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Windows 8 on ARM-Architecture
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Kontalaa
New Eden Trading Association
#1 - 2012-12-17 19:15:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Kontalaa
Hi!

I would like to know if there is a EVE-Version planned for Windows 8 on ARM-Architecture (Tablets and so on).

As a Linux-User i could then use Wine (arm) with Win8-Settings to run EVE on my Smartphone - which would just be awesome :D

So in short: Is such a thing planned or is Windows8-ARM-Support way out of the possible reach and you just try to support Win8-i386 and Win8-amd64?

Thanks!

edit: the version of windows i meant was "Windows RT" (as Microsoft calls it).
Mexan Caderu
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-12-18 07:04:45 UTC
I doubt it, ARM architecture uses more limited instruction set, thus squeezing eve onto it will mean a re-write of the client from scratch...which I doubt ccp is able to do given the potential low install base (i.e.: effort:reward not enuff)
Kontalaa
New Eden Trading Association
#3 - 2012-12-18 10:10:17 UTC
well.. normally you are done with recompiling stuff for the target-architecture - even with a limited instruction-set it should be turing-complete. It may be slower because of that, but the voodoo-magic of the gcc shall not be doubted! :D

Problems arise if you have ASM-Code in some of your libs (Carbon-Engine, linked libs, ..) as these need to be ported manually.