Index: templates/en/myths.template =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/lostwages/templates/en/myths.template,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 myths.template --- templates/en/myths.template 3 Jan 2006 21:58:34 -0000 1.12 +++ templates/en/myths.template 2 Feb 2006 17:34:13 -0000 @@ -163,24 +163,21 @@ supported Windows 3.1 applications. Anyway, almost no-one used Windows NT in that time anyway.
-But these days are long gone. The Windows 3.1 support may still be more -complete than that of the Win32 API but most of the development nowadays -happens for the Win32 API. Furthermore I should point out two more -things. First, it seems people complaining about Wine supporting only -Windows 3.1 usually do not realize that Wine also includes some support -for the DOS API. That's because a non negligible percentage of Windows -3.1 and even Windows 9x applications still make calls to the DOS -interrupts! Second, Winelib only supports the Win32 API. The Win16 header -files (necessary for compiling a Win16 application) have been moved out -of the way to simplify development. So in some way the Win32 API is -better supported than the Win16 one. -
-So currently Wine does not support the Win64 API at all. But the Wine -team does take Win64 into account when making architectural decisions. -In fact we'll probably see history repeating itself: the Win64 API has -not been released in a commercial product yet, so no-one is using it -anyway. So I can predict that when it becomes widespread we'll see Wine -developers starting to work on supporting it. +But these days are long gone. Since August 2005, Wine advertises its version +as Windows 2000, and for several years before this it was Windows 98, so really +Win32 is the primary thing Wine supports. Support for Windows 3.1 applications +is still around, of course, as is some support for DOS applications. +
+Win64 support would allow Wine to run native Windows 64-bit executables, and +as of February 2006, Wine does not yet have this support. That's okay, since +there are very few commercially available Win64 applications. One exception, +Unreal Tournament 2004, is available in a native Linux 64-bit version, so +nobody (except maybe a Wine hacker) should want to run the Windows version +anyway. +
+This doesn't mean that Wine will not work on 64-bit systems. It does. See +this entry in the +Wine Wiki for more info.