Be it for development reasons or a serious addiction to a certain game, there are those who find themselves wanting to run Android on a device larger than a phone or tablet. For a mere $10 you can pick up DuOS, a supported Android emulator which will run on a PC, or at least a modern Intel powered machine as the emulator uses VT-x to run properly which is a shame for AMD users. It will not run on ARM hardware but it is ARM v-7 compliant so you can use applications designed for the chip that most mobile hardware runs on with DuOS. The footprint on your machine is tiny, 16GB maximum and you can root the installation very quickly if you are looking to test your modifications to the Android OS before installing them on your phone. Techgage does mention that there is no help menu and you will need to update the application manually so plan to spend some time on the DuOS forums if you will be making use of this software.
"With so many devices out there, on many different operating systems, deciding which one you should purchase can be difficult. DuOS helps lessen that burden by providing an Android tablet experience on your Windows computer. Does DuOS step beyond the barriers that currently divide these OS’s, or are we still locked into one OS per device?"
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I wouldn’t waste a cent on
I wouldn’t waste a cent on this emu at all. Your better off going with “Bluestacks”, which is free and backed by companies like, “Intel, AMD, Big Fish Games, etc”.
Right? Reading the article I
Right? Reading the article I was like “hello? Bluestacks??”
BLUESTACKS.-
BLUESTACKS.-
Andy is another free emulator
Andy is another free emulator to try
Looks to be better than Bluestacks
according to their own comparison chart
http://www.andyroid.net/
on 2nd thought wasn’t able to
on 2nd thought wasn’t able to get Andy working too well on first try and requires facebook to access support pages – bleh!
I had tried it in the past
I had tried it in the past with no results. I thought to try it again now that you remind it to me.
Antutu hangs. Clash of Clans doesn’t run at all. The good old Quadrant does run and shows why using VirtualBox is not the best idea with really slow 2D and 3D performance. Apps that where installed also don’t show anywhere. You have to go in Google play to find them and start them. AMD 1055T and GT 620, 16GB RAM and 840 EVO SSD.
The team behind Andy has a very long way to go.
PS. THAT STUPID LITTLE &*^%*^&)*(_)_*&)(^ DOES NOT UNINSTALL CORRECTLY.
DO NOT EVEN TRY IT. STAY AWAY FROM ANDY.
PS2 Uninstall from Andy’s folder using the uninstall utility. Don’t go to control panel. Run the utility as administrator or it wouldn’t work correctly. Uninstall Virtual box and delete manually the folders in program files that Andy doesn’t remove (except if you want over 600MBs of data -offline installation- left there)
lol – what a pain in the ass
lol – what a pain in the ass trying to delete everything.
Apologize for even mentioning
yep – stick with Bluestacks
Android-x86 is another good
Android-x86 is another good option if anyone is interested.
waiting for Console OS
waiting for Console OS
Thanks for the tip on
Thanks for the tip on bluestacks, gents. Not sure how DuOS compares… since it can’t run on AMD (and also some Intel) CPUs.
Does anybody know of a good
Does anybody know of a good replacement for Bluestacks on Linux? I’m doing quite a bit of gaming on Linux now and would like to get my Android emulator going there too.
Amazing emulator. I just
Amazing emulator. I just loved it. Thanks for the information.