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'''''ExaGear''''' - a series of commercial programs created in 2013 by the Russian company '''Eltechs''' to translate x86_64 instructions to ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8 to run applications and games from ''Windows'' in a Linux container '' using ''[[Wine|Wine]]'', a free implementation of the ''Windows'' API. | '''''ExaGear''''' - a series of commercial programs created in 2013 by the Russian company '''Eltechs''' to translate x86_64 instructions to ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8 to run applications and games from ''Windows'' in a Linux container '' using ''[[Wine|Wine]]'', a free implementation of the ''Windows'' API. | ||
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Revision as of 15:58, 8 October 2022
ExaGear - a series of commercial programs created in 2013 by the Russian company Eltechs to translate x86_64 instructions to ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8 to run applications and games from Windows in a Linux container using Wine, a free implementation of the Windows API.
| Developer | Eltechs |
|---|---|
| Release date | ExaGear RPG/Strategies - November 3, 2014(beta), Windows Emulator - February 2017 |
| Termination of development | February 28, 2019 |
| Sale project | October 1, 2020 |
| Version | ExaGear RPG - 2.6.8, Strategies - 3.5.0, Windows Emulator - 3.0.1 |
History of the company and program
The company Eltechs was established in 2012 in Moscow, Russia. It is known that the team was led by a man with the pseudonym Armmaster. It also featured pUnK2014 and TheAK47. More information about the company can be found here...
On April 15, 2014, Heroes 3 Runner was introduced on Android, a program that allowed you to run and play Heroes 3 on Android by translating x86 to ARM. Also in 2014, Heroes 3 Runner was renamed to ExaGear Strategies. ExaGear RPG went into beta testing on November 3, 2014. It was designed to run Fallout 1.2, M&M 6,7,8 games.
November 2, 2014 released ExaGear Desktop: a program to run x86 Linux, Windows applications (with Wine) on ARM GNU/ Linux platforms. From 2014 to 2019, many new versions were released, the project developed and became more stable. The GPU was emulated in software, there was no support for OpenGL, as well as Direct3D (only DirectX 1-7)
In 2017, ExaGear Windows Emulator is released - a version of Exagear with Wine 3.0, which was new at that time, to run Windows applications on Android in addition to games. The name "Windows Emulator" is not true, the real Windows was not emulated, there was Wine - a free implementation of the Windows API.
Termination of development, closure and sale of the project
The latest versions of ExaGear RPG, ExaGear Strategies, ExaGear Windows Emulator (2.6.8, 3.5.0, 3.0.1 respectively) were released in 2018. On February 28, 2019, Eltechs stopped supporting Exagear and removed all applications from Google Play, the project was closed.
In October 2020, Eltechs sold ExaGear to Huawei and the project was relaunched under the brand name ExaGear Huawei. Support for x86_64 architecture has been added. The new version only works on Huawei products and has not been released to the public.
Continued development by enthusiasts in 2019-2022
In 2019-2020, support for software 3D acceleration (llvmpipe) was added to Exagear by enthusiasts, which marked the beginning of the development of basic 3D acceleration by adapting virgl-renderer to Android.
In April 2021, a person under the nickname alexvorxx releases a post on 4pda.to(Russian forum) VirGL Overlay in ExaGear, which used virgl-renderer as a renderer. The original application was ported and developed by the user mittorn, and subsequent versions (0.0.5, 0.0.7, etc.) based on new versions of virgl-renderer were built by the user alexvorxx.
This will mark the start of support for 3D acceleration in ExaGear. At that time, most of the games with it were unstable, and those that worked often had graphical artifacts, root rights were also required, and only GPU Adreno were supported.
In the summer of 2021, a non-root version is released, the work of games is improved, the number of graphic bugs is reduced, support for Mali GPUs has been added.
At the end of July 2021 on YouTube channel Grima04 posted a video demonstrating the work of Turnip (Vulkan Adreno open driver)+Zink(Vulkan- >OpenGL)+VirGL(virgl_vtest_server) to ExaGear by using Termux's proot container. A little later virgl_vtest_launcher is released, an early implementation of VirtIO-GPU in ExaGear. At that time, root was required, and there were graphical errors.
In December 2021, Chinese enthusiasts release ExaGear with VirtIO-GPU: VirGL but with Turnip+Zink driver based rendering for Adreno 618+, using the same method as Grima04.
Already in January 2022, alexvorxx releases a cache modification based on the standard one from Eltechs, which uses the GPU directly without VirGL, using only Turnip+Zink built with the xlib library
In the same January 2022, a new convenient, but so far unstable Input Bridge control from DotNetBurst is released (development is frozen)
Gallery
winecfg
The main menu of the application.
Game running on Exagear.
A running Oblivion in Exagear.
A Fable game that runs in Exagear.
Stalker: Shadow on Chernobyl launched in ExaGear.
Links
[Eltechs(archive website]