windows-games in wineX, linux on a macG3 (bw)?

Christopher Murtagh yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Apr 24 06:36:01 2002


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Andreas Lindkvist wrote:
>I just wonder if I can run WineX in my ydl on my macintoshG3 (bw) and
>play windowsgaems like halflife/counterstrike ?

 Unfortunately, no. Wine doesn't emulate an Intel CPU (like Virtual PC
does) as it was designed to run on one, it simply mimics/uses Windoze APIs
to run Windoze programs.  This is the same for Mac-On-Linux that will only
run on PPC hardware.

Cheers,

Chris

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