PowerPC MacOSX work...

Gert van den Berg wine-devel at mohag.net
Mon May 25 14:52:53 CDT 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:44, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> The main trouble is that Windows apps are x86, so in order to run anything but
> builtin notepad you'll need a CPU emulator. In that case, just compile wine
> as x86 binary and run it in the emulator as well.
>
Just a random question: Any chance that PowerPC Windows apps might
work on a PPC Wine build?

A PowerPC port of Windows NT (3.51 and 4 according to Wikipedia)
briefly existed.... Don't know if any apps more than those bundled
with Windows existed. (Here's one: http://www.jmcgowan.com/ppc.html )

Gert



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