This allows games ported from IOS or Android the ability to retain their original control scheme.
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We have some teams working hard on getting the other things ported but they're not out yet.
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Took western games code and ported it, polished it, generally spiffed it up and sent it back.
The first is that by relying on Android ported apps, the cohesive look of the OS is diluted.
That is what happened in Bosnia, in 1992-95: American warplanes, satellites and airborne radars sup ported non-American soldiers.
Cocoon features a ported enclosure and a built-in, 2-way speaker system with dual-layer woofers for resounding low frequency response.
This might not be quite as earth-rattling as iTunes getting ported to Windows, but it comes fairly close.
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Many of those applications will be quickly ported to the Google TV platform too, aiding the growth of that system.
Army software engineers have developed a way for applications to be ported between the two platforms with minimal effort, officials said.
This creates the interesting situation of a game needing to be ported to the device for which its peripherals are designed.
The boomBOTTLE's incredible bass comes from the large passive subwoofer that is housed in a tuned and ported enclosure for optimum performance.
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In three clicks you can have your doc ported over to QuickOffice, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote or whatever other document viewing program you like to use.
Princess uses these two ships for longer, more exotic-ported voyages and the guests who sail on them tend to be very savvy and experienced cruisers.
That might be a strategy for Playfish, who dropped hints that 2010 and beyond would see the entry of some top titles ported onto to Facebook.
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Emblaze's long-canceled First Else may never come back in its original form, but to our surprise, its futuristic Splay interface has finally been ported to Android!
One issue to which the company is particularly sensitive is the criticism that Xbox games are really just PC games that have been ported to the new platform.
Soul Hackers was originally released on the Sega Saturn in the last 90s and later ported to PSOne, but it was never officially released in the North American territories.
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The integrated passive subwoofer features a ported enclosure for enhance bass performance. boomBOTTLE's built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to 10 hours of continuous playback on a single charge.
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Of course, when clicking for more information, we're simply ported over to a page informing us that the Mac-specific version of the aforesaid platform won't arrive until September.
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Playing with the app is pretty much what you'd expect -- touch controls are less than optimal, and the experience is like playing a ported console game on your phone or tablet.
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Like most of Loki's other ported games (Railroad Tycoon being the notable exception), Heroes III can only be played on the console and not displayed over a network through the X Window System.
It also highlights the promise of 70, 000 QNX apps in the re-named BlackBerry World, although we don't know how many of those are totally new, ported or perhaps cross-compatible with older QNX devices.
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Designed by the same team as the full-fat version, aspiring DJs can enjoy two waveform-based decks, with three-band EQ, eight effects (ported over from Trakor Pro) all redesigned from the ground up for the iPad's touch-based input.
By way of a true Windows 8 operating system with Intel architecture, the broadest array of today's most popular PC games will run natively on the Razer Edge without the need to be ported, optimized or developed anew.
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In addition, given that RIM appears to be experiencing difficulties with porting its enterprise applications to the new OS (BB10), it is far from clear whether these applications could ever be ported to a third-party OS such as Android or Windows Phone.
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Fujitsu, which also sells computers using Sun Microsystems ' (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) solaris operating system, is hoping enough companies have ported 32-bit systems to 64 bits so that it can attract more business than HP did initially.
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