DOS emulator windows rt

Question

Hi, as an owner of a Windows RT machine, whilst I am very pleased with the quality of my device and alot of the stock apps like office, the real lack of games and apps still a year on has been a pain; when people have brought up x86 emulation before as a possible solution before this has been ruled out because it cannot be done at a reasonable speed, security issues etc. However the old DOS library of games, of which there is a huge library of, do not require much processing power or memory to run at all and a 3rd party DOSbox port was released a while back for RT but having tested it at the time it seemed a little sluggish and no future development seems to have continued there. I was wondering if microsoft or anyone else through the apps store had any plans to release an official DOS emulator to compliment the already existing typical SNES etc emulators on the device? and if not why? Cheers.

Answer 1

No there are no official plans from Microsoft for this.

The reason is the same reason that iPad and Google don't have official DOS emulators:  they want apps to go through the app store (Windows Store on the Windows devices).  Someone else is free to make a DOS emulator app and put it in the store if they want to.