Early wine history

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Dec 19 12:58:01 CST 2007


"Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel.com> writes:

> The first message I found contemplating it was dated 1 Jun 1993,
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/0a7c3867abdb4a76
> Is that about the right estimate for Wine's birthday?

The 0.0.2 release was on June 29, and 0.0.1 was about a week before
that IIRC. I don't have the exact date unfortunately.

> A roughly 1995 writeup about Wine is at
> http://www.softlookup.com/tutorial/redhat/rhl58.asp
> It has a screen shot of a game Pipe Dream running under
> Wine.  I just checked; the game is still online at
> http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/pipe1.htm
> and runs well on today's wine :-)

Hehe, I remember spending lots of time playing, I mean testing that
game...

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Alexandre Julliard
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