Win 95 App running on my ppc?
 

I have been searching since last night for this...

I have a Win95 Program, a FoxPro database with an .exe that is the GUI. It runs on win 95 and up. I need this on my ppc for looking up the data.

I have seen emulators for games and more.

Is there any way to tun this app on my ppc, I tried, the ppc 6700 said it wasn't a valid app.

Thanks,

A FoxPro app was most likely writeen in C for a x86 processor. The processor in your PPC (or any PPC for that matter) is an ARM processor with a totally different instruction set. So, running an app designed for X86 CPU will not run under an ARM CPU, no matter what.

Well.. this is both correct and not correct.

Since the application was written for a different operating system and a different processor architecture, it won't run on your Windows Mobile device. However, it is possible to use an emulator to emulate the functions of an x86 processor and even parts of the Win32 API that Windows 95 used. If this wasn't possible, then you wouldn't have any NES, SNES, N64, etc. games running on your Windows Mobile device as those use yet another processor architecture, different instruction sets, hardware and even APIs.

Now is this practical? Heavens no! As far as I know, no one has developed an emulator that could run Windows applications on a Windows Mobile device. If they did, I would imagine it would take up quite a bit amount of memory just to run the emulator let alone any application.

You may want to check with the manufacturer to see if they had any versions for CE or maybe have a custom application developed for you that can read and write their data.

If there is a DOS version there are a number of emulators of PCs running DOS. If it is a very complex program I am not sure if it would run well though.

There is a DOS version, which emulator do you recommend?

OOPS 2x post...sorry.

PocketDOS is probably the most reliable if not the most powerful. They have a demo you can try here:

http://forums.pocketpcfaq.com/viewforum.php?f=28

or at least there should be a link to it from there.

Decided to use RDM+ to control a remote computer running the app. RDM+ works great, check it out at shapeservices.com

As an IT director, I embrace "If it's not broke, dont fix it" but at the same time, there comes a point when the system/methods you are using have become antiquated. You should really look into a more modern and easily accessible option like SQL.