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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. STOP REDIRECTING DAMMIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dammit, Dice, I thought you said you heard us. I don't want to use beta, stop redirecting me there PLEASE. I didn't want to do the stupid boycott thing, but when I came into work this morning and found myself on Beta... well, I think I'll just leave.

  2. Re:Capt Keen by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's Commander Keen to you! (And, incidentally, on an Android device with USB OTG and a copy of DOSbox, you should be only a USB floppy drive away from doing that right now...)

  3. Video of talk is available: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://video.fosdem.org/2014/AW1120/Sunday/Wine_on_Android.webm

  4. N900 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This was already done on the N900 (ARM!) using qemu, and it even had acceptable performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3v4YC9RT-g