On the 5 Apr 2013, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 05/04/13 12:30, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Mike Tomlinson may or may not have written...

En el artículo , John
Rumm escribió:
Looks rather devoid of messages at the moment!

Get posting then. A decent x86 emulator has just come out for it, and
it'll play Doom! What other reason do you need to get a Pi?

Why x86 emulation when you can (or should be able to) run a native build?

probably because a native build wont run on ARM?

There has been a RISC OS port of Doom for five, maybe even ten years.
That runs on ARM. See https://sites.google.com/site/jeffreyadoggett/
for example. There are even ports of Quake, Syndicate and Descent from
http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/leisure/index.html among other people.

Games have been ported from PC (and before that Amiga, ST etc.) to
ARM-powered computers since the late eighties. They've even been
ported the other way round.

What you can actually run on the Pi depends on what OS you're using.
It's possible that a good number of the RISC OS ports will work on the
Pi.

The real question is whether 'ArcElite' will run.

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