NEON3569 said:I know that many people do not want to hear it, but i have a question about the pandora Operating System, will it be possible to run Win XP on it or something else?
I´m sorry about my english, but i am a German.
mkinzler said:Wine just emulates an windows core. You need an windows installation and Windows is compilied for x86.
peca said:Actually, somewhere on old forum ( http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showforum=61 ) I read similiar thread about wine on Pandora. Yes, it is not work now. But IIRC WINE is capable translating x86 instruction to other platform if this translation will be implemented. Something that run on SUN's stations provide Windows "emulation". I'm afraid, but I can't recall it exactly, so someone good skilled in search and tech, can search old forum or WINE documentation
Oh, for Germans with low English language skill, can be useful use the German forum: Pandora und GP2X Forum * Foren-Übersicht
The Darwine project intends to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications. There are two major phases to this project.
The first phase is the port of Wine to Darwin/PowerPC with X11 (XFree86).
While the basic compatibility is there as Darwin is largely FreeBSD, there is the hurdle of its Mach kernel which uses the Mach-O format rather than ELF. This part has been achived with success. It means that WineLib is now working on Mac OS X, and that developers should be able to recompile their Win32 Apps using WineLib and make them work in Mac OS X.
The second phase is to then integrate in WINE the QEMU binary translator.
Additional supporting tools for launching Windows applications from the desktop and an integrated installer are desireable items for the package (like OpenOffice is doing).
This is distinguished from simply using QEMU to run Windows because there is no Windows here. Just WINE and QEMU to run Windows applications directly under X. That will enable vastly better performance, better integration, and easier administration.