[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Updated the screenshots page

[Bryan J. Smith]

From:  brad angelcyk 
> Well, his icon shortcut may be calling WINE itself.

The problem is that most WINE environments are seemless.
I.e., the load a daemon/kernel mod that registers the MZ filemagic as executable.
The execute bit typically still has to be set, but most WINE environments also blindly set that.

I personally use an alias with wine not in the PATH.
And for Cedega, it's self-contained in Point2Play.

> The smiley was pretty much just because it was on the desktop,
> right where it would be on Windows.

I know.

> I installed WINE on my Mac the other night,
> and it defaulted to automatically executing Windows binaries.

I rest my case.

> I just wanted to see if I could get Visual Studio running
> on it for the sake of being overly bored

VS will be next to impossible given its low-level of access.

Some of the Mono team runs VS.NET on real Win32 (even if virtualized with VMWare).

> (Minesweeper and Notepad ran fine,
> which surprised me since I am
on a G4 and not a X86).

WINE-RT translates Win32/GDI into GNU/X or similar.
Binary translation is also provided for IA-32 to PowerPC ISA.

> Now I have to find where WINE decided to
install the config files to
) (it didn't ask me).

Each user typically has their own, self-contained ~/.wine

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