Re: Wine

["Lorenzo De Vito" <lorenzodevito@libero.it>]

A very strange way to run Windows on Linux...emulate MacOS on Linux then run
VirtualPC on it and install Windows with VirtualPC.
Terrible !!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilhelm Fitzpatrick" <rafial@well.com>
To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Wine


> > [OFFTOPIC] Is there a Mac emulation layer similar to wine?
>
> Not similar to WINE (at least as free software).  There is MOL
> (Mac-On-Linux) which is similar vmware, in that it allows you to boot
> MacOS on top of a virtual machine environment hosted inside linux. This
> will only work on a PowerPC processor.
>
> There is a commercial company that makes a products called Executor, that
> is an emulation of the Mac Toolbox API's along with the a 68k processor
> emulator that allows running MacOS binaries (at least those compiled for
> 68k) on Windows and Linux.   I don't know if they have a PPC Linux
> version, or only x86.
>
> Finally, there was vMac, which was a project to create Boch's like
> environment for hosting 68k MacOS, which has gone pretty dormant.  It'll
> book System7 on an emulated Mac Plus, but it is very slow.
>
> -raf
>
>
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