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Re:Windows 10 on ARM by satysin on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:53PM (#14318958)
It uses emulation. While it is true the user needs to download a 'game image' rather than play the game directly from disc this is because that image is a virtual hard disk that contains the game and a customised Xbox 360 virtual machine that has tweaks for the game. It is similar to PC console emulators that have specific configs for certain games.
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Re:Windows 10 on ARM by sjmulder on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:34PM (#14319257)
I thought they do a static recompilation too, from the original binary, but I can't look it up now.
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Re:Windows 10 on ARM by monocasa on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:12PM (#14319940)
That's actually probably the case. Xbox 360 banned making arbitrary pages executable (not even the Kernel could do it, the Hypervisor call to mark a page as executable had to come with the signatures signed by Microsoft's private key).

So they probably can get away with static recompilation.

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