[Wine]Wine on Macs ?

[Mitchell Mebane]

It may be possible at some point, though. As I understand it, the 
long-term goal of the Darwine[1] project is to integrate Wine and QEMU 
to get x86 binaries running on PPCs.

[1] http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

--Mitchell Mebane


jurgen wrote:

> Short answer: nope.
>
> Wine doesn't emulate the Intel processor, it only tries to provide 
> Windows compatibility on Intel (and compatible) processors. Since Macs 
> use PowerPC CPUs, not Intel or AMD CPUs, it won't work for you. It 
> would be the equivalent of trying to install Windows on your Mac. It's 
> simply not designed to work there.
>
> ....jurgen
>
>
> On 25/05/05, *Andrew Neil Ramage* <nrsc16850 at blueyonder.co.uk 
> <mailto:nrsc16850 at blueyonder.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Now that MacOS is Unix-based, can Wine be run on them ?
>
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