Posted on 10/07/2014 9:29:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Any time a new device hits the market, it’s always fascinating to see how tech-savvy developers, designers and hobbyists will tinker with it to push it to its limits. Web developer Corbin Davenport has received some attention over the last week for getting both Minecraft Pocket Edition and the original PC FPS Doom to run on Android Wear, but those were just warm-ups for the most impressive feat of all — running Windows 95 on a Samsung Gear Live.
Unsurprisingly, it’s not a flawless implementation, but using the aDosBox application from the Google Play store, Davenport manages to put a Windows desktop on his smartwatch. aDosBox is one of the more basic emulators on Google Play, but Davenport notes that faster emulators don’t seem to work on Android Wear. That’s why everything is running so slowly on the Gear Live.
If you are considering following this descent into madness, keep in mind that Davenport hasn’t actually been able to open any applications from the desktop view. Windows 95 runs out of RAM almost instantaneously and aDosBox doesn’t allow users to add any additional RAM.
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What an enormous leap forward.
Whoopee. Nothing runs. It hasn’t enough memory to run any apps . . . including minimal memory stuff. You get to look at the screen.
Of course, it’s not how well the dancing bear dances, it’s that the bear dances at all!
I'm sure there will be a vast market for this.
Any day now...
There’s a WinXP app for Android out there. This is nothing new, AFAICT.
ping
The ‘wow’ factor of technology escapes me with this device.
I owned a very early wrist transistor, that’s right, transistor, radio, that received monophonic AM and FM stations, with the earpiece, yes, I said earpiece, as the FM antenna. It was powered by first-generation hearing aid batteries. I wore out the strap to where it broke, causing a catastrophic failure of the radio.
So, technology, no matter the ‘wow’, is not indestructible. How many of y’all won’t admit to dropping that many-dollared-wonderphone, on pavement, on the office floor, or down ‘that watery receptacle’?
I used to have one of those Timex pager watches. It was pretty cool!
dear frog,
The ‘timex’ came after the radio I had! This was BEFORE a pager was ever used.
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