Winlator is an Android application that lets you run Windows (x86_64) applications with Wine and Box86/Box64.
I am immensely grateful to ptitSeb and the Wine developers, who developed the Windows compatibility layer (x86_64). Without the constant dedication to Box86/Box64 by ptitSeb and as well as the constant improvements to Wine by its developers, this project would never have been possible.
Credits and Third-party apps
Ubuntu RootFs (Focal Fossa)
Wine (winehq.org)
Box86/Box64 by ptitseb
PRoot (proot-me.github.io)
Mesa (Turnip/Zink/VirGL) (mesa3d.org)
DXVK (github.com/doitsujin/dxvk)
VKD3D (gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d)
D8VK (github.com/AlpyneDreams/d8vk)
CNC DDraw (github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw)
Free or paid:
- Free
Accessibility and User Comments:
Note that I have not yet gotten any audio games to run, but others have gotten A Hero's Call to run. You'll need to play around with lots of settings. The app is pretty accessible, and the view of the running program is focusable with TalkBack so you can get image descriptions.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
Android 15
Do any screen readers run on it? I tested NVDA on Wine a while ago and an old version (2017.3 I think) worked a little bit. I could edit text in Notepad and read some control labels but not much else. It wouldn’t even read the control type or whether a box was checked or not. Has it improved since then?