--- Igor Izyumin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Igor Izyumin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dustin Navea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: WINE for PowerPC? > Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 08:18:42 -0600 > > On Saturday 02 November 2002 07:26 pm, Dustin Navea wrote: > > --- Adam Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry if this is off topic or doesn't belong here. I'm not a > > > developer (at least not in C) so I'll wait a few years while I learn C > > > before I come back and help you guys. But I was wondering... > > > > Ok, I dont want to sound rude, but you should be glad anyone is > replying... > > Its not really off-topic as there arent any set topics and it certainly > > doesnt not belong here. > > > > > What are the technical issues with putting WINE on the PowerPC? So > > > someday we could run WINE with native Windows apps on Linux for PPC or > > > even (!) the Macintosh? (Mac OS X is Unix based, so...) Is it feasible > > > to put a x86 emulator in there, so Win32 apps will think they're on a > > > standard x86 processor? > > > > Do you know all of the routines for an x86 processor? Neither do any of > us > > ;). If we put in x86 emulator in there then we need a hardware emulator > > also so that it translates the codes from x86 hardware codes to mac ones. > > > And the only hardware emulator I know of (even for x86) is vmware and it > > royally sux. > > Not really. It's not THAT difficult to emulate x86 - after all, many > emulators (like snes9x, snes9x.com) do the same thing with very > poorly-documented consoles. In fact, there IS an open-source x86 emulator > (Bochs, http://bochs.sourceforge.net/). > > The real challenge is making it efficient - the Super Nintendo runs at > about > 5MHz but requires a 300MHz processor to emulate it with decent speed. > Unless > you want your 800MHz Mac to perform like a 486, you will probably want a > more > efficient way to emulate it. This is a big challenge, and Wine quite > frankly > has bigger fish to fry. > > Besides, why would you want to run stuff under wine on the Mac? Virtual PC > is > much better for most things. If you really want to go 100% Windows-free, > you > could run Linux inside a Bochs session and run Wine on top of that. If you > > don't use MacOS on your Mac, just get an x86 PC - it will work better with > Linux anyway. > -- > -- Igor
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