBox doesn't grok them. Hopefully get that ironed out soon so a side-by-side can be posted!

~Mark

I am familiar with the device and followed it's protracted birth over many years, and I thought there Android and Win10 versions, had not heard about a Linux version coming, that should be interesting.

I also didn't know you could run DOSBox on it, that makes it more interesting.

Now if only I can find my original exotic CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXECT.BAT files to configure QEMM, PC-Kwik Cache, Fansi-Console and 4DOS shell. Those were the DOS days...

Massimo Gnerucci · (This post was last modified: 02-07-2020 07:07 AM by Massimo Gnerucci.)

(02-06-2020 11:31 PM)rprosperi Wrote: Now if only I can find my original exotic CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXECT.BAT files to configure QEMM, PC-Kwik Cache, Fansi-Console and 4DOS shell. Those were the DOS days...

Still have them: on a VM from a 1996 backup... :D

Also have another one with QEMM + DesQview! Fun, fun, fun!!

jthole · (This post was last modified: 02-07-2020 10:39 AM by jthole.)

(02-05-2020 12:00 AM)rprosperi Wrote: JT - Since you are aware of the 17BII+ Solver bugs, and are testing these things, maybe run some of the 'bad cases' on both the real device and emulator and see if the results are identical; that may answer this.

I have to trust others for the results on the real device (I only have the older 17Bii, and not the "Plus" - which actually should be called the "Minus" ...), but I tested the emulator against the known flaws (e.g. this equation: A=0xsigma(I:1:10:1:L(S:S+I)) ). Interestingly, the emulator seems more flawed here than the actual "Plus" (which is reported to return 110 for S):

On the older 17Bii, I get A=0 and S=55 (correct evaluation of the expression).

On the "Plus", people got A=0 and S=110.

On the emulator, I get "SOLUTION NOT FOUND", which obviously is not correct.

That is, after clearing the variables, and also after explicitly assigning 0 to them.

So, with the remark that I cannot test it on a real "Plus", the emulator seems to have a serious flaw here indeed.