Will Altirra run on my Windows 10 Lumia Phone?

[ACML]

Now that Windows 10 is out and it is supposed to be the same on a phone, can I run Altirra on my Lumia Smartphone running Windows 10?

Edited September 6, 2015 by ACML

[emkay]

If it's written on Windows Runtime, it could run. I guess, it's x86 code, so it will only run on "Intel" and not on ARM based devices.

[phaeron]

Nope, sorry. Windows Mobile 10 only runs Metro/Modern/Universal apps, and I have no interest in making a "Universal" app version.

[ACML]

Nope, sorry. Windows Mobile 10 only runs Metro/Modern/Universal apps, and I have no interest in making a "Universal" app version.

Sounds like a lot of the Widows 10 hype is misleading. They make it sound like a Windows 10 phone can run x86 apps.

[phaeron]

"x86 app" might be true if you had a Windows Mobile 10 phone that had an x86 CPU. That still wouldn't help because "app" still means the restricted Metro/Modern/Universal app model and not Win32 programs.

 

People make a big deal about ARM vs. x86, but it really isn't. Porting code from x86 to ARM isn't usually that big of a deal, especially if the code already compiles for x64. Once Windows RT had been jailbroken to run Win32 programs, several popular programs got recompiled for Win32/ARM within days. The real problem is the system/UI layers, which usually need to be rewritten from scratch for a different platform. For a Universal app, that would be C++/CX and XAML. Microsoft likes to be intentionally confusing about the difference between a Universal app and traditional desktop/Win32 programs, but there are enough differences that it essentially needs to be treated as a different platform.

 

I also have a dislike of the "Universal app" platform because it is part of the same push that keeps regressing the Windows UI, which I would rather not support.