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04-18-2016, 05:25 PM
'Counter-Strike' running on Android is both amazing and pointless
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Alibek Omarov deserves a hearty round of applause for this feat of technical ingenuity. Current Android devices were never meant to run a game like Counter-Strike —*yet here is Counter-Strike 1.6, running reasonably well on an Android tablet.
Sure, the performance isn't perfect. And generally speaking, Counter-Strike*isn't the type of game you'd want to mess with on a mobile touchscreen (look at all those "buttons"). But that's besides the point.
Coders like Omarov typically pull off device hacks like this simply to prove it can be done. There's a long history of id Software's Doom*being ported to any screen imaginable, including ATMs (http://mashable.com/2014/07/28/******s-atm-doom/), Apple Watch (http://mashable.com/2015/10/05/apple-watch-doom/) and even a virtual screen inside of Doom (http://mashable.com/2015/07/17/doom-inside-doom/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/counter-strike-android-hack/)
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Alibek Omarov deserves a hearty round of applause for this feat of technical ingenuity. Current Android devices were never meant to run a game like Counter-Strike —*yet here is Counter-Strike 1.6, running reasonably well on an Android tablet.
Sure, the performance isn't perfect. And generally speaking, Counter-Strike*isn't the type of game you'd want to mess with on a mobile touchscreen (look at all those "buttons"). But that's besides the point.
Coders like Omarov typically pull off device hacks like this simply to prove it can be done. There's a long history of id Software's Doom*being ported to any screen imaginable, including ATMs (http://mashable.com/2014/07/28/******s-atm-doom/), Apple Watch (http://mashable.com/2015/10/05/apple-watch-doom/) and even a virtual screen inside of Doom (http://mashable.com/2015/07/17/doom-inside-doom/). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/counter-strike-android-hack/)
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