Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Darwine, Run Windows apps without Windows. The Popular app WINE is being ported to Mac OS X
Posted on MacBytes.com
Approved by arn
Is the Darwin/Mac OS X release of Wine currently able to run Windows executable (.exe)?
No. We are today working on integrating an x86 emulator in wine in order to run Win32 exe on a PowerPC Box. But on Darwin-x86 Win32 exe should run within wine.
Bochs is about 270 times slower than native code on integer code. QEMU is about 65 times faster than Bochs
the wine project allows you run windows apps on linux by mimicking the windows system calls (basically, a program sends the windows command for drawing a scroll bar and wine draws the according linux scroll bar). this only works on x86 because windows apps are compiled for x86 so no processor emulation is needed. darwine is at the point where you can compile the source code of some windows programs to run on the mac (since they're compiled for the ppc and can use the wine libraries). once the qemu layer is added, the x86 processor can be emulated and the windows calls will be handled by wine, so you will be able to run windows native .exe files on the mac. this is still a good ways off.Originally posted by MrMacman
I have no idea what this product is, meh!
Originally posted by FattyMembrane
the wine project allows you run windows apps on linux by mimicking the windows system calls (basically, a program sends the windows command for drawing a scroll bar and wine draws the according linux scroll bar). this only works on x86 because windows apps are compiled for x86 so no processor emulation is needed. darwine is at the point where you can compile the source code of some windows programs to run on the mac (since they're compiled for the ppc and can use the wine libraries). once the qemu layer is added, the x86 processor can be emulated and the windows calls will be handled by wine, so you will be able to run windows native .exe files on the mac. this is still a good ways off.