Hello!

I am about to buy an n900 and i have a few questions

Does the touch screen mouse in DOSBox work well yet?

How well does Theme Hospital work under DOS?

OpenRA, does it run well and is it playable?

what do you reccomend as the first things to install to make the phone a better exprerience?

Thanks,
Paul

fMMS as you can't send MMS straight out of the box
rootsh for root access
Tweakr so you can edit various options and save more profiles than the standard 2
Petrovich for easy media sharing to fb, flickr etc
FMboost to boost power output of FMtransmitter
gPodder and Pannuci for downloading and managing podcasts
Mediabox as it's better than the built in player
Conky so you can look at rootfs (and aviod filling it!) and other system info
Autodisconnect to manage connection disconnects and save battery
BatteryGraph (or Battery Eye) to help see how efficent your battery is...

That's my list at the moment - I'm sure others will offer different opionions....

Cellular Modem Buttons - Allows you to turn on/off the GSM radio at will to save battery.
AdBlock Plus - disables ads, which could take away loading times on websites.

You can run Windows 95 on DOSbox, so I'd assume the mouse works fine.

OpenRA is still in development, try searching the forums for more information.

Thanks for your help

when i plug my n900 into USB, do i see whe whole file system or just mydocs? how would i go about accessing RootFS via usb? is it possible?

No, you don't see the whole file system via USB (or at least I don't). For that I found the OpenSSH Server works very well with a GUI-based SSH Client on my Mac (Cyberduck)

It only shows MyDocs when you plug it in.

You could access the rest of the filesystem via Terminal or PCMan File Manager on Easy Debian. (both on the N900 itself)

Accessing rootfs is not possible by default via usb. Again, however, it is possible to find using PCMFM on Easy Debian.

The N900 only mounts MyDocs to the computer when it's plugged in, but I'm not sure if there's a hack around that.

Edit: kjmackey beat me to an answer, and yeah, using SSH with a GUI is another way.

Define 'well'. It's never going to work reliably for any game without some time of manual adjusting, and might even be impossible depending on the game.

Being a Win95-era game, I wouldn't even try it. You might have more luck with CorsixTH, but as it is now...

OK thanks, anybody know a good screen protector for n900? one that preserves the feel of the screen as much as possible??

zaggy.... mate from work has one. it does make phone screen a bit sticky tho. personally i just use a sock case. although. if i hold my phone at the right angle and get the sun on it i can see slight marks on my screen. only had it two weeks. imagine that after a year or 2..... does anyone feel that they have something stuck on the end of the stylus sometimes?

Yes, that is dust and it causes the very fine scratches some people are complaining about. A screen protector is really ideal, since in the worst case scenario it can be easily replaced.