Comment on Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles

big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can Win32 programs run on the xbox? I know there's Edge, but iirc, that's packaged in some unique way.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought all xboxes were x86 hardware running some variant of windows under the hood?

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'm pretty sure the shared applications it's referring to there are UWP apps, which use a different set of APIs to traditional Win32 apps that are only available on full Windows versions. I looked into how Edge works a bit more, and it sounds like Microsoft made a special translation layer to take Edge's Win32 API calls and turn them into UWP ones. I guess games would be possible to run like this too?

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just slap proton on there

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