Can the WM or PPC shell be made to run on top of CE?

Just wondered...

No reason really other than I like to have a little play about from time to time.

Was just wondering if on, say a sig3 or smartbook, it would be possible to add the missing files and make it run the WM shell (touch screen version, not phone version)?

John

TFGBD has done something along those lines. (Hopefully we'll hear from him again soon.)

Was speeking to cmonex last night on IRC, she pointed me in his direction....

I'll try and ask him next time he is on IRC.

Thanks

John

i found the alpha package on my pc, can send that.

Frankly, I'd rather see the opposite - the core CE desktop on a Windows Mobile device.

that's also in plans

a HTC Athena's 5" VGA screen with CE desktop, woo hoo

Put it in landscape on a Pocket PC screen - that'd be my dream come true. (Actually, even in portrait it'd be cool - kinda like a Windows Mobile Palm-size PC. )

my athena is always in landscapee, so.. btw if it works there, then htc universal will be fine too which ppc do you own?

can you send me the alpha pack? i would try it on my netbook pro

ok, we can talk on MSN tomorrow

1) Dell Axim X5 (Windows Mobile 2003 First Edition, unfortunately)
2) Compaq Aero 1550 (Pocket PC 2000)
3) upgraded Compaq Aero 2180 (Pocket PC 2000)

That's why I'm hoping for something natively in landscape mode - don't have any Pocket PCs that can change to landscape mode.

I am sorry - I couldn't resist this...

After lots of use out of my old Windows CE 2.0 Sharp HC4000 in 2003, I longed to find a newer version of the Palm-sized PC; portrait format with WinCE shell (not PPC shell).

I didn't.

So I settled for a Casio Pocket Manager (Cassiopeia BE-300) and include a screenshot so you can see what it looks like somewhat modified.

With a BIG thanks to BE-Central and ABFnet and The BE Advancement Society I have lots of use and hours of fun out of this PDA. This interface is more interesting than the normal Casio gui although that is still able to be run as an application and swithcing to the coshell.exe instead of the ceshell.exe is just a small registry change and a reboot!

This website is extremely useful too, because the BE-300 has a mips chip and lots of things like Terminal Services etc will run on it.

Thanks to all who run this site as well as the sites I mentioned earlier.





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heh, mips, arm has more software available... btw, TFGBD is teh BE300 hacker on this site.
oh, also, have you ever considered using the cenet upgrade?


CE Geek: who cares if it is first edition. we can port second edition on it with no real effort (just some time investment is required).

Edited by cmonex 2008-07-28 6:55 PM

The folks on the BAS site pretty much condemn the CE .net upgrade (they call it the "CE .not downgrade" ).

Thanx for the screenshot, stefcuch - I've been trying to sort out how to do the CE shell conversion on my BE-300, but I just get lost in the steps. I haven't succeeded thus far with either that or the BEShell conversion.

yes, they condemn it, and tfgbd can't begin to understand why