The only computing device that I own is a cheap, late market android tablet. I can play a bit on a borrowed computer, but that doesn't really satisfy me. Does anyone know if anyone's done anything about making freelancer, or old windows programs in general, work on android?
.....probably not. kaythanks, hide me. hide my shame...
I've been working on a proto for Andoid. Problem is, without the source code, it'd have to be completely remade. Then would have make the servers recognized as legit client files.
Overall we'll see. Cannot promise I can get it to work. There are other methods but they're less appl and more web hosting.
As a tablet? Oh Hm well it'd use the same properties so it'd just be like wine for Linux theory. That'd be easier than what I am trying to do. But I don't have a tablet to test one. I could get a tablet emulator. *Shrug*
The problem I see with running anything on a third-party operating system is loading the right peripheral files. The reason that most games run on Windows and not anything else is because they call on specific .dll files and things like .NET and DirectX that are proprietary Microsoft material and aren't compatible with or don't exist on other systems.
A thought, though. If you can attach an external hard drive to the tablet, you could conceivably boot a Windows installation from the external (do android tablets have a configurable BIOS?) and play through that. It would be janky, but it would (probably) work.