TinyPC 386: DOS for Foldables

Half-fold your phone and stand it on the table: the top half becomes the screen of an early-90s 386 laptop, the bottom half its keyboard and touchpad.

TinyPC 386 is made for foldable phones. The app follows the hinge in real time: the DOS screen sits above the fold and the keyboard below it, on book-style and flip-style foldables alike. On a regular phone, the screen simply takes the top half. Tested on Samsung Galaxy Z Fold.

★ A REAL PC, NOT A LOOK-ALIKE
• A real BIOS (SeaBIOS) boots a real IDE hard disk
• FreeDOS, a free MS-DOS compatible DOS, comes preinstalled
• Emulated x86 CPU: DOS programs in real mode and 32-bit protected mode
• VGA graphics, Sound Blaster 16, PS/2 mouse, floppy and CD-ROM drives
• XMS and EMS memory, boot menu, mouse driver, EDIT, UNZIP and more

★ YOUR ANDROID FILES BECOME DRIVE C:
• Drive C: is a folder you can see in the Android Files app
• Drop your DOS programs and games there (.EXE, .COM, .BAT or .ZIP), restart, done
• Whatever DOS writes (saves, new files) is copied back to Android automatically
• Files deleted in DOS go to a trash folder, never destroyed
• Floppy images (.img) in A: and CD images (.iso) in D:

★ A 386 LAPTOP KEYBOARD
• Full PC keyboard: Esc, F1 to F12, Ctrl, Alt, Fn, inverted-T arrows
• Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Fn latch with a single tap
• Haptics and a rubber-dome key click
• Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights wired to the BIOS
• Touchpad with two buttons: tap to click, tap and slide to drag
• Works with Bluetooth keyboards and mice, borderless full screen mode

★ THE PERIOD LOOK
• Light gray or charcoal case
• VGA color, mono LCD or amber plasma display
• BIOS-style SETUP menu, in English or French

★ PRIVACY
No ads, no Internet access, no data collected. Your files stay on your phone.

TinyPC 386 includes no games or commercial software: bring your own programs, free software or shareware.

Free software inside: v86 (BSD license), SeaBIOS (LGPL) and FreeDOS (GPL). Their sources ship with the app: SETUP → About → Copy sources.