SunVox on a Jornada 820? Any Way to Debug?

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SunVox on a Jornada 820? Any Way to Debug?

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Hiya, I've recently picked up a slightly busted-up but working Jornada 820 and I'm trying to get SunVox working on it (like I've done with the Jornada 720 in the past), but I'm getting no where and can't figure out what to do or what's going wrong :( :(

I can install the SunVox cab file, but when I try and run it I always get the message that says "Cannot find 'sunvox_full' (or one of it's components)...". I have put an aygshell.dll file I found online in the SunVox directory (but I don't now if it's the correct aygshell.dll file???) and I put a GX.DLL file in the /Windows directory (which should do the Gapi bit) and I've got a sunvox_config.txt file in the SunVox directory, but so far I can't get SunVox to work.

Does anyone know if there's anyway to debug it? Some way to get it to say what it can't find when I try to run it?

The 820 does not have a headphone socket, just a speaker, but as the one I have is quite busted-up I plan to wire in a headphone jack from the speaker wires.
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What version of Windows CE is installed on this device? It may be too old to run SunVox, but I'm not sure...
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Hi NightRadio. I really appreciate your reply.

The Jornada 820 runs Windows CE Handheld PC Edition Version 3.0, Core System Version 2.11, Build 8262.

You mention the 820 in this thread from about 5 years ago, so I hoped you might have some familiarity with it:
https://warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 820#p18888
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Also, I just wanted to say thanks, as you've always been really helpful when I've found some old potato of a portable computer that I want to run SunVox on, like the Sharp Netwalker and things like that. I've been using SunVox since 2011 and I love using in on interesting old devices, like the Panasonic CF-U1:
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Hi NightRadio. Don't worry about this request. Sorry. The Jornada 820 is in pretty bad shape structurally and is going to take quite a bit of work to put right, plus I think it might be a bit too under-powered to really do anything meaningful in SunVox. It has half the ram/rom of the 720 and a less powerful processor, plus I'll need to fit a headphone socket in it somehow. I think this project is probably not worth it!
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teamoth wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:35 pm The Jornada 820 runs Windows CE Handheld PC Edition Version 3.0, Core System Version 2.11, Build 8262.
Thank you!
As far as I could find, here are the minimum requirements for SunVox under WinCE:

WinCE 2.0
CPU architecture: ARMv4

Required DLLs:
gx.dll (only for default videodriver (gapi) - see sunvox_config.ini)
aygshell.dll
ceshell.dll
coredll.dll

Maybe ceshell/coredll is missing or outdated, but I'm not sure because these are most likely the core libraries of the system...
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Hi NightRadio. I appreciate you looking into this. I'll try and have another go at this soon and see if I can get hold of ceshell.dll and coredll.dll, if they are not already part of the system. Thanks!
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