yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Please use the search. Also, RT won't run Android apps.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
.apk is a zip file with dalvik bytecode and application resources. Entirely different from an EXE. Funnily enough apk files only contain android apps, no windows code.

It has been requested numerous times. It cannot be ported.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
Thanks, I changed my mind and found the dark side of me ;)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Ace42:
It would be nice to see more emulators, say ps1 & Ds. Not sure if those would be plausible on the rt.

Sent with Virtue
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I dont recall seeing much mention of DS, but it probably has been if you use the search. Its probably within the RT's limits, just a case of there being an open source emulator core which can be ported to RT.

PS1 was dicussed and I think there were issues with the graphics plugins preventing an RT port.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
Is it possible to get the original Counter Strike to work on RT? You guys did make it happen with Half Life after all.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
No and no. Closed source, Read before posting.

And there's no Half-Life. Maybe something Quake based with map that is recreated.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
There is half life. Because half life was based on the original quake engine it can be coerced into running on it and has been done on android, PSP and also RT.

May just be possible with the original counter strike too as that was just a half life mod.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
No no no. HL engine (GoldSrc) i very heavily modified Quake engine with some Q2 features and also external things. Those 'HL' are just recompiled maps to Quake engine (lacking many things from GoldSrc).

There was even project to recreate GoldSrc based on Q1 code to allow run full HL on it, but Valve did a few things to kill it.

There IS (!) open sourced recreation of GoldSrc that can really run HL and other GoldSrc games, called Xash3D: http://www.moddb.com/engines/xash3d-engine

But still, HL and other GoldSrc games rely on many native x86 libraries.

And calling HL "mod on quake engine" is like calling Team Fortress to be Half Life 2 mod, since they both use the same engine.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
How about you use search before trying to say I am wrong. Its right here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2433607
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
Well, i knew exactly what were you talking about.

I don't want to argue here, just showing that this is NOT the real HL, just map conversion over Quake engine.

Oh,

That means that they are Q1 assets, all HL files were recompiled to use with that engine.

Just checked it. And it's exactly the same I played on WM based PDAs. As lights are compiled into maps, it's easy to see difference when comparing to original box HL.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
I can read fine. Now go be an internet tough guy elsewhere.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Then why did you ask?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Sorry for the long delay without updates! Added a port from new XDA member [MENTION=5159807]acrossland[/MENTION].
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GreatLachlan:
ADB

(I searched for a reply that already had this but couldn't find one.)

We need ADB on this machine, I'm not as smart with software as all of you developers are but it seems possible to me.

Thanks!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
It has been mentioned on several occasions. The answer is no.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Fasin:
This application may have the ugliest icon I have seen in my entire life :D But thanks for the port and your commitment!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Cero92:
Hello, any chance to get Wireshark ported?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Would be an interesting idea. You'd want WinPCap as well, I suspect, but we've developed working drivers before so it's probably possible.

There's a different thread specifically for requests, though, might want to ask around there and see if anybody has looked into it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Cero92:
So it's quite hard I guess. Why does this need additional drivers? I mean, the hardware already works, if it just needs an "interface" between the driver for the hardware and something "standard" in can read, is not enough to compile the driver that already exists?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Windows wont let wireshark go sniffing about under the hood to find out what packets are actually coming and going, a driver can get in there though.

Some drivers do more than allow a piece of hardware to work with windows. Sometimes software needs to use drivers too.

Wireshark is an awesome tool
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Cero92:
Didn't know about that, thanks!

Now it makes sense. So a new driver should be written, I think I can live without that :(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
No need to write a new one, WinPCap (packet capture driver for Windows) already exists. It would need to be ported, though, unless you just wanted to open other people's capture files. Even where an existing driver is available though, porting them can be trickier than porting desktop apps. NT kernel drivers are tricky, and RT removed a lot of legacy driver support because you're not *supposed* to be able to install third-party drivers on it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Cero92:
As far as I understood, it's not so simple to port this driver:

I've read here: http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/winpcap-users/2013-January/004715.html

that this NDIS6 is needed for make something work on RT systems, but WinPCap is still not using it. Correct me if i'm wrong (I hope so).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
That is, I believe, the case. As I said, RT removed a lot of legacy driver support.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] funtikar:
Is it possible to port Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne on the device + play it on LAN ? this is a dealbreaker for me on getting the device(don't get me wrong i'm not a gamer, i just wanted specifically for this game because its kind of a peer pressure lol).. :/... apps quantity are not priority thats why I didn't think on getting android tablet first

sorry for my ignorance, but what I really meant to ask was if it was possible to play it on the RT with some kind of tweaks or tools (maybe I should've posted in Win86emu anyway)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
This one should be very obvious to someone who has read a few posts in this thread.

We can only port open source software, warcraft is the very opposite. You dont even need to know what open source software is other than knowing that if you paid even a single penny or it came from a AAA dev house it most certainly isn't open source and there are almost zero exceptions to that rule.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
Hey mates, just wanted to inform you, that the newest Version of greenshot runs on our RT-device:

Since there is no "print"-key I wanted to Change the hotkey. The new Version brings a lot of new functions.

Just download the latest "No-Installer"-Version here: Greenshot 1.1.7.17 extract it, and delete the "GreenshotOCRPlugin"-Folder from the "Plugins"-Folder.

Cheers

Blade
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] studio37:
Grisbi for 8.1RT

Hi,

can anyome port this app to W8.1RT ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/grisbi/

Thx,

Studio37 ;)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
8.1? Nope. We would need a jailbreak for that OS first, unless somebody wanted to re-write the whole thing as an "immersive" app.

Even 8.0 might be tricky. The code has a lot of GCC-isms in it. It may be possible to convince it to build entirely under MSVC, but I wouldn't count on it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] canisofwar:
The 8.1 jailbreak is making good progress look for the reddit page for more details
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
he knows...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I actually don't follow Reddit, but I am aware of the jailbreak progress in general, yeah.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] yarach:
Rise Of Nation: Thrones And Patriosts

Hello,

i'd like to make a small request if not too difficult.

Why not port Rise of Nations and it's Thrones and Patriots expansion.

It is a great all time classic. And ecen to this date, this game is widely played at LAN parties.

This game would be a great addition.

I am eager to see how this one will work out once someone is going to recompile it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I am eager to see how you would get the source code.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] wed24:
Visual CertExam

Please ... Virtual Certexam 3.4.2., thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
The post right above yours answers this one.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tonystuck:
great new icon! what hotkey are you using? i think hardware key support would be awesome...perhaps vol up+vol down?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] BIade:
With that new version you can set the hotkey to anything you want ;)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Neo_Sk8eR:
Hey guys, would it be possible to port opentyrian?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Maybe. Looking around there is an MSVC project for it and the only dependencies seem to be SDL.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] LolitaPlus:
The link for Python is dead.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Darn, so it is. I'll see if I have a copy I can re-upload. If anybody else does, and can share it publicly, please do so!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] xxFreaKXx:
I have downloaded it over the desktop store a while ago. Heres a .zip of the python folder found "c:/Programm Files (RTDS)"

http://ul.to/wouafsrf

hope it helps
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] siptang:
If somehow, snapseed can be ported, I would really be grateful.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
if somehow, you could find the source, I would be really grateful.

</sarcasm>

No source, no port. Moreso, snapseed was not free and has been discontinued for desktop. Your never going to get the source code so no RT port is possible
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] antys86:
it's possible to recompile or emulate forscan?

http://www.forscan.org/download.html
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
I see they have a plan for "Windows Phone 8 (Bluetooth and WiFi adapters)". It maybe easier to contact them when it finish and ask for Windows RT port. (If the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store don't merge at that time)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] the_nutria:
Doesn't the jailbreak work with Rt 8.1 update 1? It says a registry key is missing... :\

EDIT: sorry wrong topic
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah, if they have a WP8 app then a Windows Store app should be easy. For a port to jailbroken RT though, we'd need the source code. Do you see a link to the source code on there?

Why is this so hard for some people...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] blweldon2:
Is there any possibility of porting over adb to RT? the only issue I can think of is possible adb driver issues. Not 100% positive if we would be able to compile and install the usb drivers. It's worth a shot though, right?

Source code for anyone who wants to look:

https://github.com/android/platform_system_core/tree/master/adb
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Is it possible to use search before posting (you know, the number one rule on the forum)? ADB has been discussed many times before. My (un-checked) recollection is that it doesn't compile under MSVC, though the reason may have been different.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] V DidDy 210:
hey ran a search through this thread to see if it was listed, but any chance popcorn time could get a port?

https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app

the source code is in there if you need it (I'm assuming you would obviously)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] master.peterm:
oh yeah good idea +1
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Doesnt look like it can be built with the microsoft tools so no
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] syn3h:
I believe you can use bitlocker on an external device if you want to hide your porn. Correct me if I'm wrong.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] V DidDy 210:
ahh well that's a shame. thanks for looking tho!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bridgeofstraws:
Does anyone happen to know how to use the libFFI recently posted about in the Windows RT app list thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2092348). Do I need to compile it somehow and add it to the already made Python or do I compile it with Python at the same time? I'm not so good with code I didn't write. =(

I really appreciate any help I get on this. The Foreign Function Interface library would be really useful for a few python scripts including youtube-dl.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jmoney1037:
I am trying to go through the posts, but I am not seeing so far is there a hack for 8.1 to run the x86 programs on it yet? Or is there a place to request programs to be compiled or instructions on how to compile them?

thanks everyone
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
No public jailbreak for 8.1 yet nor did the jailbreak allow x86 programs to run without recompile.

Requests for ports, there was a thread but you're probably fine posting here. But you are going to have to roll your device back to RT 8.0 before being able to use the jailbreak and run them
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Well, the jailbreak did/does allow running the emulation layer, which enables some x86 apps to run (slowly) without recompilation. Once 8.1 is jailbroken, that same hack will *probably* work on it too.

Unfortunately, work on that emulation tool was discontinued. Hopefully it will get picked up again after 8.1 is jailbroken...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
The installer is broken on 8.1, that's as far as I got though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jimmielin:
How does it fail? Does it simply hang or missing components?

We might be able to take a look at it after RT 8.1 has a jailbreak :) Or reimplement it as mamaich said he originally had a better implementation in mind (however I think he didn't tell us about specifics?)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
msiexec refused to load the msi, that's all I got to. My guess is they made it require a different version string, but I haven't looked into it.

That being said, there's really no reason it shouldn't work in 8.1, it just won't work as packaged.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
... and it's easy enough to unpackage an MSI.

I really do hope we can get that project off the ground again, though. There's a lot of good that could come of it, in terms of making ARM tablets viable.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ebildude123:
Is it possible to port PHP?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Prerna:
+1, fantastic idea, anyone please help!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I'm not sure if that even justifies an answer, the answer was on the previous page.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
PHP itself is Visual Studio project, but problem may be with additional libraries. I looked at it some time ago, it has may dependences that I had no time to look at.

And yes, this would be nice as PHP has development server built in.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] phigan:
Putty Tray

Could someone please build one of the versions of Putty Tray? For some reason I remember there being more than just one, but that could have changed. There's also Putty+ which I haven't tried before but is probably just as good. I'm using regular Putty right now, but I'm spoiled by and miss the URL links and the ability to put tunnel connections with no shell in the system tray. Thanks to anyone who has the time/setup to do this in advance.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] euromusic:
So since the Atom editor is open source now, we could try to port it too. Of course that probably means porting Chrome too, kinda. Not sure if it's do-able. Anybody want to give it a shot?

Name: Atom

Sources: https://github.com/Atom/Atom

EDIT:

Windows build instructions here: https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/docs/build-instructions/windows.md
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Ignoring the atom-shell dependancy (major) then it would otherwise work, it builds under MSVC. But atom-shell uses chromium which has not been ported and although isn't impossible to port is rather tricky to, GoodDayToDie has the most experience on that front.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] euromusic:
Well I assume that they only use the parts of chromium that they need, possibly giving less issues. I'm giving it a shot at the moment :)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Various chunks of Chromium built OK, it was just that a few (of the literally hundreds of) Visual Studio projects were being way more trouble than they were worth.

That and you won't get native-speed JavaScript execution unless you can modify the JIT they use to emit THUMB2 instructions...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Geo8:
Hello guys, do you think it is possible to port SDRSharp (SDR#) http://sdrsharp.com/

It is written in C#. The developers package can be found here: http://sdrsharp.com/#plugins

It would be great for the RT guys like me to see this app running :)

Already tried it myself but the howto is confusing and some download links for the lib files are down :C
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] TheExileFox:
Mixxx?

Hey, I saw a pages back; there was a request for Mixxx and I would love to see that.

It's a freeware DJ software and it's great.

See: http://www.mixxx.org/get-involved/#developers
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ikapoy:
Some one can complied Firefox or Google Chrome ?

sorry if this reply was wrong question.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Some one can use search?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] stryfe1986:
Is this for a stock Surface or does it need to be hacked?

I have stock but keep getting error soo. As I try to open it
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kitor:
What exactly you don't understand?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hungdq3:
Could you re-up Unikey. The link was dead. Many thanks.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I'll try to find it when I get home. I don't use it myself but I probably put a copy somewhere.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Gh05tly:
Armagetronad

I would love to see this app recompiled for RT. Here is the link for the site and Sourceforge repository:

Site - http://armagetronad.org/

Repository - http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/

Source code is there for all platforms (Windows, OSX & Linux/Unix)

:cowboy:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The Visual C++ source code is badly outdated, but probably still compatible with, at most, minor tweaks. Most of the game's third-party requirements have already been ported as well. There's some risk of it depending on an obsolete version of DirectX (RT doesn't support old versions), but I'm pretty sure that either won't happen at all or can be worked around.

It probably won't be a trivial port, but it's likely possible. Anybody want to give it a shot?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Globalrebel:
ECUTalk

This is a program that is used to monitor ECU information with your car. It is open source and very popular. (However, I don't know how popular in this community. :)

Here is the information . .

ECUTalk Homepage

They have a PocketPC Version, but I don't think that it matters at all anyway. :)

I'm guessing it can't be done, but I thought I would throw it out there with a $20 return, as I need this for my track car. haha
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] acrossland:
Hopeless, a functional programming language, ported to RT

Hopeless (http://www.hopelog.com/) is a pure functional programming language that is based on

Hope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language)), a small, early functional language.

SETUP:

Unzip the archive into a directory of your choosing. You may want to add that directory to your PATH.

You MUST create a new environment variable, HOPEPATH, that contains the installation directory, as

the runtime needs to load .hop files, and if it can't use HOPEPATH to find those files, it will not

run.

RUNNING:

If you run hopeless without any flags, it will give you a REPL prompt where you can enter Hopeless code

and see the results as you go. Also, you can put a bunch of code together in a file and run it with the

-f flag:

hopeless -f myhopecode.hop

and the code will be loaded and run.

LEARNING:

The Hopeless GitHub repo has some good resources for learning the language:

https://github.com/shaos/hopeless/tree/master/doc. Also, the distribution comes

with a large number of .HOP files that you can peruse for ideas on coding in this

language.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] fparkin:
dc++ client

like see any Dc++ client port over for windows 8.1 rt
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] TheExileFox:
python path issue

File "C:\Program Files (RTDS)\Python_2.7\lib\lib-tk\ttk.py", line 761, in __in
it__
Widget.__init__(self, master, "ttk::frame", kw)
File "C:\Program Files (RTDS)\Python_2.7\lib\lib-tk\ttk.py", line 559, in __in
it__
_load_tile(master)
File "C:\Program Files (RTDS)\Python_2.7\lib\lib-tk\ttk.py", line 47, in _load
_tile
master.tk.eval('package require tile') # TclError may be raised here
_tkinter.TclError: can't find package tile

What's going on here?. the path is correct.

Tested using the last example here: http://zetcode.com/gui/tkinter/introduction/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] snakedm:
XBMC or Kodi

Hello,

Its possible hack XBMC ou Kodi to WIndows Surface RT?

Thanks a lot! =)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
At the top right of the thread view page there's a 'Search this thread' box. Give that a try.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] snakedm:
ty!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tonystuck:
can polipo https://github.com/jech/polipo be ported?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] seaephpea:
GNU Octave

Dear Developers,

I'd really appreciate it if someone could port GNU Octave to Windows RT. It's an open source alternative to MATLAB, and having one or the other is indispensable for many people in science, engineering, economics or finance.

Thanks in advance,

Best regards,

Tom
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] TheExileFox:
Listed version is from 2012, here is a recent version: (( 9.04a ))

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3221171&stc=1&d=1426912901
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] TFGBD:
Hey folks. I set up a Sourceforge page for some of the things I was able to recompile that I found suggested in this thread.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/winportsproject/files/

So far I only have:

nPOPuk email client, InfoZip CLI zip tools and PuTTY but it's steadily growing. Feel free to add them to the list.

I'm also mirroring the binaries found in this thread.

Eventually I plan to add some other things ported to Windows CE on x86 and maybe Alpha and MIPS Windows NT if possible.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] lewonsky:
I need to use a tv tuner . how do I do it?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] CageOff:
Hi!

Dear Developers,

I'd really appreciate it if someone could port Double Commander (file manager aka Total Commander with plugins) to Windows RT.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/doublecmd/files/Double Commander Source/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] lewonsky:
i need tv tuner drivers and prog DVB t work on surface RT? is this possible