You'll need the
MIPS version of any applications for that device, several you've listed are for SH3 or ARM instead.
I don't know anything about all of the applications there, but I do know about these:
There is a MIPS version of PocketDOS that should work on 2.0.
Download PocketDOS from here
(
http://www.mediator-software.com/pocketdos/download.htm), and download the one for
2.1 and earlier. Extract the .EXE with 7-zip and ignore the error message about extra data.
From there, install at least PocketDOS.mips_hpc.CAB
(the program
) and FREEDOS_100.CAB
(a copy of FreeDOS
) to your device.
If you don't have much space, you can use FREEDOS_BOOT_100.CAB which doesn't have all the utilities, but is enough to start FreeDOS in PocketDOS.
GNUBoy won't work on a device below CE 3.0, but PalmGB
(
https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/1085/P._Felber_M._Fayzulin/PalmGB/version_1.01?page=details) should work.
Rename 'PalmGB
(no sound
).exe.MIPS' to just 'PalmGB
(no sound
).exe'. This version is quite slow though due to the lack of any screen drawing acceleration. Ignore the version that has sound, as PalmGB's sound emulation is really bad.
There's a newer, much faster version of PalmGB available here
(
https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/1163/Hayes_Haugen/PalmGB/version_2.0.1010) that runs more games and might also work, but that one
requires a registration key. It'll only work for two minutes without it.
There's also Python for CE1 and CE2 devices
(
https://www.hpcfactor.com/scl/1134/PythonCE/Python/version_1.0b1).
Follow the instructions in the readme. It is very sensitive to which paths it will work in.
It's a very old version of Python though, so any scripts you want to use will need editing.
To run a script, put it in the Scripts folder and import it. If it doesn't execute immediately, run [name of script].main
(
). If that doesn't work either, look for the
if __name__=='__main__' line in the file and run whatever function gets called there.
For example,
>>> import status
>>> status.main()
will run the status script. Rename .py files to .txt to edit them, then rename them back to run.
As for a machine that ran the most software... you'd ideally want something like like a Jornada 720, since the lion's share of CE software wants CE3 and an ARM CPU instead of SH3 or MIPS. A newer device than that would be even better honestly, but there's been a lot of focus on the 720 in particular.
I wish I had one of those. Maybe some months down the line when I have money to burn, hah.
Edited by null1024 2022-03-11 9:27 PM