Wine 4.20 - Hackdot

Re:Wine 4.20 by ur-whale on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:19AM (#21558269)

What has always amazed me about the Wine project his how they have continued, unphazed, to fight was they knew from the beginning to be a losing battle (tracking an ever changing, ever growing API with no proper documentation of what the API actually does, especially wrt side-effects) all the way to something that is actually usable.

I would even venture to wager that in 20 years, the only way to run certain old Windoze binaries will on top of Wine because the proprietary mountain of crap that is the Windows commercial API offering will have fully fossilized and been dissolved by the winds of time.

Kudos, I am truly in awe of this project.

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Re:Wine 4.20 by mike_hock on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:50AM (#21558415)

Already the case with some old Windows games.

It's quite an achievement of the project to be able to run such a large amount of Windows software, but if you're trying to run a particular program, it's still pretty hit or miss (then again it's increasingly hit or miss with recent Windows versions and old software, too).

It's not always Windows' or Wine's fault though, often it's blatant misuse of the API that just happened to work on some old Windows version.

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Re:Wine 4.20 by gizmo686 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @11:03AM (#21558479)

My employer runs our payroll software on WINE because they already can't get it to work on modern Windows.

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Re:Wine 4.20 by whateveracct on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:58PM (#21559371)

Very cool and in a way sensible - old Windows isn't a moving target anymore, so WINE is in a perfect position to be the solution there.

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