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Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM

Posted by timothy on from the it-should-be-called-bender dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wine on Android is happening slowly but surely ... Wine is now in a state to be able to run your favorite Windows (x86) game on your Android-powered ARM device, assuming the game is Windows Solitaire. Wine has been making progress on Android to allow simple applications to run on Wine, but they have run into some challenges, as noted in the annual talk at FOSDEM."

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  1. Capt Keen by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Call me back when I ran run my Captain Keen from Floppies!

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    Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
    1. Re:Capt Keen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      After 24 years, poor Billy Blaze deserves a promotion by now!

  2. increasingly inaccurate acronyms by nten · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now WINE *is* an emulator? Thats a tough acronym to sell, recursive or otherwise. I guess really the QEMU package is the emulator, but still.

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    refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
    1. Re:increasingly inaccurate acronyms by AdamColley · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wine Is Now Emulation

      Not so tough -.o