Could Android run Old PC Games?

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mommy2J

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I'm not sure where to post this and please if this is a stupid question try not to insult me, But. Could a game like "Might and Magic 7" been ran on the droid? If so, what would I have to do?
 
in theory it could you would just have to develope the game from the ground up to a .apk file and develop controls. For a person who would ask this question it would probably take a year to develope
 
One way to do this would be to make a basic PC emulator, with CGA (320x200x16) graphics - as that's the only old standard that would fit, sound blaster 8 emulation, base 640K RAM - you know what I mean - the standard PC from around 1990.

However, having said this, there are very few emulators on Android. I can only find SNES, Gameboy Advancedm Gameboy Colour, TurboGrafx, Chip-8, and C64 emulators.

There's not even a Sinclair Spectrum emulator out there, and the clue is in the C64 emulator description where it says "runs very slow" - even though it does play Elite(!!!).
 
I really hate to necro, especially as a first post but...

There are two emulators on the market that allow you to play older pc games, DosBot and Qemu, both of which are pretty new.

DosBot (and probably Qemu) is based on adosbox. Although free, adosbox is pretty hard to get working and needs to be recompiled from source before you can install windows due to it's lack of permissions. Also it uses SDL so you'll need the NDK, and either Linux or Cygwin to do the much needed debugging and building.
 
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