yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
Hey, does anyone else have problems with not being able to run x86 programs as administrator?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
It shoudl work if you runt he launcher itself as Admin, I think... honestly though I haven't tried. I've yet to have any install program actually succeed for me, although a few of they said they did there wasn't anything in the terget folder when I checked.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
I ran the launcher as admin, as well as creating an admin shortcut for the program...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Sorry for the long delay.

AOE is already working in my private build. But there are some issues I have to resolve before publishing it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mohitgalaxy3:
Hi, Just want to know earlier I tried to run VLC player and Gom player but I cannot, is the new update able to run VLC or GOM player set up ??
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
REALLY?!?! This makes me happy. Thank you for all your work! Cannot wait for the next build! ?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] domini99:
Re: [Beta version] Running x86 apps on WinRT devices

Does gta iv work :p:rolleyes:

*troll

Sent from my sending thing..

Stupid Macbook Air can't fly
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Wow. You even bothered trying VLC? thats a full fledged media app. the abilities of this thing end at about wordpad....
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] southbird:
Honestly this would be a much better candidate for porting. Even if the emulator matured enough to run VLC, I doubt the performance would be all that great.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
VLC has already had a successful kickstarter for an official VLC store app available for windows 8, windows RT and windows phone 8.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] southbird:
Well, that's even better. :) But still, if you're talking Desktop Windows source VLC, porting better than emulating.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Felipe.rar:
Hello I need install the Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate on surface RT, is this possible?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
No, it's not.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] landwomble:
Re: [Beta version] Running x86 apps on WinRT devices

Doubt ms will allow it in the store though due to inclusion of dvd codes that's legal in France bit nowhere else...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
no idea what your on about with legal in france but nowhere else.

The audio/video codecs used are all from the libavcodec package. It is open sourced and includes no reverse engineered code or stolen proprietary code. It is perfectly legal for use anywhere.

The DVD decrypter is libdvdcss which attempts to decrypt CSS dvd's ready for playback via the libavcodec. libdvdcss attempts to generate a list of possible authentication keys or attempts a brute force generation. No company has ever challenged the legality of this unlike another similar library called DeCSS. Again, libdvdcss doesnt use anything reverse engineered from proprietary code.

MS have no reason to block libavcodec. They may wish to block libdvdcss though. If they do choose to block libdvdcss then that would be fine, VLC itself works perfectly fine without it, you just cant play back encrypted DVD's natively, they could use the decrypter included in windows 8 pro (but not in windows 8 or RT) or it might well be possible to add the option of downloading the VLC app and then adding the libdvdcss file yourself if you absolutely need this functionality. Loss of libdvdcss on windows 8 would be annoying, windows 8 pro not so much, RT it would make no difference as it cant read DVD movies from an optical drive anyway.

Loss of libdvdcss would make no difference to ripped DVD's as most DVD ripping tools decrypt as part of the process so the resultant file would be playable via VLC through libav alone.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] saarakura:
I have tried to run a app and this is what is shown to me

[000433AF]W: 00400000-00B30000 : D:\Cálculo Numérico 5.1\VCN.exe

[000433DD]W: 04FD0000-05002000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\KERNEL32.86.dll

[000433FD]W: 05010000-05028000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\supp.86.dll

[0004342C]W: 05030000-05053000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\ADVAPI32.86.dll

[000434C8]W: 05080000-05099000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\comctl32.86.dll

[000434F7]W: 050A0000-050B4000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\comdlg32.86.dll

[00043526]W: 050C0000-050DD000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\gdi32.86.dll

[00043554]W: 050E0000-050FB000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\ole32.86.dll

[00043593]W: 05100000-05122000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\oleaut32.86.dll

[000435C2]W: 05130000-05147000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\shell32.86.dll

[000435F1]W: 05150000-05175000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\user32.86.dll

[00043620]W: 05180000-05194000 : C:\Program Files\win86emu\System32\version.86.dll

[0004363F]E: PeLdr can't open file: winspool.drv

[0004363F]E: Import dll winspool.drv not found

[0004363F]E: Error loading program: 1168

Any way to fix this ? is any dll ?

Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Strictly speaking, using libdvdcss is illegal under the DMCA (in the US) and probably under similar laws elsewhere, as it constitutes a copy prevention circumvention mechanism. As a practical matter, it's not usually worth fighting; suits against DeCSS were largely unsuccessful and certainly didn't make money for the DVD CCA. However, most free Linux distros do not include libdvdcss by default out of concern over this issue.

@saarakura: winspool.drv is the Windows print spooler. There have been issues porting to RT in the past relating to the print spooler, but most likely it is just unsupported by the tool at this time. Generally speaking, programs do not need to talk to the spooler directly...
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
winspool.drv is present in the recent build. But public version of the build is delayed due to a lack of time (our company is being IT-audited, so last month I've lost all free time I could spend on this project - had to prepare for audit instead).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] saarakura:
Sorry hear that....i will wait for this version, in this version there is nothing we can do to bypass this ? i dont wanna to print nothing on this app that i have tried to run...

Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
no way around it right now.

Just got to wait for mamaich to have the time available
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Oh, technically you could create a stub DLL that exports the correct functions, compile it for RT, name it winspool.drv, and put it with the emulator... but that's a non-trivial amount of work and it isn't guaranteed the app would work afterward anyhow.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
A practical no then?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
You could also just take winsrv.drv from x86 and toss it in the folder and just not call any print functions.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] saarakura:
I tried it but no luck....
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] danthekilla:
Hey just wondering how this project is going. Any updates?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Uploaded a new build to the first post. This is a first update after a long delay.

This build adds 256-color support, so Age of Empires would run (tested on the russian pirated version I've found on torrents).

One note: due to one of the recent driver updates - it is no longer possible to set 640x480 or 800x600 display modes on the device. I emulate such modes by adding black lines to the right and to the bottom of the screen, so the picture appears at the top-left screen corner. I may add centering or scaling in next builds, but this would require adding the mouse coordinate translation, so it would not happen soon.

You may tweak the nvidia driver by editing the "NV_Modes" in registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{D7F0B22A-58DF-4A4D-AAA5-B7766CED7EFE}\0000 and add there "640x480x32,64" and other modes you need. But be careful as editing registry may be dangerous.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Diepvriezer:
can not play AOE 3 :crying:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] saarakura:
This new version has the winspoll.drv ????

Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Thats hardly unexpected....
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
AOE 3 was not tested as I'm targeting old versions first. And anyway AOE3 has too high requirements to be playable - and even more, AOE3 requires D3D ("64 MB video card with HT&L" in readme). So do not expect it to be compatible in the foreseeable future.

AOE1 works fine.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I thought my post implied that aoe3 would not work anyway...

How well does age of empires play? I used to love that game, might have to see if I have the CD anywhere still.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
AOE1 is playable. Speed is fine, but you need a mouse as it is not touch-friendly. It has a palette issue on the start screen - the text color on buttons is wrong, but other colors are correct.

Probably network game is not working - as I've just started working with DirectPlay.

Found a bug in the 0.3 version - it no longer runs HOMM3 (a new bug in ole32.dll). Would fix it this weekend, or you may try to take ole32.86.dll from the 0.2 version (it is in "system32" dir).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
Darn it. AOE2 doesn't work. It installs %99 percent, then crashes. :p
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
I don't support most of the installers now. Just copy the installed version, import registry if needed (use regedit.86.exe, do not double click on REG file as this would import keys to your "system" registry, not to emulated keys).

AOE2 is not tested yet. AOE Gold - works fine. Of cause you'll need a no-cd version.

Updated a first post - uploaded a bugfixed build.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
Ok, I'll try it out again when I get home. I've tried copying registry values with the included regedit, but I have an amd processor, do all of the AOE keys are under WOW6432 or whatever. Anyone else have an x86 computer with AOE2 who wants to share their registry entries? :D
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Jimm98y:
Wow the beta 0.3 can almost run Fallout 2. I get the Interplay logo which is rendered correctly, then it crashes unless I hit the right mouse button - then it plays the second and the third intro with some image issues (squares similar to low res jpeg), but the voice is clear and there is no stutter. Then it crashes no matter what I do just before showing the main menu :( But this is definitely a good progress, maybe in the beta 0.4 I'll be able to get in the game :D Thank you very much for the effort you put into this.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
YAY!!! AOE2 Conqueror's Expansion works! :laugh: Well, sort of. I did what you said and copied over the files from my laptop's installation. The game runs, but cannot even play a single-player game on the smallest map with one computer (it does get close before it crashes though). The unofficial Forgotten Empires expansion doesn't even launch though (not surprising). It's missing a slew of DLLs, which I tried copying over, but it still didn't work :silly: Anyway, I've attached some pics, so you can see how far it gets. Thanks again for the great work!!! :highfive:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I think AoE2 just used a slightly rehauled AoE1 engine so assuming the requirements havent been pushed up too high I imagine it could run in a future emulator update.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] FlashTek95:
What did you make to start AoE II? Because everytime I try to launch it, it says, that this .exe cannot be opened oO
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
I simply copied my entire AOE II folder from my laptop, put it in x86node > Program Files > Microsoft Games, and ran the No CD hack file. :laugh:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] amb9800:
Tried Empire Earth (v1.4, with NoCD patch applied) - I get the splash screen, but then it disappears, with peloader.exe crashing.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] empryal:
Would it be a good idea, now that compatibility is starting to grow that we start a thread that has an updated first post of known compatible programs that the community has tested?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
Good idea... Mamaich? Also, are you considering giving this a name Mamaich? :good:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] skrundarlow:
I'm having a lot of problems with running pretty much everything, that someone might be able to help me with/Mamaich might find useful.

peloader.exe is causing me a lot of issues. In age of empires for example (which I had to install on the surface itself and not just copy over the files, so that I could get a functional no cd patch) I can open and start playing the game, but after a minute or two of gameplay peloader.exe stops functioning and shuts down the program. This happens in more or less everything I try to do.

Is this a problem on my end or a known issue, I can't find much on it searching through the thread. Is there anything more I can tell you that will help?

EDIT: HOMM III seems to be working quite well. I'll try downloading a copy of AoE from the internet (as opposed to disc) and see if that works.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
It's an early beta, most things just don't work yet.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] skrundarlow:
Still can't get AoE stable, I feel like there might be some files I'm missing, but I don't know.

Tried Starcraft, couldn't open as it gives an error to do with the games' font not being available.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] med007:
Will this project help open / run .ISO files on winRT

I can mount ISO files and view them in file explorer but no software can run it yet.

Might emulation help?

P.s. has Microsoft made daemon tools obsolete by allowing these .iso files to mount?

Would vlc save the day when it gets through windows store approval?

Would jailbroken VLC be better than windows store version yet to come? (predictions?)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
1. No, this project doesn't help mount ISOs. The very concept of "running" one makes no sense; they aren't programs.

2. This project *is* emulation; but "help" with what? Running x86 programs? Yes, that's literally the entire point. Whether those programs are on ISO images or otherwise doesn't matter.

3. Not entirely (there are other formats for disc images) but your question is irrelevant and offtopic.

4. "Save the day" is meaningless here, and your question is even *more* off-topic and irrelevant.

5. By "jailbroken" I'm going to assume you mean "emulated" because otherwise your question is nonsense. Answer: almost certainly not; media decoding using CPU emulation will be godawful slow. It might work where the emulation layer can pass off the work to hardware, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] pauliusba:
How come homm3 is working for you? Mine won't go past 3DO logo, it just crashes to Desktop.

P.S.: I am using the latest version.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
There is problem with some HOMM3 packages (maybe gold edition?), they crash in the intro. You may try to disable intro in registry until I'll find such a package and fix the reason.

I'll create a post with a list of working apps and instructions on getting them running when I'll publish a new build. I hope a new build would be ready this weekend.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] pauliusba:
It's the most popular gold edition. I tried changing the registry setting for no intro, but no luck. Hopefully it will work on the next version.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Gavisann:
Has anyone had any luck with console emulation? I tried a few for the N64 and at the best it would crash when I loaded the ROM claiming a missing graphics plugin.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
I would have thought it was dead obvious it wouldn't work.

Firstly. Console emulation is incredibly CPU intensive. N64 emulation uses over 80% CPU on my 2ghz single core intel celeron. The emulator has an estimated speed of around 0.1ghz, not even a small fraction of what is required. Your trying to emulate a console inside an emulation of x86 (which is incredibly hard to do efficiently on a 1.3ghz ARM CPU).

Secondly. The missing graphics plugin. That is also to be expected. Anything more complex than drawing a basic window is 99% certain to be beyond the abilities of this emulator.

Your best off requesting a native port of an N64 emulator, that is more likely to happen. However you will hit graphics plugin issues again as most current emulators use OpenGL or DX9 based plugins. Not DirectX 11 which is the only thing we have access to on the RT. OpenGL ES plugins exist and it is rumored that Windows Blue may be introducing OpenGL ES due to the presence of WebGL stubs in internet explorer on the various blue leaks, web GL relies on at least OpenGL ES or full blow OpenGL. If that is the case then some of the existing plugs may be able to be ported. It would be a behomoth of a task but a DirectX 11 based plugin isn't impossible to make either.

Another big issue would be that current N64 emulators use GCC based tools, I am not aware of a visual studio based emulator in existence. GCC is being worked on. Once that is done then N64 emulators on the RT direct might be possible.

There is a GBA emulator on RT, not in the x86 emulator. Dont know what performance is like as I dont think it uses any hardware acceleration and it doesnt work too well on x86 either :P
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Kyddil:
Since we have to use this crappy browser called IE, I wanna ask if someone tried to install the windows app of 'Hola' > http://hola.org/

So I can watch Netflix outside of US..
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
I don't know what rendering engine Hola uses, but the odds are pretty good that it's WebKit (like Safari or Chrome) and there's really no way that a modern rendering engine will run in the current emulator version, much less run with acceptable performance. If it uses the system's built-in rendering engine (Trident, the same one used by "this crappy browser called IE") then it actually might work if the required interfaces have been implemented... at least for basic browsing. I would be quite shocked it the interfaces required for the unblocker feature are supported in the emulation layer, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] casper0k:
Did you try app from Store "Snes8x" (Super Nintendo emulator)?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Updated the first post with a new build.

This build adds the compatibility with some of the installers, for example you can correctly install Homm3 Gold directly on a device.

It also contains the hook that allows automatic launch of x86 programs. Just run "Autostart x86 programs" after jailbreak.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Jimm98y:
Looks really great - I just installed the latest version and the autostart functionality is amazing. However, I tried to play Fallout 2 and since the previous beta I can get to a main menu without any crash, but the game does not react to any kind of input (touch, mouse, keyboard). In the previous version of the app, I was able to skip the intro and then it crashed on the menu screen. Now it stays on the menu screen and I cannot do anything but to close it. Could you please look into that in some of the future versions?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Ok, I'll download fallout 2 from torrents and would look.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
doublepost, deleted
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Fixed a bug with mouse in Fallout 2, it is playable in the 0.05 build that I'll publish a few days later.

I'll try to make the hi-res fallout2 patch working (so that you'll be able to play in the 1366x768 resolution) and then I'll publish a new build.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] nightbringr:
Aoe 2 is fairly close to working, I got one of the tutorial levels to play, I didn't do anything special it just worked. Villagers were quite happy to kill sheep and forage for berries and the militia attack! Happy days, hours of timewasting ahead

Edit...

Seems several, if not all the tutorial levels work. Need to have it set on the lowest graphic setting otherwise it crashes to the desktop
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Jimm98y:
Thank you very much, that would be really great... does it mean it would be playable using touch, or mouse only?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Fallout can be played only with mouse due to its internal mouse implementation (it processes relative mouse movements, not absolute mouse coords).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Donny1987:
Thanks for this, very nice :)

Weird thing with a program I tested, I installed mIRC with v0.4 of your program and it seems to be working just fine... till it connects then the program seems to be minimizing and you don't see it anymore. The client is online though because I can see the name on the server I connected it too.

Any idea how to get this fixed, what information do you need from the log file?

Thanks again. :laugh:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Make sure that mIRC hasn't minimized to the notification area (icons by the clock, click the little arrow to show them all). It likes to do that.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Donny1987:
It's not minimized to the tray, I checked that. For some reason the window disappears but remains online :confused:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
Made a minor update. Now Fallout 2 can be played with mouse, though keyboard control is unusable in it. Keyboard would be fixed later, but due to a lack of free time I can't tell when.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
Thank you for impressive project! Now I can use MangaMeeyaCE on my Surface RT.

Can't we apply Mono project for this?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
why use mono when we have .net on windows RT by default? No x86 emulation or mono port required for that. Same does not necessarily apply to .net libraries which may need porting to arm if they use native code.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
Because Windows RT only have .NET 4.5. Didn't it? I have problem with one of my favorite program that use .NET 2.0.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] hisoft:
I notice that autohook.exe take use CPU all time. It take 3-5% every 3-5 second. I understand that can't avoid. But I think the launcher.exe will accept program path as parameter. Then I can run program properly without activate autohook by create shortcut (and that mean I can drag & drop in file explorer, pin on taskbar and drop exe file on it).

The launcher itself was no need for stay in notification area. It took memory and a thing away from system.

It only my suggestion. Thank you for this impressive project again.

One more thing. I think you forgot to change log file writer. It still write version as 0.04.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
It certainly runs .NET 4.0 applications fine. Windows 8 on my system also has 3.5 so I assume RT goes back at least that far too.

What is the program you are trying to run? If it is open source it might be more beneficial to attempt to compile it with .NET 4 rather than trying to get it running as a .NET 2 application with x86 emulated mono (or native ported mono). x86 emulated mono would be awfully slow if it actually ran at all. Otherwise, not really sure how else you could run .NET 2 on RT if it doesnt actually have .NET 2 already.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] domini99:
Will minecraft ever be playable on windows rt?

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