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M51DPS:
What do people think about it? The 0.9.7 Developer Preview has recently been released, and it's popularity will probably take off very soon. Will it convert more people to Macintosh? Will it provide less incentive to create native programs?

For those not familiar, Darwine is a port of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to Mac OS X. It works by translating the Win32 API's, rather than an processor. In order to run on PPC systems instead of Intel based ones, it uses an emulator called QEMU in conjunction with Wine.

cymon:
It'll also be slower than a third grader in Calc II Honors and will continue the great Wine tradition of not working with certain apps.

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: cymon ---It'll also be slower than a third grader in Calc II Honors and will continue the great Wine tradition of not working with certain apps.
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 That is, considering that ANY layer between native-architecture APIs is going to slow the system down somewhat (ever see a bilingual translator tell someone who speaks English what someone is saying in Japanese, in realtime?  Didn't think so...) and is unlikely to work in every circumstance, particularly where proprietary classes with no open-source equivalents are utilised?

Aloone_Jonez:
It's quite paradoxic how Wine Is Not an Emulator but it requires and emulator to run on PPC.

Dark_Me:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---It's quite paradoxic how Wine Is Not an Emulator but it requires and emulator to run on PPC.
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I thought it would have been simple to figure out. WINE is designed to run on x86 arcitecture and therefor needs a emulator to run on PPC arcitecture. Unless API's aren't affected by arcitecture.

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