Early wine history

[Dan Kegel]

winehq.org doesn't seem to have a link to the message
that launched the wine project, so I went looking.

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?

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 :-)