Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears

Oddscurity writes "According to The Inquirer someone managed to write a wrapper allowing DirectX 10 applications to run on platforms other than Vista. The Alky Project claims to have reverse-engineered Geometry Shader code, allowing Windows games to run on Windows XP, MacOSX and Linux. The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to ascertain whether or not it's a hoax."

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Why WINE is wasted effort

[aztektum]

I will probably get modded into oblivion for the subject alone, but hear me out...

I think WINE is a waste of effort on the part of the development team. Not to say they haven't done some really cool things, but to me, hacking together a system to run Windows apps on Linux seems counter-intuitive to the whole IDEA of Linux/OSS/FSF and the vast community of supporters.

So you can run Outlook, IE, some games or whatever, from a community that gripes about innovation, that isn't all that striking an accomplishment to me. By doing so the message, to me at least, to developers of "Windows Only Software" is "Go ahead, make Windows software instead of Linux native apps. We'll show you. We'll just run it in WINE!" Way to go, you just validated their business plan/model. They have no reason to make a Linux native app.

These DX10 guys and WINE and the Cedega people... Why do you want Linux to be seen as a "Me too!" platform? If the effort in these projects was spent creating Linux native applications that blew Windows software away, Linux would achieve broader acceptance more quickly and MS would sh_t themselves.

Again I am not trying to limit the impact of these projects, but it just doesn't make sense to me anymore.