Hi,

I'm searching for informations to emulate a X86 machine properly to do some Word and excel work.
I should boot under linux or MOl, but this way is boring me. I dont want exit my morphos only to read a little .doc file or other unsupported file format.

I tryed Bochs, but it doesn't support nice screen resolutions. Only 640x480 in 16 colors. It's very poor.
Will it be possible in a near futur to use better resolutions?

I remembre my first steps on X86 emulation with my A1200 and PCtask. This emulator was very slow, but it used screen nice resolutions. I tryed it on Morphos, but unfortunatly, it dont want use my old Hard-Drive image. I tryed to make a new one without succes.

who can help me to solve this situation please?


[ Edited by serge on 2006/8/29 8:11 ]

For reading MS Word document I use Ambient MS Word filetype (by my friend Flegy) - I just doubleclick Word document in MorphOS and thanks to "msword" filetype it shows MS Word document with images(!) via APDF (MS Word -> Antiword -> Apdf). I can't help you with x86 emulation, I know, it's only for reading MS DOC files, but I think this is great to know, it's simple and FAST!

Copy "msword" to SYS:Prefs/Ambient/filetypes/application

Req. Antiword and Apdf.

Problems with attachment...

AMTD
1
Name WORD Document
Type application/msword
Action
Name View with AntiWord -> PDF
Event DoubleClick
Command AmigaDOS Run >NIL: SYS:C/antiword -r -s -m CP1250.txt -i 0 -a A4 %sp >RAM:T/temp.pdf
Command AmigaDOS Wait 1
Command AmigaDOS SYS:Apps/Apdf/Apdf RAM:T/temp.pdf
Command AmigaDOS Run >NIL: Delete RAM:T/temp.pdf
End
Action
Name View with AntiWord
Event Menu
Command AmigaDOS SYS:C/antiword -r -s -m CP1250.txt %sp
End
End


[ Edited by luky-amiga on 2006/8/29 9:45 ]

thank you very much this nice Ambient MS Word filetype. This is an elegant way to view Word files. Is it possible to do the same with Excel files?

I tried this, but it did not work for me :(
Looks there is a problem in the command line?
If I remove the "-r" than I will get an Output only from Antiword, as an
Textfile. The xy.pdf file in Ram has always 0 kb .

What is wrong here?
Using Antiword032b2

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You're wrong, see here and here...


- CISC

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Why do you do it like this? Looks like a good way to have a race on large documents... Is there any particular reason you have to Run antiword?


- CISC

@ CISC:
great news about bochs and VESA modes. But Are they working with Morphos Port ?

Please use Antiword 0.37, it works for me.

Antiword converts MS Word document into the PDF and Apdf show this file. It's not possible to view MS Word documents without Antiword. 1 sec wait is just quick idea, maybe there should be one more option to convert Word -> PDF only and don't view it via Apdf because of race condition on large documents (high probability).

MS Word Ambient filetype can't show MS Excel documents, but I just found, that there is project called Antiexcel on SF.net - sb can try to port this app, but it uses Perl language

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Yes, I understood this part, but if you remove the Run >NIL: part you don't have to Wait 1 (and there's no possibility for a race), is there any particular reason you don't do that? ;)


- CISC

Ah, I see! Author of this filetype is my friend Flegy. It looks like he wanted to disable Antiword output. I will tell him about your hint. Maybe I should fix filetype here, ok? But I can't try it now, I hope it will work. Thanks CISC!!


[ Edited by luky-amiga on 2006/8/30 12:25 ]

Ok, there is new fixed MS Word filetype for Ambient (removed Run and Wait 1):

AMTD
1
Name WORD Document
Type application/msword
Action
Name View with AntiWord -> PDF
Event DoubleClick
Command AmigaDOS antiword -r -s -m 8859-2.txt -i 0 -a A4 %sp >RAM:T/temp.pdf
Command AmigaDOS SYS:Apps/Apdf/Apdf RAM:T/temp.pdf
Command AmigaDOS Delete RAM:T/temp.pdf >NIL:
End
Action
Name View with AntiWord
Event Menu
Command AmigaDOS antiword -r -s -m 8859-2.txt %sp
End
End

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But without "Run", Antiword prints "I can find name of your HOME directory" To disable this annoying messege, you can setenv HOME - I don't know better solution for now.

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Easy, just add *>NIL: (yes, really: *>NIL:). ;)


- CISC

Thanks CISC! "*>NIL:" is exactly what I was looking for

There is final version (I hope) of MS Word filetype:

AMTD
1
Name WORD Document
Type application/msword
Action
Name View with AntiWord -> PDF
Event DoubleClick
Command AmigaDOS antiword -r -s -m 8859-2.txt -i 0 -a A4 %sp >RAM:T/temp.pdf *>NIL:
Command AmigaDOS SYS:Apps/Apdf/Apdf RAM:T/temp.pdf
Command AmigaDOS Delete RAM:T/temp.pdf >NIL:
End
Action
Name View with AntiWord
Event Menu
Command AmigaDOS antiword -r -s -m 8859-2.txt %sp *>NIL:
End
End

Hm, where did you get version 0.37? I can find only version 0.36.1... :(

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I dont understand how this filetype can match the file type !

Is it not needed to add a
"match #?.doc" command?

No, it's not needed to add match - msword filetype matching is done by recognition.db (and better than #?.doc).