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Lots of bug fixes related to host filesystem access among other things.

Version 0.11 was just released. The big new feature is initial VGA support. You can enable it in the configuration file. (Don't forget to comment out the CGA module.)

Proper UART abstraction, improved Lua module scripting among other things.

You can now use Lua to prototype simple ISA bus devices.
https://github.com/andreas-jonsson/virtualxt/blob/develop/modules/lua/serial_deb...

Lots of new cool features! GLaBIOS, new module system and much more.

If you just want some extra space for games etc. you can also just extend the included image and add another partition.
That way you do not have to bother copying any system files. (You can free up some space on C: by deleting or moving the games folder.)

* Download freedos_hd.img from GitHub. (Make sure it is from the 0.8 branch if that is what you are using.)

* Expand the disk image size: $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=250 >> freedos_hd.img

* Boot VirtualXT with just the HD: $ ./VirtualXT-x86_64.AppImage -c freedos_hd.img

* Create a new D drive with fdisk: Z:\> FDISK

* Reboot FreeDOS: Z:\> REBOOT

* Format the new secondary partition: Z:\> FORMAT D:

Hi!
Sorry to here you are having troubles.

Can I just start by asking if you are using the provided AppImage or have you built from source?

The steps you have done should work and I have no problem doing the same on my Fedora machine. :(
Can you please try without COPY/XCOPY the content from the floppy to the fixed disk. Just to see if that goes wrong.

Also pay attention to any error messages FORMAT gives you with the /s option. Some times I have done a normal format and then executed A:\> SYS C:

Just going to outline my exact steps here:

* Download VirtualXT-SDL (version 0.8 for Linux)
* Extract the zip file
* Extract the FreeDOS floppy image or download it from: https://github.com/andreas-jonsson/virtualxt/blob/develop/boot/freedos.img
* Create a empty HD image: truncate -s 100M disk.img
* Boot from the floppy with the HD image mounted: ./VirtualXT-x86_64.AppImage -a freedos.img -c disk.img
* Run fdisk: Z:\> FDISK
* Create a primary partition and exit fdisk. (Make sure it is only one FAT16 primary partition)
* Reboot the FreeDOS: Z:\> REBOOT
* Format the new disk like this:
      Z:\> A:
      A:\> FORMAT C:
      A:\> SYS C:

* Close VirtualXT and restart it like this: ./VirtualXT-x86_64.AppImage -c disk.img

ISA passthrough is now supported using Arstech USB2ISA adapter or the CH367 development board.

It should be noted that DMA is still not supported and the CH367 board, as it is right now, has VERY poor hardware compatibility. The performance is also not ideal on any of those adapters. We hope to be able to optimize this in the future but it is clear that the current adapters suffers from high latency.

Hi!

Glad you like it. :)

There is a GitHub issue open for improving the image mounting experience.

But assuming you are using the SDL desktop version, you should be able to use 1 floppy and 1 harddrive mounted at the same time plus the RIFS file share at Z:
You (re)mount new floppy images by draging image files on to the emulator window.

The RFSI system is/might be a bit buggy atm. but it usually works well enough for some basic file copying between the host and guest system. It does require the VXTDRV driver so make sure it is included if you make your own boot image. RFSI mounts current workdir by default but can be controlled with the '--rfsi' argument. You can start the emulator with '-a' and/or '-c' to mount a image in the corresponding drive. Floppy always have boot priority. This can be overridden with the '--hdboot' argument. 

If you mount a none bootable HD with the '-c' option you can use the included 'freedos.img' boot floppy with '-a' to boot from floppy but have access to your HD.

If you are using the libretro core or web frontend your options are more limited. The libretro frontend can load ZIP archives directly but is limited in its capability of mounting disks at runtime.

VirtualXT 0.8 is released.

VirtualXT 0.8 (testing) is now available from the libretro official repository.

Hi!

I'm sorry but I'm no longer working on the project.

The source code for the Android client is available if anyone else want to pick it up.

Sure, u are free to do so if u want.

I had to take the public server down tough. :(
But you can host your own. (The server is included.)

The client/frontends are OpenSource so you can play around with them if you want.

Hi!

Sorry no. I have not done anything since the rc3 release. If you watch the GitHub repo you will see when stuff gets comitted.

There has been limited interest in this game. So I don't know when I will get around to do any more updates.

Thanks for your interest!

Version 0.0.1-rc.3 is released.

It contains minor build fixes for Linux including new .flatpak builds for those who are not using snap's. The .deb build is now removed.

Hi Invaderzimnerd!

I have looked at enabling the virtual keyboard for the Android version. Unfortunately this requires some changes to the rendering (caused by the a settings in the manifest) that would require more time for me to figure out. I much rather spend the time I have in improving the game it self.

Sorry if this is disappointing to you...
I'll promise to let you know when I do more updates to the Android version.

At least it got me thinking.... and I think I'll implement a custom keyboard ingame.

Hi!

Sorry for the late response.

I just got back from vacation so I have not had any time to spend on my games. I'll try to add the "backend" code for the keyboard next week.
But I'm not sure how the well it will work... Perhaps there are some more PC like keyboard you can download on Android for playing games on...?

I will do some maintenance on the client code when I get back from my vacation (sometime during August) I'll do an experiment with the virtual keyboard then. If it is not too much work I'll add it for you to test and if it works I'll add it in the next release.

Hi!

There is no keyboard support in the Android version yet. So there will not be any virtual keyboard displayed.
I'll put this on the prio list if this is something you want to try.

Don't know how well this will play on a phone with a virtual keyboard tough. :)

I do not have a dev plan for this game. But if enough people like it I might put some time in.

I will take note that this is something that you would like to see and make sure it gets a prio bump.

It is actually already there. :) But there is no keyboard support in the Android app at the moment so you can't access the menus.

Not sure how I should do it... The simplest way is to popup a virtual keyboard. But I'm not sure that would be good enough. The Android version was just a proof-of-concept so I never intended it to be used for anything else then observing others play.

Do you use a phone or a tablet for playing?

Glad you like it. The mobile version would need a lot of work to be "mobile friendly" but at least it works. :)
Things are moving quite slow during the summer but hopefully I will have some time to work on my games later this year.

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