{"id":2869,"date":"2016-04-18T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/counter-strike-running-on-android-is-both-amazing-and-pointless\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:20:12","slug":"counter-strike-running-on-android-is-both-amazing-and-pointless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/counter-strike-running-on-android-is-both-amazing-and-pointless\/","title":{"rendered":"'Counter-Strike' running on Android is both amazing and pointless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alibek Omarov deserves a hearty round of applause for this feat of technical ingenuity. Current Android devices were never meant to run a game like Counter-Strike \u2014<\/i>\u00a0yet here is Counter-Strike <\/i>1.6, running reasonably well on an Android tablet.<\/p>\n

Sure, the performance isn’t perfect. And generally speaking, Counter-Strike<\/i>\u00a0isn’t the type of game you’d want to mess with on a mobile touchscreen (look at all those “buttons”). But that’s besides the point.<\/p>\n

Coders like Omarov typically pull off device hacks like this simply to prove it can be done. There’s a long history of id Software’s Doom<\/i>\u00a0being ported to any screen imaginable, including ATMs<\/a>, Apple Watch<\/a> and even a virtual screen inside of Doom<\/i><\/a><\/i>. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alibek Omarov deserves a hearty round of applause for this feat of technical ingenuity. Current Android devices were never meant to run a game like Counter-Strike \u2014\u00a0yet here is Counter-Strike 1.6, running reasonably well on an Android tablet. Sure, the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1429,2100,739,863,803],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-android","tag-counter-strike","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-mobile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}