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Support and General Use => Plugins/Viewers => Topic started by: Something21 on February 15, 2019, 02:56:07 PM

Title: Windows 95 emulator on iPod classic 3rd generation
Post by: Something21 on February 15, 2019, 02:56:07 PM
i am quite new to coding and by new i mean i know nothing about it, yet but i need to know a few things:
1 can a plugin select files on the device like a virtual hard drive or an iso file
2 can a plugin use the headphone jack for sound output
i plan to have a bar at the bottom of the screen while in windows with characters like leftclick, rightclick, letters of the alphabet, and the numbers as well as keys like enter and space and the symbols that you can scroll though with the clickwheel and the center button to select the character as well as the skip <,>, playpause, and menu to move the mouse cursor 

obviously i know its going to be more complex than this but i need to know if a plugin can do these things
Title: Re: Windows 95 emulator on iPod classic 3rd generation
Post by: saratoga on February 15, 2019, 06:00:13 PM
Plugins can access the file system and play audio, but this is not a realistic project for you to attempt.
Title: Re: Windows 95 emulator on iPod classic 3rd generation
Post by: LambdaCalculus on February 19, 2019, 01:05:08 PM
Unless you want to aim for one of those "joke" simulators (i.e. the ones that just let you click on an icon and watch something silly happen; see WindowsPE on the Palm), this is literally not possible to do.
Title: Re: Windows 95 emulator on iPod classic 3rd generation
Post by: __builtin on February 28, 2019, 09:04:45 PM
There actually exists a working x86 emulator plugin (assuming a lenient definition of "working"), so I'd hesitate to call it impossible. But that doesn't make it not useless.