CodeWeavers To Release CrossOver For Android To Run Windows Programs

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 5, 2015 @07:58AM from the playing-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For the better part of three years there has been talk about running Wine on Android to bring Windows x86 programs to Android phones/tablets, and it's going to become a reality. CodeWeavers is planning to release CrossOver For Android before the end of the year. This will allow native Windows binaries to run on Android, but will be limited to Android-x86 due to struggles in emulating x86 Windows code on ARM. The tech preview will be free and once published the open-source patches will be published for Wine.

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Re:WARNING: --- Codewavers == Wine by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-05 08:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

Not a problem here. I've tried CrossOver on and off for a few years now; it's still shite.
Honestly, I've had better luck using WINE for free. God only knows what Codeweavers have done that warrants a not-free fork of an admirable FOSS project.