by hoodedice » Fri Jan 03, 2014 01:34
Jackie45, I don't think you're getting this. Let me put this in layman terms.
Ok. Android is a mobile operating system based on Linux. Minetest runs on many PC OSs including Ubuntu, which is based on Linux. The difference is, C++ does not go nice with Android, the same way that Mexican food and the American stomach does not agree with each other. Minetest is based on C++. So, it does not go nice with Android. Now Android's favourite is Java, and to port Minetest to Java is like rewriting Wikipedia in French. From scratch. Plus, Minetest runs fairly on systems with 2 GHz dual core processors, 1 GB RAM, integrated GPU. We are porting this to something with 1 GHz dual core, 512 MB RAM, and a GPU that will make the intel HD 2000 feel like a GTX 800 with Keplar. And 9001 CUDA cores.
This isn't to say that it hasn't been attempted before. It has been and still is. If you might be patient, we might have a beta around, Summer 2014.
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hoodedice on Fri Jan 03, 2014 01:34, edited 1 time in total.
7:42 PM - Bauglio: I think if you go to staples you could steal firmware from a fax machine that would run better than win10 does on any platform
7:42 PM - Bauglio: so fudge the stable build
7:43 PM - Bauglio: get the staple build