The rest of the article is mildly interesting, but if you just took the bait from the headline:
On a technical level, Xbox One is essentially a PC using a heavily modified version of Windows, and this software simply translates native Xbox applications into a form that can run on standard Windows PCs
So…software emulation…kinda. I guess translation technically. Whatever lol.
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Author apparently thinks hardware emulation is the only kind of emulation.
Wine is not an Emulator is not an emulator.
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API wrappers are not emulators.
Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we’re talking about computers in this case.)
Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or “translation layer”, a lot of its functionality wouldn’t work.
The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle.
But go ahead and believe what you want. I’m not looking for an argument.
They are, however, accomplishing the same thing as emulators, just with a different strategy.
And I feel the hardware requirements end up way lower, when I had a bad PC I could play Burnout Revenge at full speed on the 360 emulator, but the PS2 version ran like a turtle.
A screwdriver can be a hammer if you’re determined enough
I can’t wait to play the proper Forza Horizon 2, and Crash Team Racing, curse you Activision for not bringing this one to PC!
I don’t know which one of the ctr games you are referring too, but you might be interested about this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwSkmAp7f8, there is an effort from ctr community to port the ps1 game on pc
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he followed through on that, but only because Xbox gave up and ported their slop over to Steam anyway
Hopefully I’ll get to finally play Gears of War 2.
Yes been wanting to play the og gears again for years now on PC I want a gears style MCC so bad
Isn’t it all on game pass?
Maybe (probably) but I don’t want to play it via gamepass
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/gears-of-war/bpn08zdrpsfk
You can buy it.
I actually didn’t know the first game was there never used or looked at the Xbox store
That’s already out isn’t it? Remastered and everything.
The first is apparently remastered on the Xbox store for PC I had no idea tbh never used the Xbox store on PC.
Well, of course not, because Wine Is Not an Emulator. Considering it’s called XWine1, would there be a Linux version too?
I think that’s called proton (jokes aside yes I know steam wouldn’t do that for obvious legal implications.)
Why would they, Xbox uses a version Windows and an x86 core + AMD GPU, bog standard parts, bog standard system, it’s easier to tap into the windows component on an x86 system and just use that to run the games. Making a proper emulator for games that would otherwise run on the PC natively just wouldn’t make sense.
I think this will become true for a lot of the new gen systems in the future (starting from xbox1).
Same for PS4 maybe running easier on OpenBSD/Unix-like systems by having a similar kernel.Will certainly be interesting!
