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Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-something-back-not-always-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Microsoft has released their device emulator for Windows CE under a shared source license making it available to experimentation and teaching. From the article: 'The Device Emulator can be built as a standalone Windows application, or as the default emulator within Visual Studio 2005 running under the Device Emulator Manager, according to Microsoft. A 473 KB compressed file containing the Device Emulator shared source code is available for download' on the Microsoft site."

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  1. Dupe by casings · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 7/17/1838240

    was posted by timothy....

  2. Re:Not bad... by badfish99 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, the license doesn't seem to allow you to use it at all, unless you happen to be attending a school or university. For example, you can't use it if you are just a hobbyist.

    Of course this fits in with Bill Gates' known views that hobbyists should pay for commercial software

    The strategy is to get them hooked at school, and then make them pay for the rest of their lives.

  3. Re:Not bad... by Da_Blitz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dont forget Qemu emulates many platforms now including ARM

    QEMU version 0.8.0 is out (Changelog).

    * Support for ARM Integrator/CP board system emulation.
    * Support for MIPS R4K system emulation.

    http://www.qemu.com/

  4. Re:bugs by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Informative

    Care to list the "bugs" you have run into? I develop for Windows CE as a hobby. I run into boat loads of limitations that are frustrating, but nothing in the way of bugs.

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  5. Re:DREAMCAST! by Svartalf · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. This is because while it was capable of running CE, most of the machines out there didn't use it because of licensing and difficulty of use issues. They did like they always did with a console- they programmed to the bare metal. It's also worth noting that you'd
    have to come up with an SH4 emulator as this is for ARM/XScale versions of CE only, along with some way of emulating the behavior of a PowerVR chip because they didn't come up with DirectX for CE (It's part of the reason they use Embedded XP in the X-Box...).

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