I was trying to develop user mode windows on base of wine. I was linking my x86 simulator with wine so that I can have a JAVA like virtual windows environment. the didderence is JVM understands jasva byte code, my virtual windows understands x86 instructions. I knew darwine was going to do the same thing. the difference is darwine depends on qemu. I don't use qemu. my questions: why darwine moved forward so slowly. is it stupid to do it?
On 10/17/10 5:53 PM, bacchus wrote:> I was trying to develop user mode windows on base of wine. > > I was linking my x86 simulator with wine so that I can have a JAVA like virtual windows environment. the didderence is JVM understands jasva byte code, my virtual windows understands x86 instructions. > > I knew darwine was going to do the same thing. the difference is darwine depends on qemu. I don't use qemu. > > my questions: why darwine moved forward so slowly. > is it stupid to do it?Darwine appears to be dead. No progress for about four years. Don't know who is maintaining the sourceforge.net site. It was to allow x86 Windows programs to be run on the PowerPC platform. Since Apple adopted Intel processors, the value of this project was greatly diminished. James McKenzie> > > > >
Darwine was moving along decently... then Apple switched to x86 processors and the project tried to switch over to being x86... but it just died off cuz PPC was on the way out and it all seemed like a waste of time.
will apple be the only company that is interested in running windows applications on non-x86 architecture? my important favoriate applications : ultraedit, winrar have linux build. 1)if most legacy windows applications are recompiled for linux. 2)if Microsoft switched to ARM. do we still need to go on developing darwine?
bacchus wrote:> do we still need to go on developing darwine?You asking the wrong crowd. Most people here have x86 hardware. The only few who had old PPC macs are now repurposed them for something else or got an x86 mac. Besides darwine was a totally separate project from Wine.
yes, PPC is being phased out.... it was ever a hot chip for embedded system. but freescale is still developing it. I am interested in ARM. i have been bored of x86 desktop. if ARM wen to desktop. we would look for solution to run legacy windows app.