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If Android gains traction on x86-based tablets and other mobile devices, CodeWeavers has a lot of commercial opportunities for pushing the running of Windows so

If Android gains traction on x86-based tablets and other mobile devices, CodeWeavers has a lot of commercial opportunities for pushing the running of Windows software on Android. I honestly don't see how there would be that much of a market. Any native Android implementation of a particular program will be much nicer to use than a Wine emulated program. Really the only use I have ever found for Wine and other emulation programs is for running Windows games on other platforms and usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games.

GigabyteCoin 14y ago
SkiFree would actually be pretty fun on an Android.
- brokenparser 14y ago
  Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kudzu.plant.skifree https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kudzu.plan...
- yareally 14y ago
  DOSbox has been out for Android for quite some time. Takes a little configuring, but it works. I've seen people running windows 3.1 and win 95 on Android as well. http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/ http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325643 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325643
polshaw 14y ago
>running Windows games on other platforms and usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games IME this is out-of-date.. I run PES 2013 with wine. (I haven't tried many other games, but quite a few are compatible). I have to run it on one setting lower, other than that its almost identical to running it on windows, wine is impressive these days. I agree it would be quite limited with ARM, although there are x86 phones.
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  This is very much a YMMV thing. Some things work an order of magnitude better than others under wine. I've also had things which have worked fine under wine get an update, or I've updated something else on my system and then all of a sudden it completely breaks.
TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
>Wine and other emulation programs Wine isn't an emulator (it's in the name!), it's a compatibility layer. >usually the performance is too poor or unreliable Nonsense. Wine being a compatibility layer means that, while some apps are quite a bit slower, performance is generally good.
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Zigurd 14y ago
In prinicple, anything worth having is worth having in a Android-native touch-optimized implementation. But... There is a lot of software, especially on a formerly hegemonic platform like Windows with a decades-long history, that will never get ported or functionally recreated. Most of it deservedly so, but some some of it is going to be valuable enough to enough people that a compatibility system will be just the right thing because a reimplementation would take too long and/or cost too much.
mkl 14y ago
usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games. This is far from universally true - in my experience it is actually slightly backwards. A few years ago I had to benchmark a Windows program against a Linux one I had written, and the Windows program ran slightly faster under WINE than under Windows. (This was mostly computational, without much use of Windows APIs, and no graphics in the timed sections.)

GigabyteCoin 14y ago

SkiFree would actually be pretty fun on an Android.

brokenparser 14y ago
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kudzu.plant.skifree https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kudzu.plan...
yareally 14y ago
DOSbox has been out for Android for quite some time. Takes a little configuring, but it works. I've seen people running windows 3.1 and win 95 on Android as well. http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/ http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325643 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1325643

polshaw 14y ago

>running Windows games on other platforms and usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games IME this is out-of-date.. I run PES 2013 with wine. (I haven't tried many other games, but quite a few are compatible). I have to run it on one setting lower, other than that its almost identical to running it on windows, wine is impressive these days. I agree it would be quite limited with ARM, although there are x86 phones.

jiggy2011 14y ago
This is very much a YMMV thing. Some things work an order of magnitude better than others under wine. I've also had things which have worked fine under wine get an update, or I've updated something else on my system and then all of a sudden it completely breaks.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago

>Wine and other emulation programs Wine isn't an emulator (it's in the name!), it's a compatibility layer. >usually the performance is too poor or unreliable Nonsense. Wine being a compatibility layer means that, while some apps are quite a bit slower, performance is generally good.

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Zigurd 14y ago

In prinicple, anything worth having is worth having in a Android-native touch-optimized implementation. But... There is a lot of software, especially on a formerly hegemonic platform like Windows with a decades-long history, that will never get ported or functionally recreated. Most of it deservedly so, but some some of it is going to be valuable enough to enough people that a compatibility system will be just the right thing because a reimplementation would take too long and/or cost too much.

mkl 14y ago

usually the performance is too poor or unreliable except in the case of very old games. This is far from universally true - in my experience it is actually slightly backwards. A few years ago I had to benchmark a Windows program against a Linux one I had written, and the Windows program ran slightly faster under WINE than under Windows. (This was mostly computational, without much use of Windows APIs, and no graphics in the timed sections.)