2025-11-12 19:58 UTC
Okay but like, the buried news here is that Valve and collaborators casually dropped an insanely good x86 to ARM translation layer to make the Steam Frame possible which is gonna be kind of a revolution in this space? And it's open source too?
Like, gaming on ARM Linux is possible, and not in the "they ported Balatro to Android" way. A bunch of Android tablets are going to become very cool very quickly.
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@mdstevens0612@mas.to 2025-11-13 05:42
Oh wow that is a lot of boosts to wake up to
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@the_moep@mastodon.de 2025-11-12 21:22
@mdstevens0612@mas.to This seems to be it: https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX And they have a fediverse-account: @FEX_Emu@mastodon.social
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@zrb@social.hildebrind.space 2025-11-12 22:43
@mdstevens0612@mas.to they said in an interview with Gamers Nexus that’s it’s emulation not translation but still cool
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@sammy@cherrykitten.gay 2025-11-12 23:12
@mdstevens0612@mas.to yeep, apart from the hardware being cool and interesting, this announcement feels like a huge thing on the software side that might open up some real exciting possibilities in the future
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@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work 2025-11-13 11:20
@mdstevens0612@mas.to isn't it just FEX, the existing translation layer?
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@thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com 2026-04-25 07:35
@mdstevens0612@mas.to Why stop at gaming? I assume also a bunch of applications ought to be executable