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WINE for Mac OS X in Development

Posted by pudge on from the but-can-i-play-games-on-it dept.

TylerL82 writes "The Darwine Project aims to get WINE up and running through X11 on Mac OS X/Darwin. According to the site, WINE itself compiles rather well, and they'll be using Bochs for the actual x86 emulation. Quite an interesting idea. It's crazy, but it just might work!"

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  1. Bochs, WINE, X-Windows... by Llywelyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, is this a conspiracy to make Mac systems run more slowly?

    Cool idea, I wish them the best, but I like apps to load within my lifetime...

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  2. spend all that money by thinkpol · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. to get a computer that DOESN'T run windows. One that is faster, more secure, runs a more stable OS and is more powerful, just so that you can emulate a PC so it's slower, and less stable. Weird.

  3. Re:This will be really slow by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 5, Funny

    there's no code in wine that simulates the processor/real hardware

    True that, but what about other solutions for running PC software on your Power Mac G5?

  4. Just Goes To Show... by Flwyd · · Score: 4, Funny

    All problems in Computer Science can be solved by adding another layer of indirection.

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  5. some people by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    will do anything to play minesweeper.

  6. Re:Lemme get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, at least for Adobe Illustrator, even better would have been to buy the box that said "for Mac OS X" in the first place.

  7. Looks like your average OS project by Lars+T. · · Score: 2, Funny

    The To Do list shows 15 tasks, one guy working on 4 (one finnished), one on another, and 3 working on the most important one: Improving the Webpage. The rest has yet to be assigned.

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  8. How about me? by blackmonday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone know when WINE is getting ported to Windows?

  9. Re:This will be really slow by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So it's (a) WINE-Bochs?

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  10. Re:This will be really slow by Llywelyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    >I have to say that I'm happy - I can keep on using XP. ....and thus getting what he richly deserves for that crime against nature.

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