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