Reply To: And this is how Podium dies…???

It is not a problem running Podium on ARM processors. I already have Podium running on ARM with the experimental iOS port I did a while back.

What is more problematic is that Microsoft is rumored to only support Metro style apps and not desktop apps, with Windows 8 on ARM based tablets. The new Metro API is called WinRT, which replaces the old Win32 API. With WinRT, Microsoft has understandably chosen to cut out some of the older redundant technology. For example, the Win32 GDI graphics system that Podium uses, is replaced by Direct2D in WinRT. So, I’ll need to implement support for Direct2D in Podium. There are other problem areas, such as with the audio and MIDI support in WinRT, but I’ll just have to deal with them one at a time.