yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hgsz:
Great app

Great app! I only tried avi files. Does it support .mkv files? Would be awesome to add subtitles support like .srt too.

Portuguese Windows Store doesnt have one single aplication (not even a paid one) to play mkv files. What the hell!?

Other stores have many choices, free and paid :(

Keep the good work
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] sh_mohanna:
cheat engin

Can you please port cheat engine application on Windows RT? It is an pen source

Website http://www.cheatengine.org/aboutce.php
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Its all pascal. There isnt a pascal compiler for RT to my knowledge.

Even if there was, I doubt cheat engine would work scanning ARM binaries anyway.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] sh_mohanna:
I have tested it on windows 8 and it can scan Windows RT binaries perfectly, I was able to cheat Gun4higher game easily. But anyway as you said it looks like it won't bet ported to windows RT.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Please note that WinRT != Windows RT.

You were scanning a WinRT binary, which is a binary that uses the Windows Runtime (Metro, basically). Windows RT apps would have to be compiled for ARM, and they very likely wouldn't be compatible with Cheat Engine.

WinRT = Windows Runtime (Main API in Metro)

Windows RT = Windows on ARM (Surface RT, etc.. OS)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
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[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jtg007:
I came across this the other day and found it interesting.

WinKexec

http://https://www.jstump.com/projects/kexec/wiki

Basically a kexec port wrapped up as a Windows driver. Since we have kernel mode driver access with the last Jailbreak, and since this is open-sourced, would it be possible to port this over and actually get Linux running?

Because that would be a much higher, grander, bolder, and more honorable goal than fiddling with arcade emulators. :rolleyes:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Heh. Very cool (and interesting, in that several people were already discussing creating something like this). I suggest creating a new thread for it, though; even though it does involve porting Windows x86 code to RT, it's not really in keeping with the theme of this thread.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Quake 3 - finally

enjoy - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2315123
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Coolplayer - mp3 player

enjoy - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2318000
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
I too want a USB driver for switches/routers
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Find a USB->Serial adapter that has open source Windows drivers (and is reasonably priced) and I'll see if I can make it happen. I want one, too, but finding open source Windows drivers is near impossible.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/

For FTDI chips. Aka, 3.3v or 5v (dependant on model) TTL serial with reset and DTR lines. Can then get adaptors to shift that to a standard RS232 port, think there are even a few FTDI models broken out as a standard RS232.

There are also drivers for the PL2303 chip but they are OSX or linux, I havent seen a windows PL2303 open source driver.

FTDI and PL2303 cables can be had cheaply on ebay or amazon.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
Running the jailbreak, which works because I ran putty.

I want to run the Classic Start Menu, but when I double click, nothing happens.

It is still in my download folder, where I start it.

Looked at the processes and classic start menu is loaded and running in the background, but not showing on the left side task bar.

Am I missing something.?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
You have to restart Explorer after launching CSM. I should probably add that to the description, though it is posted elsewhere (i.e. you could have found it by searching).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Open source Linux drivers != open source Windows drivers. Recompiling a driver for ARM would be trivial, rewriting a driver from Linux sources (likely) wouldn't be.

PL2303 would be my adapter of choice, though, I have two of them already.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
libftdi cited windows compatibility but I think uses gnu tools to compile. Also relies on libusb.

In RT at present can you open the Bluetooth settings and assign a Bluetooth adaptor a COM port as you can on windows 8?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
It actually looks to be compatible with MSVC, now that I look more into it. I /think/ my CuBox might have an FTDI adapter in it (I can't remember which revision I have), if it does I'll poke at it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
Would someone port Tera Term, it is like putty only better screen presentation and more options.

http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/index.html.en
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] empryal:
It would be cool if someone could work out the Vassal Engine, I don't have the coding know how or I would try it myself, the only difficulty I would for see is the reliance on Java.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
We only have IKVM on windows RT. No official JVM. Many 3rd party libraries (including almost all graphics ones) do not run under IKVM. I havent looked into vassal too much but if it relies on any library requiring any native code (which includes a few standard java libs too actually) then it probably wont run.

Otherwise, no porting would be required. You can just launch the .jar with IKVM.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Not to mention that IKVM is slow beyond use, especially for rendering. There was a photo editor jar I played with and it took seconds to render an image, there's no way it could handle rendering a world real time.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
Anyone able to get IP Messenger to load and run.

When it is double clicked, no window pops up. Shows it running in task manager.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] empryal:
It requires Java Runtime Environment 5 or higher. Which is where I see the difficulty.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] marcox92:
Any idea to port VLC reader

Very usefull application specially to have "boxtv" on Surface RT
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Search first next time. VLC has been discussed a bunch.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
Goodday

Sorry can you explain what you mean when you say restart explorer.

Just having a learning issue here. do you mean in the task manager. if so what is the app, because explorer is not listed.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=958016]StarLog[/MENTION]: For IPMsgr: Check the system tray? I tested it out months ago, and it did work.

For ClassicStartMenu: restart the Windows Explorer shell, process image name explorer.exe. I guarantee you that it's in Task Manager. I can also tell you how to do it from the command prompt if you'd like:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer.exe
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] StarLog:
Excellent advise, that worked, did a restart, because taskkill was not recognized.

maybe I needed to go to system32 and run it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
\Windows\System32 is in the PATH environment variable by default, so it should ahve worked, but it sounds like you get things to work out anyhow. Glad to hear it.

It may be worth modifying the RT version of CSM to automatically restart Explorer when it's launched. That wouldn't be hard to do.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bartekxyz:
I have working PlayStation emulator but with pad plugin that relies on xinput and supports only Xbox 360 controllers(no keyboard). Because we don't have dinput in Windows RT and 90% of plugins that support also keyboard requires it I won't publish it as in current stare this emu is useless.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
How's the speed of it? Are you using anything to execute the ARM code on hardware (PSX was ARM, right?), or are you just straight up emulating everything?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bartekxyz:
PSX was MIPS, not ARM. By "I have working PlayStation emulator" I meant "I have ported a PlayStation emulator" :) Code was full of inline assembly(x86), especially the part responsible for R3000 CPU emulation but everything is written in a way that let's you use c++ equivalents in that parts which I naturally used. Speed is slower than I expected, games which push a lot of polygons struggle a bit(20-60fps), games which use prerendered backgrounds with polygonal characters on top(Resident Evil, Final Fantasy series etc. run ok most of the time, pure 2d games should run just fine. Too bad I can't find any decent pad plugin as everything relies on dinput.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
have you tried the nuvee plugin?it supports raw input which works on Windows Rt.http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Nuvee-PS1-PS2-input-plugin-supporting-lightguns-by-Shalma
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Synergy 1.4.12 beta - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2134094

Qt4 library - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2339014

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Snes9x

Snes9x - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2339228

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
can anyone port reactos dlls?I have heard that reactos can be build on msvc now but I am not able to do that.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
FileZilla and Winmerge

Two of my fav tools:

FileZilla - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2340616

WinMerge - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2340560

Enjoy!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Myriachan:
In order to do what?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
for missing dll on windows rt such as dinput.dll
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Reactos DInput.dll is too limited and too reactos-specific to be useful. I've tried to use it in my emulator, so I know what I'm talking about. The same with lots of other DLLs - remember that ReactOs is too far from being a complete Windows replacement.

For my emulator I've just rewrote the needed interfaces myself - nothing too difficult, but my code is not universal (and not complete yet).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Myriachan:
I might try looking into porting Firefox. It has a couple advantages over Chrome that would make it easier to port, I think.

Firefox uses exactly one DLL that doesn't exist for Windows RT: D3DCompiler_43.dll. But Windows RT has D3DCompiler_47.dll. =)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=5118143]Myriachan[/MENTION]: Please, go right ahead! I looked at Firefox a bit myself, but didn't really compare the expected difficulty of porting one vs. the other.

You can probably turn off the hardware accelerated stuff if need be. I've been looking for Chrome features that I could pare back, such as the NaCl.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
I had thunderbird compiling with a number of nasty hacks, but I never managed to get it to actually work. I eventually gave up after putting some 30+ hours into it with no real results.

I'd post it, but sadly the external I had it on bit the dust. Took a fully functioning port of Mumble and pretty much the rest of my non-jailbreak related ARM development with it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] AcerExtensa:
Have anyone looked at OpenHoMM?(Open Source Heroes of Might and Magic project)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Wolf: Enemy Territory

Ported this, but it doesn't run fast enough to be playable. Decided against a wider post.

Can find it on github.

https://github.com/bfosterjr/windowsrtdev/tree/master/apps/WolfET/bin

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Odd that it's too slow; the tablet should be powerful enough. It might be worth profiling the code to try and find anything that is particularly slow on RT. I'm guessing it's in the graphics, of course, but it's worth investigating.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] ffsbro:
Is anyone going to port MPC-HC? Would love to play mkv files on my Surface, unless someone already knows a way?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
MPC has already been discussed, use the search feature.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Decided to give this a try. Many hours later I've managed to tweak the rendering code to reduce the fog passes. Gave me a good performance boost but it's still not enough. The hot spots are still in the render paths and because we don't have a full hardware based OpenGL solution on Windows RT its hard to figure out the best way to keep tweaking this.

Gonna move on from this for now. Burned far to many hours trying to learn how to optimize rendering code that isn't mine - O_o

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Wow, nicely done! Yeah, I didn't actually expect you to optimize it into full performance, I was just curious if there was something egregiously slow that could be easily fixed. Sounds like you wrote a pretty good patch for it anyhow. I'll try it out (I assume the optimized version is on github now?) and see if it's as unplayable as you claim. :)

It would be really nice to have native OpenGL support... well, and support for third-party desktop apps, of course. Bloody awful decisions on Microsoft's part.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
The OpenSSL has double. 2 line in Apps which have been recompiled and 2 line in Native-ported libraries (mostly for developers/porters)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Anyone have any idea what would be involved in an open office port? Was just a random thought that occurred to me.

I'm not specifically asking for someone to do it as I dont own a device and honestly can't see the point in open office on a system which comes preinstalled with microsoft office. Was just a thought I had.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
OpenOffice's codebase is a hoary mess. Even if it builds under MSVC, porting it would likely be a huge pain. It might be an interesting project at some point, but as you rightly point out, we already have MS office...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
Can we change Oracle JVM to IKVM? Will it work on RT?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14423136/ikvm-net-as-the-jre-for-openoffice
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
IKVM runs naturally on "jailbroken" RT, and has been in relevant list for months. It's rather slow and the compatibility isn't perfect, but it does the job for some purposes.

If you were asking something more specific, please, well, be specific!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
Sorry. I mean OpenOffice on IKVM.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
That thread that you posted pretty much confirms that no, OOo will not run on IKVM.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Contrary to the popular (and widely derided for being the BS it is) claim on the Internet, basically none of OpenOffice's code is Java. Java was used only for a few small parts that aren't even mandatory so far as I know (plugin stuff).

Now, if you want to take the massive, bloated, ugly beast of a C++ codebase from which OpenOffice is built and re-compile it for RT, go right ahead. Strip out the small handful of Java references and it might even work (assuming the code will build on MSVC, which I've never tested). You'd be left with something that has most (but not all) of the features of a piece of software that is built into the OS, so I'm really not sure why you would bother, but you are welcome to try!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I installed Libre Office before I installed java on my windows 8 64 bit system and it did give an error message but it had the option of continuing anyway and then it was fine without, it never really batted an eyelid, to this day I have still not worked out what it wanted it for.

But yes, the second paragraph is exactly what I thought when I first had the idea, only things I can think of that Open Office does and the RT might not are macros (may be mistaken but were they not cut in RT? not that they are a massive loss) and a PDF exporter (again, may be wrong). Neither of those are massive losses. Only reason I can think of for doing it is to say "hey I have open office". You could say that the same applies to web browsers, but people like web browser choice whereas I doubt there is anyone out there that given a free copy of MS Office would then carry on using Open Office (well, I have been known to use it in school but thats when working on documents I bought from home in Open Office format which had large amounts of content that seemed to break when going between ODT and DOC repeatedly, if I had an RT with MS Office I would probably use that instead).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
OpenOffice has previously either not supported macros at all, or they have had partial / incompatible support so you can't use the macros from MS Office documents anyhow (it was a notable thing some years ago that the Novell version of OO supported macros, but hat could well have been added to all builds by now). I think they were in fact removed from RT, though I haven't checked. It's been years since I last needed Office macros.

MS Office has supported PDF export plugins since 2007, it's been built in since 2010, and with 2013 there's now the ability to *import* and edit PDFs (although the import process is slow and imperfect). This works just fine on RT.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Alias84270:
i want to say many many thank's to everyone work to port win32 app on ARM!!! Thank's a lot !

I saw a project to port chromium on RT, is it dead ? impossible to do ? what's new about it ?

I use my RT essentially for work/school, and it will be helpful for me to have VMWare vSphere Client. I don't think it's open source or something like that. Maybe any one have more information about it. It will be SOOOO powerfull for me and i think for other any administrator/engineer to port it Win RT.

For the moment, for other application i use the RDP to connect on virtual windows 7 client, to use vmware vsphere client for example or Cisco Packet Tracer for school :D

And Again many thank's to everyone work to port apps.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
chromium has a very large and very complex code base. GoodDayToDie was the one working on it. It should be possible to run on RT, its just alot of work for 1 person, especially when they can't always dedicate time to working on it.

Cisco do not release source code. No source no port. Simple as that. You may be able to have *a* packet tracer but not ciscos one.

VmWare is also entirely closed source, and not a likely porting candidate. VNC and RDP are your choices.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Alias84270:
Thank you for this answer

Chromium on the RT, will be so pretty for me :)

does any solution to sync google chrome and IE favorites ?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Myriachan:
I looked a bit at Chromium, and it makes some bad assumptions in a few places that would irritate people trying to port it to Windows RT. For example, its Win32 files have comments like, "since we're on x86, we don't need to worry about memory ordering issues", rather than have a proper implementation.

Firefox might be easier.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Yeah, I actually found that Chromium was a bit better-coded when I looked at the AMD64 code, although it still had things like references to specific registers and such that I had to work around, not to mention chunks of assembly code here and there. The pointer size is different from on RT, but otherwise it's actually a better baseline for porting than the x86 code.

I'm away from home right now so I can't work on that (my work laptop doesn't even have enough storage left to unpack the Chromium source code...) but I'll take another crack at it when I get home.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SilverFreak:
Is anyone going to port foobar2000?? Is it possible?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SilverFreak:
Ops...sorry :(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
On windows 7 and 8 if I go into my bluetooth settings I can create virtual COM ports via bluetooth.

Has this been cut in windows RT?

Part of me is saying yes as of course with microsofts chains it has no need to do such a thing. Another part of me says no because RT is essentially a glorified windows 8 port and it must retain that basic windows 8 functionality.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I think RT supports the same BT profiles as Win8, including exposing a connection as a raw COM port, but I haven't checked. Why, do you have an app that uses COM ports which you want to port over?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
used to have a serial monitor I wrote in c#, very poor but was wondering about touching it up for my own needs and thought about throwing it out here too
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Alias84270:
Well, thank's for you work !!!

I did not see if you work on firefox too ?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I looked at Firefox, but haven't made a serious effort to port it yet (I was actually more interested in Thunderbird, since this was back when the RT mail client was truly atrocious instead of merely bad). It's a bit of a mess to compile it under MSVC, with a bunch of platform configurations which will probably need to be changed / added for RT support. To somebody familiar with that build environment, though, it might actually be easier to port than Chromium.

A word of warning to anybody who hopes to port a JS JIT engine (a noble, if extremely difficult, goal): make sure it generates THUMB2 instructions, not ARM instructions. There are some minor bugs in the interrupt handling in RT which mean that a jump back into ARM code will sometimes be treated as though it's THUMB2 code (this doesn't impact normal operation, since all official RT code is THUMB2). If that happens, the most likely event is a crash due to an unexpected, invalid, or unaligned instruction.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I took a quick look at how someone would compile firefox with the microsoft built tools in google earlier.... Didn't look so pretty.

From what I hear gecko is a horrid mess too so might be a little stubborn to porting efforts.

I did also google opera while I was at it, didn't ever realise that it was closed source :(
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
There's still Konqueror (and indeed the rest of KDE, which includes some nice apps) but even if the components compile on MSVC (QT4, DBus, etc.) the apps themselves are probably full of GCC-isms. I might check, though. KDE for Windows is actually pretty nice if you like KDE in general.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] timfoster:
Is anyone planning on looking at porting Silverlight? It's a farce that the RT doesn't support this out of the box.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
can you explain to me how one would go about porting silverlight when silverlight is not open source and as a result we cannot get at the source code required to port silverlight.

Also, silverlight is dead. MS have stopped using it and just about every site in existence which was using it before has either migrated away from it or is in the process of migrating. Of those which are in the process of migrating the only site of any significance is netflix which has a native windows 8 and RT app.