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Direct3D Applications And Wine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-long-before-we-run-oni dept.

Vesuri writes "TransGaming Technologies has released a patch for Wine which makes it possible to run Direct3D applications under Wine. I ran 3DMark2000 and I was impressed - it really DOES work like they promised. It's not perfect but it's a really good start!"

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  1. Running IE on Wine is illegal by yerricde · · Score: 5

    tried IE

    Didn't you read the license for IE when you installed it?

    NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR EITHER MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS ME, WINDOWS NT 4, OR WINDOWS 2000, (each an "OS Product"), YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE OS COMPONENTS AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
    This is another way IE is tied to the OS.
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    1. Re:Running IE on Wine is illegal by CrayDrygu · · Score: 5
      NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID EULA FOR...

      So you only need to have the EULA? You don't need to agree to it, or have Windows installed, or even own a copy of Windows? Just need to be in possession of the EULA?

      Sounds like running IE on Wine is perfectly legal. You just need a friend who runs Windows, and a photocopier =)

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  2. WINE != Emulator by runswithd6s · · Score: 5
    WINE stands for "Wine is Not an Emulator". It is a clean-room implementation of the Windows API. WINE loads the program and links the native libraries in place of the Windows DLL's. When the program calls for a function, the NATIVE code is executed. There is no emulator involved here...

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  3. Now the only hting that's left... by levik · · Score: 5

    ... is to make viruses and VB scripts run on Linux through WINE. Once that is done, the migration of the desktop user base to Linux can begin in earnest.

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  4. damn by Bad_CRC · · Score: 5
    I can't even run directX apps in Windows NT4.

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  5. Re:Is wine good for linux? by dmorin · · Score: 5

    We have to decide which battle to fight. It's no good having the perfect platform with perfect apps if no one uses it. The masses won't use it until a critical mass of applications is available, and those apps won't be available until the masses can shell out the $$. The thing that Wine does is gets more people running Linux by providing those Windows apps that don't exist as Linux apps yet. Once they're on Linux, if our OS is really as good as we think it is, they should learn really quickly that native Linux apps are better than emulated ones, and want to switch over. But first we need that critical mass of audience, not of native apps. IMHO.

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  6. Re:Is wine good for linux? by hipplesnard · · Score: 5
    I hate it when people always say this sort of thing when wine comes up on slashdot. They tend to forget that the wine that gives all of these screenshots is only part of wine.

    A significant part of the wine development is on winelib, which allows windows applications to be compiled on linux, bsd or pretty much any unix for i386. There is also work on porting winelib to sparc systems.

    RTFM people WineLib Users Guide

    I fail to see how this capability would take any support away from porting applications.

  7. Killer Applications by perlyking · · Score: 5

    This is a step in the right direction because no matter what people say games are often killer applications that help people choose their computing platform.

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