Play PC games on your Android phone for free using Winlator 2.0 (betanews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/android@lemdro.id

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Anyone following this GitHub project?

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Looks interesting, but looks very early in dev and performance seems suboptimal. I wonder if this will get any traction...

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

I like the idea of this, but I'm struggling to think of x86 games I'd want to play with phone controls. Maybe with a gamepad?

I wouldn't want to play action games with touch controls, and most PC turn-based games use mouse input that's fairly precise and often have small text.

What games would be fun to play this way?

[-] bug@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago

I've wanted to pay FTL on a touchscreen for years

[-] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 11 months ago

so annoying that it is actually available on iOS but here we have to do this kind of janky workaround

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

I've heard good things about iOS apps on Android using Cider as a compatibility layer. Like Wine, but for iOS apps. (Similar to an emulator, but it doesn't try to directly interpret the iOS code, it instead translates iOS system calls to their Android equivalents.)

[-] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago

hmm I can't actually find this project, can you link me?

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I haven't looked myself, I just found it mentioned in a blog post. Searching now, it sounds like it hasn't been updated in 3+ years, so I guess it's dead?

[-] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago

oh that's super neat, hadn't heard of that!

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 3 points 11 months ago

It's definitely aimed at controllers and docked keyboard and mouse.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Really wish this was fully open source. Why are these PC emulators always sketchy?

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe because of the propietary nature of x86 platform and Windows. Publishing x86 compatible stuff for free and with ability to modify can get you trouble.

RISC-V emulators and assembly simulators are more friendly because of that.

[-] Tibert@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not sure where winlator 2.0 is...

I only see version 1.1.

But anyway, looks interesting, but with limited reach.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 5 points 11 months ago

Interestingly, 2.0 was pulled from the GitHub. I wonder why.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Closed source version incoming ?

[-] WagesOf@artemis.camp 0 points 11 months ago

Go to their github to get an invite to their private signal group for support.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the heads up. I'm not seeing a link on the GitHub?

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023

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