getting started with magic dosbox on android

I'm also toying the idea to make custom (special for chosen games) onscreen controls for anDosBox (it's open source) to play on touchscreen only (e.g. I'm looking forward for this qwerty phone that should be the ultimate device for turn-based blobbers and goldbox games. But qwerty phones with horisontal diaplays (to show 320x200 properly) is hard to find theese days - last models are from 2011.

I tried MM3 on qwerty-keyboard phone and played through the first town. Playing on touchscreen only is not very comfortable even with anDosBox' absolute mouse mode. The state of dosboxes on android is not great: aDosBox is a straightforward port has broken scaling and is very slow, anDosBox is great but unsupported and DosBoxTurbo is a rip-off version of anDosBox and was made closed-source in recent versions (which is illegal, because original DosBox is GPL'd). Important: in aDosBox set mouse emulation left click to Tap instead of Normal, or for some reason You won't be able to drag the cursor to the top half of the screen (both phone and tablet).Īs for the phone, considering we have the 6 on-screen buttons to use, and one of them is mapped to Esc, can one of M&M experts which of the following buttons are most often used in the game and should be mapped to the remaining 5? : Needless to say, it's not very convenient. Touchpad is kind of useless, as it has its own cursor, which You can then use to drag the original in-game cursor around. This can be partially circumvented by using the remappable on-screen buttons, but there are only six of them, so one of the function keys will not be mapped (Escape key is more important). I've run the game on transfomer tablet with keyboard and it is of course much better, although the lack of F1-F6 keys (and also no Escape key) is kind of annoying.

Getting started with magic dosbox on android