yushir
05-15-2014, 01:09 AM
As I didn't find this question on this forums, I propose this thread for it (please indicate me if it's again the rules or it has been asked somewhere else, then I'll gladly remove it).
Has there been consideration on a port to Windows Phone? I know the market share is not as big as a port to IOS, but there are die hard users from WP who might be willing to help on with this.
As far as I am concerned, there might be two big difficulties on the port, one of which is already present on a emulator of PS1 for windows phone (EMIPSX).
- Lack of JIT support for Windows Phone. WP is a restricted environment and lacks the support (apparently) for JIT code to be executed. Altough, some workarounds are available for this (TouchDevelop for instance, allowing execution of scripts on the fly). -> This is the biggest problem. https://www.touchdevelop.com/
- Lack of support for OpenGL ES 3.0 on the phone (this is quite obvious). There is, though, a safemaker for this called ANGLE Project, which is set on the next builds to merge the support for it. https://github.com/stammen/angleproject
Any comment from the moderators/developers? If you already had a look into it and discarded it, I'd be glad to hear the reasons.
PD: For the JIT, there might be the possibility to create a request on UserVoice. As far as I know, Microsoft is quite keen to implement the features rated highest on their uservoice.
Has there been consideration on a port to Windows Phone? I know the market share is not as big as a port to IOS, but there are die hard users from WP who might be willing to help on with this.
As far as I am concerned, there might be two big difficulties on the port, one of which is already present on a emulator of PS1 for windows phone (EMIPSX).
- Lack of JIT support for Windows Phone. WP is a restricted environment and lacks the support (apparently) for JIT code to be executed. Altough, some workarounds are available for this (TouchDevelop for instance, allowing execution of scripts on the fly). -> This is the biggest problem. https://www.touchdevelop.com/
- Lack of support for OpenGL ES 3.0 on the phone (this is quite obvious). There is, though, a safemaker for this called ANGLE Project, which is set on the next builds to merge the support for it. https://github.com/stammen/angleproject
Any comment from the moderators/developers? If you already had a look into it and discarded it, I'd be glad to hear the reasons.
PD: For the JIT, there might be the possibility to create a request on UserVoice. As far as I know, Microsoft is quite keen to implement the features rated highest on their uservoice.