Running source ports on android

[Erickk64]

Sometime ago i really wanted to play some of lemmings engines, but I never really got a computer  (at least yet), so my only option is my phone.
but now I do know a few things that let me run some lemm engines on the go.

1. Winlator
A actually pretty good PC emulator for android, it uses box64 and wine to run windows games.
Neolemmix worked pretty good on this emulator, however some issues started to appear, like for example, when I try switching levelpacks, the game just crashes, and also the skill hud was REALLY REALLY small and I didn't really know at the time how to change it, aside from that I guess it worked fine. 

As for Superlemmix, the game ran pretty badly on winlator, it was like in a snail's pace, and it had the same issue as NL where switching levelpacks causes the game to crash.. 

And lix.. lix simply did not work on winlator unfortunately  , when i try starting it up, it was basically just a black screen, later crashing.



2. Gamenative (my current "emulator" for lemm engines)
It's also a pretty good emulator, and as the name suggests, it lets you run games natively to your phone! 

Neolemmix worked fine, at first the hud was pretty small but I managed to fix it, the game's a bit slow even in low resolution and fast-forward doesn't work, but I'll probably fix it later.

Superlemmix also worked as well as NL, nothing much to comment about

I finally managed to make lix work, the game seems to run at normal speed, with fast-forward working and all! 



3. Other stuff

A. The lemmings level database works perfectly, it can be a little tricky to play it with touch controls, but you quickly get used to it
B. DHTML lemmings also works fine, nothing much to talk about.
C. For Droidlings, I couldn't get the original lemmings levelpacks to work there, but I could play the original levels from that engine.


I guess that's it, it was a bit complicated to get some of these engines to work on a phone, but i guess that's what you get for trying to run a PC program on a Android!