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[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:47 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2011 02:49, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:55 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Open source and royalty free: http://www.winehq.org/
>
>> How's the Windows port coming along? :¬)
>
>
> Wine compiles in Cygwin, and you can run some of the included
> applications! The program loader would need a complete rewrite to work
> in Windows and run your apps in Wine rather than Windows itself.
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows
>
> The excuse is that it could run stuff in Windows that Windows doesn't any more.
>
> The real reason, of course, is that it's obviously bad and wrong,
> therefore has hack value.

At first, I was scared, I was petrif- no, hang on.

At first, I was *amused*, as this seemed like a fun notion. Not much
didn't run on XP that would run on older NT, for instance, and I
didn't expect a lot of DOS/Win9x stuff to work if it needed VxDs.

But actually, I'm finding a fair bit of clean Win32 stuff won't run on
Win7/64. Office 95 won't install or run correctly, for instance. And
of course /no/ Win16 or DOS executables run at /all/ on Win/64.

So I am beginning to see an actual use for this.

I would have no complaints about typing (or making a shortcut) that said:

c:\progra~1\wineow\wine c:\progra~1\office95\winword.exe %1

or something like that - or is the loader issue more complex than that?

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