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Android on your PC

HerculesHercules
edited September 2011 in Chit chat
http://WWW.Android-x86.org

Anyone tried it? Seems to support my EEE PC, with the exception of touchscreen support, although I assume the mouse you can use instead.

Going to burn a live CD tonight, and if all goes well I'm going to repartition my drive and install it.
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited September 2011
    I might give that a go. I've only been using Android for 3 days since I got my new tablet and I'm really liking the Android OS. It's super-fast, I can be browsing (as long as I put the tablet into Deep Sleep) within 5 seconds of turning on!

    I downloaded a Speccy emulator from the Market (Marvin?) and it's pretty good. Love the way it pulls files from WOS FTP!
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited September 2011
    Yes, it works fine as long as you have supported hardware. Had it on my Eee pc for months.

    To be honest, android doesn't feel very nice to use without a touch screen and the lack of marketplace app means you have to hunt around for apks to install. It's an impressive achievement and a fun thing to muck about with though.

    It won't run any of the current crop of Android speccy emulators though, as they all have native ARM code in their Z80 cores. I was thinking of knocking together a dalvik-based emulator myself but haven't quite got around to it yet.
  • HerculesHercules
    edited September 2011
    ccowley wrote: »
    Yes, it works fine as long as you have supported hardware. Had it on my Eee pc for months.

    Burnt the ISO onto a CD this evening. I'm really impressed!
    ccowley wrote: »
    To be honest, android doesn't feel very nice to use without a touch screen and the lack of marketplace app means you have to hunt around for apks to install. It's an impressive achievement and a fun thing to muck about with though.

    Hopefully the Android Market app gets converted soon over to it... I remember a similar problem on the zt180 android tablet - the early firmwares never had the Android market added, you had to add it yourself. That was until they included it in a future firmware update. Hopefully the same thing will occur with Android x86...
    ccowley wrote: »
    It won't run any of the current crop of Android speccy emulators though, as they all have native ARM code in their Z80 cores. I was thinking of knocking together a dalvik-based emulator myself but haven't quite got around to it yet.

    That's a shame; their a little task for your next project then... I'll be happy to become a beta tester if you need one :)
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2011
    I've just been looking at a 2nd hand net book that's pre-loaded (dual booting) with Windows 7 and an Android OS. I'm in two minds about picking it up or not. A quick look shows that it may have a touch screen too.
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