A while ago I experimented running various operating systems on the Nokia N900. Now with the availability of N900 hardware emulation in QEMU (see http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Meego_on_Qemu ) I decided to try this the other way around. The result: Regular N900 Maemo software straight out of the phone boots in QEMU, but no GUI since there is no SGX graphics emulation in the Maemo QEMU yet.

(in soviet Russia, the computer boots YOU)

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People have asked me to package the Bochs IA-32 PC emulator that I used for running Windows NT 4.0, and today I’ve done it. It is available from the Fremantle extras-devel repository: http://maemo.org/packages/view/bochs/

I have configured the package in the way that I found works best on the N900 and included a sample config file that works for running NT 4.0, as a starting point for others. Also the version is 2.3.7 and not the latest, since in my experience 2.3.7 was the most stable on the N900 – this might of course change or have already changed.

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A while ago, Qt Software released some helpful software and instructions on how to make real homescreen widgets on the N900 using Qt 4.6. As I had already previously implemented my Luxus light meter widget as a sort-of homescreen widget – as part of an experiment if it’s possible to do a Qt app for N900 from scratch in one day and get it published too – I was of course intrigued in finding out how easy it would be to enable it as a full-blown homescreen widget. It turned out to be pretty easy!

Continue reading Luxus Light Meter v0.2 for N900, as a real homescreen widget →

From the "just for fun!" department: Full version of Mac OS X 10.3 running on the N900! I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone EVER to run the full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). Youtube video below.

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I thought to give it a try if one could make a Maemo 5/N900 app from scratch, and publish it on the Maemo.org extras-devel repository, all in just one day. Well, it was possible! The result is the Luxus 0.1 light meter desktop widget, and you can get it from extras-devel today.

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Randall Arnold has created an excellent Maemo Community outreach flyer, and I am especially happy about it since he has chosen to use my Maemo Summit 2009 pictures in it. Go and check it out at: http://maemo-daemons.org/maemo-org_community-flyer1_Maemo5.pdf !

People are asking me just exactly how does one install ScummVM? Well, the answer has changed. With my version, you pretty much had to know some basic Maemo hacking to get it installed. However, now as the official version of ScummVM is available from the Maemo Extras-devel repository, all you have to is:

• Enable the extras-devel repository. Short version: Go to applications manager, select software catalogues, add a new entry for extras-devel. More detailed: See for example this web page: http://maemocentral.com/2009/12/29/how-to-enable-extras-extras-testing-extras-devel-repositories-on-the-n900-with-one-click/  
• Install scummvm from Application Manager: Select Download, then Games, then scroll until you see ScummVM. Click, follow instructions, and that should do it! 

It was only a matter of time, after I got the Bochs PC emulator working on N900, I just had to try how slow Windows NT 4.0 would be inside it I’ll post further details of how exactly I did it later, but for now, here it is: