Now when I re-compiled my dll was larger, and dumpbin verified that there were exports. Then I remembered a while ago I had posted about creating DLL’s and how Visual C++ could call GCC’s dlls and vice versa (C only, I never said C++!!!) so looking back, I then went to the needed procedures, and set them up as “_declspec(dllexport)”. I couldn’t figure out how to feed a ‘.def’ file into the Platform Builder system, so I kind of was at an impas. And it confirmed what I had suspected, there was no exported symbols. After some poking around, I then remembered the great “dumpbin” utility. And that’s pretty damned small for some 90kb of C code. What I also didn’t get is that the dll was only 4kb. So I followed the instructions as best as I could, compiled the driver & the loader, inserted them into the ROM, built the CEPC, and booted up and… nothing happened! The paper is titled “Designing a Hard Disk Driver for Windows CE 2.12”, by Stephen Hague & Chris Wood which certainly is a step in the right direction! The best part, is that the archive also snagged the source code!!!! That is until I somehow came across this link:īut thanks to the internet archive… it lives on here: So something like SIMH with data files of several hundred megabytes would be out. Yes, that’s right, Windows CE cannot access IDE disks. Then the final straw was that the “ROM” can’t access IDE hard disks. Finally the only included NDIS driver I can quickly run is the NE2000, under Qemu (I assume I haven’t even tackled the networking yet), and on Qemu I’m stuck at 320×200…. Then there is no built in apps, like Pocket Internet explorer, hell even NOTEPAD. So within a few minutes I was well on my way to building my own MAXALL version of Windows CE 2.11, when I found out that there are a few snags with this old version.įirst is that there is no shell.

So I thought this would be a great little project for the thing, starting with the CEPC, an x86 version of Windows CE that runs on any normal PC.Īfter I gave up fighting the installer, I just decided it’d be best to run this on Windows NT 4.0, and the install went smooth, I just selected the x86 platform for now, as I don’t have any physical SH3/MIPS/PowerPC gear I’d want to play with, and at any rate I think adapting Windows CE must be a major chore, as nobody has done it, even to Qemu…. Years ago I’d picked up a copy of the “Windows CE Platform builder 2.11”, but I never really did anything with it. So I was thinking about the idea of an embedded version of SIMH to run on small machines (old cellphones) and maybe a PC or something, else weird… Sure Linux & BSD would work, and be so easy, but where is the fun in that?

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