Alright... so I have dosbox.

I jumped through the hoops: downloaded, unpacked, moved, chmod'd, added ArnimS repository manually, got libsdl_net, red pill'd, got xkbd.

Then I dug out my old archives and copied the greatest PC game in the history of the world onto my device. (and then hunted around for the 1.4 patch, because apparently I didn't archive that. d'oh!)

Then I whittled my way through the dosbox conf settings, looking for what works and what doesn't.

And in the end, I was this close.
I nearly had XCom (zomg!) running acceptably on the n800 under dosbox.
(it's slow, but speed isn't that necessary for XCom - and I'm keeping my eye on the unlocked CPU speed with OS 2008)

But this mouse thing is killing me. The pointer doesn't follow the stylus properly. In my case the pointer winds up offset below and to the left. Further, whenever it passes over a clickable section of the game interface, it seems to 'stick' about half the time. (interface button stays depressed, pointer disappears altogether, no stylus movement does anything - except removing the stylus from the screen, which completes the 'click'.)

In short: does anyone have any sort of insight, fix or hack to sort out this mouse problem? For the love of all that's XCom - help me out guys.