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Will it be possible to compile Minetest to run on Windows RT (the stripped down windows 8) on the Microsoft surface RT? I'm thinking that even if it were possible, there just won't be enough horsepower there unless one went with and older version of Minetest. But I'm thinking it will probably be able to run on Surface Pro which runs full windows 8.

No.

Calinou wrote:No.

can you explain why not? so far almost everything which runs on normal windows runs in windows rt too...

as minetest support dx, i would expect that minetest runs on a windows rt version too...

anyway the surface will be win8 and you can choose between windows 8 rt and a normal windows 8 version, depends how much you want to spent.

as the small surface is more powerfull then my old eeePC (Kubuntu) i expect that it will run ...

finaly we should see/know that at the end of this month ;-)

Wikipedia says no.

Mito551 wrote:Wikipedia says no.

can you pls give a link to the part in the wiki where it's said...

as there is a c++ version for win rt (dont know abt the win8 rt) and irrlicht shall run unter rt too... i dont see why it should not run on a surface rt tablet..

did somebody try ?

tkerwel wrote:

Mito551 wrote:Wikipedia says no.

can you pls give a link to the part in the wiki where it's said...

as there is a c++ version for win rt (dont know abt the win8 rt) and irrlicht shall run unter rt too... i dont see why it should not run on a surface rt tablet..

did somebody try ?

Wikipedia wrote:It will officially only run software available through the Windows Store or included in Windows RT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

is surface out yet?

@mito551 thanks for the link, did not know this yet...

surface should be out with windows 8, but did not see any posiblility to order it at the moment, not even on "smallsoft"side.

if thats really like it said on the wiki, i am sure not many ppl will buy a surface rt tablet. and as the price for the win8 pro version should be around 700 to 800 euro.....if so i would wait for the china win8 tablet (Lenovo) which should be around 500 euro

UPD: (missed that part earlier)

Wikipedia wrote:Only software written using the Windows Runtime (Metro style apps) can be used on Windows RT with the exception of Microsoft Office 2013 and the desktop version of Internet Explorer 10. Developers will not be able to create applications to run on Windows RT using the Win32 APIs

i have an android lenovo tablet(thinkpad tablet). features are great, but stability leaves much to be desired. i made my choice in favor of features, and i don't regret it.

sooooo

yesterday they finaly show the priece for the surface win rt version starting 499 dollar and for the type cover 119 dollar on top...

my opinion: gud luck MS ... my plan to buy a surface are gone....price and windows rt .. two things for a NO GO


now i will see if the IdeaPad Yoga 13 with windows 8 pro will be a alternative ... guess will be the same range then the surface windows 8 version...

tkerwel wrote:sooooo

my opinion: gud luck MS ... my plan to buy a surface are gone....price and windows rt .. two things for a NO GO

Yeah there were so many rumors of $299 with the keyboard. Now it looks like I'll be buying a Nexus 7.

Neuromancer wrote:

tkerwel wrote:sooooo

my opinion: gud luck MS ... my plan to buy a surface are gone....price and windows rt .. two things for a NO GO

Yeah there were so many rumors of $299 with the keyboard. Now it looks like I'll be buying a Nexus 7.

I'm looking at a iPad2 16gb.

Normal Windows Applications won't run on Surface because, the Surface has an ARM processor.
It needs to get specially compiled for that