Articles Tagged “Emulator”

Emulators To Be Banned From Android?

by Aerol Bibat on Jun 01, 2011 2 Comments">2

Gaming on Android is pretty limited when you think about it. Most native Android games aren’t exactly designed for the serious gamer – this is mostly because Android is a mobile platform and not a gaming platform. However, most Android devices have pretty impressive specs and can probably run a whole lot of old games. Which is the premise behind emulators. Emulators are programs designed to mimic old gaming console environments. This means you can play any number of old games as long as you have the appropriate ROM for it. This gave Android gamers access to an incredibly large …

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PSX4Droid 3.0 Out Now, Free From ZodTTD

by Glenn Santos on Apr 08, 2011 0 Comments">0

The Android Market troubles of console-hacker ZodTTD hasn’t stopped him from publishing the latest and greatest version of his PlayStation emulator, the PSX4Droid. If you’ve been following his travails lately, you’ll know that Google last week suddenly pulled his emulator from the Market as well as froze his dev accounts. Rumor has it that this was due to the upcoming launch of the Xperia Play, a Sony Ericsson phone capable of playing PSOne games. Oddly enough, emulators for other systems are still available in the Android Market. Apps such as Nesoid, SNESDROID and Gameboid continue to sell and surprisingly, even …

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Canonical system to run Android apps on Ubuntu Linux machines

by Michael Oryl on May 27, 2009 4 Comments">4

ArsTechnica has posted an interesting story about how Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is building an Android runtime environment for the Ubuntu (and potentially other) Linux platforms. While Android is Linux and Java based, it doesn’t exactly play nice with other flavors of Linux and Java, hence the need for a layer of special sauce to go between Ubuntu and Android applications. Canonical claims that it already has a working prototype version of the Android execution environment running under Ubuntu, and that it will eventually publish the source code so that it might be used by others. [via TalkAndroid]

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How-to: Cupcake on the Android Emulator (with video)

by Michael Oryl on Jan 27, 2009 5 Comments">5

The guys at NullWire have put together a nice and neat way to get the Cupcake branch of Android running on your personal copy of the Android Emulator. But before you can do that, you need to download and install the Android SDK. [Step 1] Download the SDK from here and install it. Once you have it installed, which is pretty painless, you can then [Step 2] download the Cupcake image files ZIP for the emulator. Make a note of where you install the SDK (ie. “C:\android-sdk\”).

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Home-grown G1 skin for the Android emulator

by Darcy LaCouvee on Oct 13, 2008 0 Comments">0

Jeffrey Sharkey was bored. Jeffrey Sharkey is also a developer that needed a change of scenery. As such, he decided to peel the skin off of T-Mobile’s flash based G1 emulator and apply it to the Android smartphone emulator that comes as part of the SDK. The result? An updated look to the emulator that even lets you look at the apps running in landscape mode with the keyboard exposed. Pretty cool. [via AndroidGuys]

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T-Mobile makes G1 Android smartphone emulator available

by Darcy LaCouvee on Oct 06, 2008 1 Comments">1

The folks over at T-Mobile have put up a website that includes a G1 emulator that you can play with to get a feel for the device and its Android operating system. Just make sure to click on the “emulator” button at the upper right hand corner, otherwise you might drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how to get the default 360 degree view to respond to screen or keyboard input – like I did. A couple of cool things to try out are the main menu (click on that silver box on the right hand side of the …

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