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Apps That Officially Support Wine
David Gerard writes "Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Dan Kegel on the wine-users mailing list/forum has started gathering apps that declare Wine a supported platform. And there's now a Wine Support Honor Roll page on the Wine wiki. We need more apps that work with Wine stating that they consider it a supported platform. If you write Win32 open source or shareware, please open yourself to the wider market!"
>his statement was an hyperbole meant to poke fun of Windows Vista
That may be what he intended, but what it comes across as is yet another knee-jerk hillbilly comment about Vista from somebody who probably never runs it, or runs it very little. It was possibly funny maybe the first 27000 times someone in Slashdot said something like that, but now its just silly and childish, and rapidly diminishes my interest in anything else the author had to say.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Did you even read the link? Maybe my summary? This guy says that targeting Mac and Linux made him a bunch of money -- apparently much more than the cost of porting. He claims it doubled to tripled his sales. His numbers. His game. Not my imagination. This only works for independents, not big name games.
Porting is a lot easier if game devs stick to Windows APIs supported by Winelib. Then it's a re-compile and some tweaking.
Oh, and diet sodas appear to be doing quite well in the market. I don't get your comment at all.
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Next, you'll be telling FreeBSD to drop the Linux-compatibility layer.
Wine is always seen as a bridge. Having developers officially support their applications when running under Wine is just another platform available to them, not double-think. Winelib used to be more important than running Windows binaries using Wine, but that changed in the 90s. The hope was that having more commercial applications available would knock down barriers to adoption.
That's happened in some cases, but not in the general case.
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