Hi,
Wondering if anybody would be interested to port the great classic game Paradroid to our Android platform. If I would be able, I would do it myself, but without programmer know how ... Good thing is that there is already a Linux version available (incl. source code), so this should not be so difficult or?
http://paradroid.sourceforge.net/
For sure you might play it via Frodo C64, but a standalone app is much better.
Anybody?
cu
d_finn
I played Paradroid 90 for the Amiga. I would try it if it were available, but not particularly enough to hold my breath for it. I'm not sure if in all of my Amiga emulation if I already have the Amiga version still.
Hi everyone,
I would like to get an eee pad transformer. However, with my previous laptop, I bought a legal version of MS office 2010, and would be a shame to loose it now.
I could find the files to create a dual boot with ubuntu on that device.
I found on a few topics that qemo could help emulate a x86 system, even on an ARM tablet.
Then I read that wine could enable installing MS designed softwares on Ubuntu.
Do you think following the 3 steps above could let me install Office 2010 on a eee pad transformer?
This would be critical for me to finally decide to buy it.
Thanks a lot for your help
Chris
I doubt it very much, there is a moderately working version of Ubuntu that moderately runs on the TF - but installing WINE and running MS Office, not a hope.
There are a few different versions of Android Office's you can install - none are anything like MS office though
Amazon, today (just a few more hours) has Documents To Go, free. I have been using it for a long while and it is very compatible with Word, Excel and Powerpoint. If that helps.
Thanks for your quick and honest answer. That sounds like a very bad news for me.
Unfortunately I can't go for Android designed office as for business purpose, I often develop some VBA programs, and I strongly doubt those are supported and possibe to edit under those softwares...
Thing is I am really looking for a good Android tablet (avoid Windows at all costs) on which I could use this only MS soft... Any solution could work for me (dual booting, emulation...)
Any idea then?
To be honest I don't think the processors they put in tablets are going to do a great job running a desktop OS (such as ubuntu) AND running emulation on top of it. Wine runs pretty clunky and buggy at best on a desktop processor. I can't imagine it's going to be a wonderful experience on a tablet, especially running Office 2010 or for developing VBA programs. Perhaps in the upcoming iteration of processors you might be able to but we won't know until they're out. Even then, it will probably still be fairly slow and buggy.
Ok so as a conclusion I should rather buy a windows tablet and emulate honeycomb using Android SDK.
Does it give the same experiance as an android tablet?
Any tablet to advise me?
There are rumors that the transformer 2 (Prime) will be able to run Windows 8
But it is only a rumor at this stage, and would be ARM based not x86 anyway
There are a few Windows 7 tablets if you Google for such, but from the video reviews I have seen they are slow and laggy at best
Maybe a touchscreen laptop / netbook would be more suited for your needs
Then when Windows 8 is released you will have the tiled Metro touch interface that is designed for touch.
You can get some touchscreen notebooks that allow swiveling of the screen, so it basically closes with the screen side facing up, giving the feeling of a tablet
Where Polaris Office fails to deliever what you need, I suggest you just switch to a Windows box for MS or Libre Office as needed. You can also use SplashTop (better than VNC IMHO) via MyNet and access your PC from your TF, that should work.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
This last solution gives me hope!! Splashtop could actually solve my issue.
Thanks a lot for your help!
As long as you don't need to track the mouse cursor's movements, SplashTop is very handy but can take getting used to. My own use of it, is mostly web surfing and video that requires a Wintel (e.g. XFinity).
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
I figured out I could connect to a NAS in my company. It is using Windows server 2008. Does it work with splashtop?
chris-france said:
I figured out I could connect to a NAS in my company. It is using Windows server 2008. Does it work with splashtop?
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Just use 2x RDP client its freeand works great for remotedesktop
Some hope for you...
Microsoft is in the process of making their Windows 8 ARM compatible, which is the architecture "mobile" gadgets run on. I will probably find a way to run Windows/ Ice Cream Sandwich dual boot, similar to what I've done in the past on laptops. Windows is your only chance of running Office. That said, the functionality offered by Google Docs, Documents To Go, and other "Lite" Office apps should provide plenty of functionality for you. This is a tablet, not a laptop. It's a great product in it's class, but not a PC replacement. Asus makes the Eee Slate EP121 (played with one, very cool!) if you want a Windows Tablet, but for $1000, it's a product without much demand. Hope this helps.
Hello xda staff i want to know if i can run windows xp/7 games on android
btw ive looked up the net a bit and here what i got
i was searching for running windows xp games on android
first ive came things like ue ur pc as a server (teamwiever kinda) but that requires a waste of energy
and doesnt runs as smooth as we want
then ive looked up a bit more and ive found windows emutors for android [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465365]
but for me and general gamers we dont want to get other windows stuff we want to play games only
+ this method was still not smooth
than ive came up with an app that enables you to run windws 95 apps on android but still not xp [http://www.winulator.com]
than since we know android uses linux ive looked same thing for linux and ive came up with [http://www.winehq.org]
than i looked a version of vinehq on android and ive came up with this
[http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=8230]
than i found a guy that made it (on xda)
[http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258506]
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but im not sure if i can run elder scrolls or age of empires kind games
so can any1 help me on that??
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Hello xda staff i want to know if i can run windows xp/7 games on android
btw ive looked up the net a bit and here what i got
but im not sure if i can run elder scrolls or age of empires kind games
so can any1 help me on that??
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No android cant run these games and it wont be able to do this in a couple of years. Today's hardware is too weak to emulate games made for x86 CPU's. It is possible to port these games to android but it means completely rewriting these games so it will never happen.
At this point in time I know of two apps that may help you, so long as you have a gaming PC capable of running whatever it is you want to run:
Kainy
Splashtop Gamepad THD (Tegra 3 devices only)
I haven't used either of them, so I can't attest as to how well they work or their worth. Neither run the games directly on your device, but streaming is where some believe the mobile gaming industry is headed (including Nvidia with their recently announced Project Shield).
Hello everyone,
I recently lost my phone and i cannot afford a new device at least before two weeks from now, so i borrowed a Galaxy Y Pro Duos from a friend , and i really need to have the ability of testing my game before sending it to the client (i work as a freelancer) i know that with unity i can simply build an Android apk and then just deploy it on real device, but to avoid bad surprises i must test the game before sending it,
I looked everywhere and all the solutions are about converting games built in unity 3.x, but i cannot do that either cause i am using the new 2D feature of unity 4.3 .
So if there a way to make the game compatible with an ARMv6 device OR some magical solution that make me able to test the game on emulators that would be a much more better!!
thank you very much and have a great day.
Hi,
I want to buy a Microsoft Surface 2 with Windows 8.1 RT.
I want to know is a jailbreak is possible for this tablet, to allow me to launch unofficial apps like "the no RT windows".
I also want to know if it's possible to install Android Playstore on it, and if it's possible to watch football stream like on this site on it : http://xn--frstrowsports-39b.eu/
Thanks
OK, first of all (and should be obvious): There's no jailbreak (which is a software mod) to make an ARM processor run x86 code. That's like asking if you anybody has a way to turn an iPad into a MacBook Pro.
Second: There's no (publicly released) jailbreak for RT 8.1 at this time, but if you want to you can downgrade to 8.0 (may take a little work to get it going but is said to be possible) and then use the 8.0 jailbreak. This will let you run code on the Desktop, but the programs still need to either be .NET based or need to be recompiled from x86 (normal Windows CPU architecture) to ARM (mobile device CPU architecture). See the link in my signature.
No, you can't run Android apps on it. Same way you can't run iOS apps on Android or Android apps on iOS, or Mac apps on Windows.
There are lots of apps on the Windows store for streaming sports videos; I don't know about one for that in particular.
Okay, thanks for your help.
Because i have to choose between a Galaxy Note 10,1" and the Surface 2.
But i don't know if the surface is a good choice, because of the market. The market is really poor i think...
So, on this tablet, we are unable to use Google Chrome for exemple ?
Google has not released a version for RT, so you are correct that it won't work.
On the other hand, the Surface has full IE8.1, not just a crippled mobile UI, meaning it can do things like tracking protect/ad-blocking. It also supports (comes with) full Flashplayer, which hasn't been available on Android for years. Don't know if you find that useful.