Play PC games on your Android phone for free using Winlator 2.0

Anyone following this GitHub project?

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Looks interesting, but looks very early in dev and performance seems suboptimal. I wonder if this will get any traction...
I like the idea of this, but I'm struggling to think of x86 games I'd want to play with phone controls. Maybe with a gamepad?

I wouldn't want to play action games with touch controls, and most PC turn-based games use mouse input that's fairly precise and often have small text.

What games would be fun to play this way?
- I've wanted to pay FTL on a touchscreen for years
  
  so annoying that it is actually available on iOS but here we have to do this kind of janky workaround
- It's definitely aimed at controllers and docked keyboard and mouse.
Really wish this was fully open source. Why are these PC emulators always sketchy?
- Maybe because of the propietary nature of x86 platform and Windows. Publishing x86 compatible stuff for free and with ability to modify can get you trouble.
  
  RISC-V emulators and assembly simulators are more friendly because of that.
Not sure where winlator 2.0 is...

I only see version 1.1.

But anyway, looks interesting, but with limited reach.
- Interestingly, 2.0 was pulled from the GitHub. I wonder why.
  
  Closed source version incoming ?
- Go to their github to get an invite to their private signal group for support.
  
  Thanks for the heads up. I'm not seeing a link on the GitHub?

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