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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. This will be really slow by NanoWit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason we haven't seen WINE off of x86 yet is because like the name says "Wine Is Not an Emulator". So there's no code in wine that simulates the processor/real hardware. Bochs was just pitifully slow the few times that I used it. This won't have any kind of speed

  2. Re:wwwwoooorrrrrkkkkk by forsetti · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, this might work out OK -- from their site, Bochs is going to be stripped down (no interface, no SDL, etc) and /just/ provide x86 emulation -- sort of like a software processor. Yes, it will not provide native speed, but it might just be "good enough"....

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    10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!