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Help installing Windows as an app?

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android bugger

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I've seen those on youtube.. only the earlier versions... (95 to 2000) .. the newer ones have so many steps... any suggestions?( an easier guide?)
 
Win 95 and 98 hardware requirements were really quite modest by current PC specs, and software emulation of a 100MHz 486DX or Pentium PC with 8-16MB RAM or something is not really a problem for most modern Android devices.

If you want to run recent versions of Windows, such as 8.1 or 10 on your Android phone with software emulation of a PC, forget it. There are some modern lightweight tablets around that can run desktop Windows no problem, which use Intel Atom x86 processors.
 
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I have read that for this to work you need 1-2GB of RAM. Your device (Polaroid Alps) has 512MB so is not powerful enough
 
There are PC emulator apps for Android, but an extremely inefficient way of doing things, because you're trying to emulate a desktop x86 PC using a mobile ARM processor via software. So effectively your 2.3GHz Snapdragon 815 or whatever becomes like a 133MHz Pentium or something, which might run up to Win 2000, but nothing later. Even XP would be painfully slow. It's not the amount of RAM a device has, although more RAM is better of course, it's a completely different CPU architecture, between a PC and most Android devices.

Frankly something like a cheapo Polaroid tablet, with only 512MB RAM and modest CPU, might have difficulty in running just Android at its best, never mind being a desktop PC.
 
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Well you can boot vintage versions of Windows, run Notepad, Wordpad, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Calculator, etc, but can't do much else with them really, and certainly not USB OTG peripherals. The PC emulator usually used is Bochs, and some people in China put together pre-made APKs with them, ready to run. That's all can say really here, AF forum rules, because Windows is copyrighted, and unauthorized distribution and use is illegal.

To be completely legal and within the law, you install Bochs for Android, and then use your own licensed copy of Windows, or you run a Linux OS instead in Bochs
 
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Let's say, I had a newer version, does otg work? Can I install new programs? Browse web? Play PC games? Etc. Like a normal PC would? ( I know there are limitations) and how do I install Linux on it?
 
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android bugger said:
Let's say, I had a newer version, does otg work? Can I install new programs? Browse web? Play PC games? Etc. Like a normal PC would? ( I know there are limitations) and how do I install Linux on it?
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Well you can't install any desktop Windows(newer or older) directly on Android, because it's NOT a PC of course, so you have to use a software PC emulator app, such as Bochs. And because it's emulating a completely different system with software, CPU and everything, you basically end up with something that has the performance of a 1990s Pentium PC, which just will not run any recent versions of Windows or modern Windows applications and games. Even running Linux, you'll have to use a small lightweight version, like Puppy Linux, and not full Ubuntu or whatever. You install and run the Bochs APK, and then you load an appropriate image of the OS you wish to run. The more powerful the Android device, the better and faster PC emulation it can provide.

A Polaroid tablet, it's probably going to be quite a lowly and slow PC emulation, the tablet only has 512MB RAM total, less whatever Android and the emulator takes, might not leave much for PC emulation at all. Think about it, what versions of Windows can you install on a Pentium PC that only has 512MB RAM in total? 95, 98, 2000, Me, and XP, and that's it.

FYI: if you can read or translate Chinese, there's a lot of information about it here...
http://bbs.hiapk.com/thread-4750312-1-1.html
That PocketNow, Win 95 booting on Android you posted, and probably much of what's on Youtube, that stuff does come from China. However this is the official site for Bochs, which is not Chinese, and for Windows versions to run, you'll have to find your own options for that.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
 
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Can I ask, what exactly are you trying to achieve? It already is running a Linux kernel OS, Android! If you want to play modern PC games on an Android tablet, it's just not going to happen, period! The limitations are, as I've already stated, find what will run on a 133MHz Pentium class PC, with say 64 or 128MB RAM, and very modest SVGA graphics, sort of like a typical PC from the mid '90s. Think Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Doom, Wolfenstein, and similar. :D

To run a small PC Linux OS in Bochs, it's same as Windows 95, 98, etc. actually.
 
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