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Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Wine 1.8.0 is now the latest stable release of Wine Is Not An Emulator and available from WineHQ.org. Wine 1.8 features include support for DirectWrite, Direct2D support, very limited Direct3D 11 support, simple application support of DIrect3D 10, support for process jobs, 64-bit architecture support on OS X, networking updates, and over 13,000 other individual changes.

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  1. Re:wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wine Is Not an Emulator (WINE) - subtly mentioned in the summary.

  2. Re:wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Uhhh, no:

    Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.

    About WINE

  3. Re:wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Nope it stands for Wine (recursive acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator)

  4. Re:wine by swillden · · Score: 2, Informative

    WINdows Emulator

    Nope. Wine isn't an emulator, it's a Windows compatibility layer.

    As https://www.winehq.org/about/ puts it: "Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop."

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  5. Re:Does it STILL USE X11 on OS X ?? by danomatika · · Score: 5, Informative

    If so, then it's a total non-starter period.

    Last time I tried wine on OS X was 3 or 4 years ago, and it wanted me to install X11, and I said screw this, I'll just run Windows in parallels.

    If you're not even going to make an attempt at writing a normal native app on OS X, then seriously, don't even bother, all you're doing is embarrassing yourselves and pissing off users by giving the false impression you've actually spent more than 5 seconds in OS X.

    I'd say maybe you should spend 5 seconds googling yourself ... There has been a native Mac driver since Wine 1.6: https://www.winehq.org/announc...

    I hadn't used Wine in a while either but installed Fallout 2 last night and played without X11/XQuartz. I just had to enable the mac driver as I don't think it's on by default.

  6. Re:Does it STILL USE X11 on OS X ?? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're not even going to make an attempt at writing a normal native app on OS X, then seriously, don't even bother, all you're doing is embarrassing yourselves and pissing off users by giving the false impression you've actually spent more than 5 seconds in OS X.

    I'm sure they are deeply embarrassed with themselves because some anonymous guy on the internet is whiny that free stuff he's not being forced to use isn't good enough.

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  7. Re:This is still a thing? by toddestan · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize that ReactOS relies heavily on Wine to implement a lot of the compatibility for the Windows API, right?