Couldn't all ppc's use a little wine?

[R0B]

[sponge]

Mentioned this before on a thread where the Zaurus was mentioned, I'm not sure whether itd be a medium-easy job, or hard, ie a complete rewrite.

[andys]

[sponge]

I'm talking about the issue of porting, it might have to be completly rewritten.

[James S]

hrmm... maybe I'll purchase a Zaurus as my next PPC

[Matt Keys]

[Ertai]

[sponge]

[refractor]

Rob:

WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

WINE "only" implements the Windows environment (the APIs), and does not provide any level of emulation for the x86 processor.. which means that it only works on Unices running *on* a x86 CPU of some form. In theory, it could work on a code-morphing CPU like a Transmeta... but I digress. For something like a StrongARM, or even an XScale, forget WINE.

[refractor]

I got it backwards, didn't I? (In my defence, I moved flats yesterday and I'm thoroughly knackered).

You want to make a version of WINE for ARM Linux. That's at least feasible, IMO.

Cheers,

Ref.

[R0B]

Ok, I know that wine is not an emulator in a technical/computer sence. But if you examine the definition of emulation, then you will realize that what wine does can be considered emulation. The way it goes about it is completely different than how a normal emulator would, however, and therefore is not classified as an emu. It's just easier to say the windows emulator though, then give a long definition of what wine does. That makes you seem like a complete computer geek, whereas, "It emulates windows, kinda like that n64 emulator." makes you only a minor computer geek (and is also easier for many to understand the general principals about what wine can do).

[sponge]

[TFGBD]

I read something about a planned Linux machine that has a implementation of CE on Linux. Like they reverse enginered it. Something like WINE I guess.