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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!"

4 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

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

    will do anything to play minesweeper.

  4. 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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