Emulator to run Symbian applications and N-Gage games on Maemo?
 

Is possible a emulator for games on symbian os?

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

It is certainly possible, but compatibility layer and API translation is enormous amount of work, comparable to Wine project on the desktop. So i doubt we will see it soon.

symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Is there anyway that we can get our symbian software on our Maemo.. because the maemo has powerful hardware which is better than all n-cerise nokia.
I think most of us has bought a lot of these software that was in symbian and now as we moved to a new system and at the same time we have the same Ovi store.. we should operate our old symbian on Maemo or at least we should have symbian emulator or something like that.
thanx for reading

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Less likely, symbian uses a different resolution and different memory alocation + someone would need to code drivers for it, just like on your pc.

Your project might be a little too ambitious:rolleyes:

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Just sell the N900 and buy the N97? They practically look similar, anyway.

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Apart from the technical difficulties (which, I'm sure, could be soved... Come on, people run Windows on the N900!), I wonder how it would baffle Nokia's marketing people if you could dual-boot into a fully functional Symbian OS on the N900. :D

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

I'd rather see some of the excellent symbian softwares replicated in Maemo. Soon. ;)

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

I would never think of N97 which always lack of memory..
I rather staying in n900 and wait for 2 years instead
:p

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Yup, 5800 is as far as s60v5 is worth it... from nokia.
I actually wanted to get the omnia HD but... credit card fraud :|
When my money came back, the price difference to N900 was so small I just couldn't help it :D

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Symbian emulation would be great! We could finally use Mobipocket again!

BTW I heard that the guys at XDAdevolpers.com have Android running now on a Windows Mobile device, HTC Touch or so...

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

You can probably do that using palm emulation which is already available. But I don't think any emulation will support DRM. I'd be happy to be contradicted on this!

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

The palm emulation certainly doesn't - it crashes the emulator as soon as I try to open an encrypted file. In general, it should be down to the emulator though - there's no hardware involved for DRM on most of these systems, so there's no reason it couldn't be done.

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

I'd rather see time invested in Maemo versions of quality apps ;)

[SUGGESTION] Emulator for Symbian Apps
 

Watching the news about VMware and Android running on N900 I was wondering if could be possible to come up with an emulator to run Symbian Apps atop Maemo 5...

It seem like a crazy idea and I don't know if it is feasible since I am not a developer and new as a Maemo user. I am sure that it would not be a simple work and also probably wouldn't work for heavy consuming apps, but for sure it would be a solution pretty useful to instantly add lots of new apps to Maemo platform. :cool:

Does anyone know about techincal limitations in the HW or OS to implement such emulation?

Re: [SUGGESTION] Emulator for Symbian Apps
 

Look this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40595

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

It would be good for running TomTom on it though :)

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

ha....u r joking rite.....i have both N97 as well as N900....comparing the two is an insult to N900...maemo 5 is absolutely amazing....apart from the looks they are two completely different stuff....N97 is a phone more like....N900 is more like a mini computer...

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Hey guys, Im new here, and to the whole maemo OS in general, Ive been a symbian nokia fan for soo long, i finally decided to try the n900, the fact that dell had a great price helped me make this decision lol.

Anyways I was wondering the exact same thing, there are soo many nice apps for symbian but im scared I wont be able to find them on maemo. Does anyone know if there are muslim devs out there that can come up with a Qur'an app and one that can give you reminders when the prayers are based on location?

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

As far as I'm aware there isn't anything available right now, but I believe people are looking into either writing or porting suitable applications.

You could ask for what you're looking for here.

symbian on N900
 

This is probably a stupid question but i was just curious to ask the pros.

I know there are emulators available to run gameboy games etc but is it possible to run/port symbian apps on the N900 and what are the complications?

Re: symbian on N900
 

I'm not aware of any way to do it currently. With the open-sourcing of the Symbian code-base, and current work on re-implementing the Symbian emulator, there's hope for being able to do this in future though.

Re: symbian on N900
 

Symbian needs to be rebuilt in that case :P

P.S: web browser is really a PIA :P

Re: symbian on N900
 

I would like it just so I can run TomTom again :)

Re: symbian on N900
 

im not sure if i want to see another symbian OS again as ive had enough of em. But then again Tomtom was the best app, u knw hw many missions that guided me to?! ;) hehehe

Hopefully they will make 1 for the n900 and it will be even better using it with the bigger screen an perhaps an updated version at least as the 1 on symbian was discontinued as well as the maps which sucked when u got to new roads/streets

Re: symbian on N900
 

symbian^3 looks pretty cool ;) and windows 7 mobile too !!!

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

i have wonder too if any of the symbian games are coming to maemo, that's what i miss the most of my old phone, games like Chuck norris bring on the pain, all those ubisoft games from pc games/movies, like prince of persia, assassins creed, mission impossible, all those applications for symbian are really missing in maemo, i don't get why nokia doesn't help us, i feel like maemo is more in the hands of users here than in nokias.....

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

Ding, ding ding we have a winner!

Edit: I should add that this is the reason why I love maemo and you probably don't:)

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

So are you loving the lack of games and applications from big name companys like Ubisoft, EA games, etc?

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

We have all those but on emulators...
Why eat dog food when you could eat steak?

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

what emulators? D: .. i got ScummVM, Snes, and gba and they're great, but i can't say that i wouldn't like contineous games ports on my phone everytime a movie/game comes out, for example, just checked www.mobi11.com for symbian games and they already have iron man 2 games xD and it's not even out... ubisoft will make prince of persia forgotten sands, etc, and mean while i'm playing bjeweld...that's what i miss

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

I wanna run symbian apps, like google maps, with full support for GPS and internets, plus make easy migration from symbian > maemo/meego

this would be epic. I wonder since nokia pretty much runs symbian, and the n900 would be epic if they could do this

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

I do not want hurt you, but I really do not understand.
I have an N900, an openmoko freerunner, an ipaq with angstrom, 3 linux box at office and at home, 2 wifi hotspots with openwrt becouse I'll never need symbian/microsoft/mac applications and prefer too much to hack my hardware and software.

I have a DSL at home with a flat landline voip plan and 10 free sms/day that are possibile only when I'm connected to my home router.
I work very far during the week, installed a 5 euro device on my home network with openvpn server, installed openvpn client on my n900, played with a patched asterisk (as my dsl provider does not follow a standard sip protocool) and played two night to have me use with the n900 my voip landline flat plan and send free sms while traveling over the world.

I'm happy with that, and If I need other things, like symbian games, iphone apps, and so on I simply buy a different (and less expensive) device and not waiting years for someone writing an emulator, layer, virtualization system for the n900.

So instead of asking about that, I prefer to bother nokia to fully open any specs on the n900 :)))

Cheers

Niko

Re: Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?
 

what are you talking about? :s who said anything about voips? or anything, this is a topic about GAMES, one aspect our maemo is seriously failing, i don't like apple fan boys, because they can't accept that iphone isn't that great, but you're doing just the same thing, maemo is light years behind apple/symbian gaming wise, our top game is what? angry birds? ...just check any symbian app page, like mobi11 and see the games section, and you'll realize your missing something....i love my n900 but i can't just obviate that aspect just because.....

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

I had an N97 and i sold it out to buy an N900, and I don't regret it AT ALL...is the best phone/tablet/hybrid/whatever-you-want-to-call-it I'd ever had.

But... there were some apps that, even with all the problems the N97 had/have, made it not so unusable and I haven't found any as good as those (some are very close, yes, but not nearly there).

OMWeather for N900 is great, it really is, but I liked Accuweather a lot better (I found it extremely accurate and the "reel feel" feature was amazing).

Also, the N97 English Dictionary App (I'm not talking about the T9 or anything related with SMS, but a Dictionary App supported by Nokia) was awesome and I used it a lot, as English is not my first language, and I miss something like that in the N900, I tried a couple of Dictionary Apps and frankly they suck.

So, yes, I'm in for either a Symbian emulator or an official Maemo version of those apps.

Re: symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!
 

Maybe you could set up a Symbian emulator on your computer and connect to it via VNC. =B

Can do a Symbian Simulator for N900？
 

if have this software our n900 sure got many function!:)

wish...

Re: Can do a Symbian Simulator for N900？
 

Hmm.. This would be interesting! I second that if possible..

Re: Can do a Symbian Simulator for N900？
 

wish nokia can do this...haha

Re: Can do a Symbian Simulator for N900？
 

Wow.

Everybody loves mameo.

But to have funcionality someone would want on the device Ubuntu... some other symbian... some other iphone OS, some other android... some other windows mobile...

Something is really wrong with the software on this device and it isn't his wonderful comunity. This comunity.

Nokia would take note.

Re: Emulator to run Symbian applications and games on Maemo?
 

The following threads have been merged to form this thread:

• "[SUGGESTION] Emulator for Symbian Apps" with two posts
• "symbian on N900" with six posts
• "Is Possible an emulator for Symbian Games?" with ten posts
• "symbian os ON Maemo... Any appourtonity!" with seventeen posts
• "Can do a Symbian Simulator for N900 ?" with four posts