Wine being described as the “ Not an Emulator” Emulator…Does that sort of make sense now? Programs running in Wine can interact with the Linux environment. You can cut and paste from Wine Windows to Linux Windows – and back. Wine is part of the Linux Desktop Manager. The program “sees” a Windows file system even though the actual file system is far different.īecause the code of the Windows program natively runs in a Windows API and on your computer’s processor, the program will run very nearly as fast on Wine as if it were running in Windows. The program sees standard Windows APIs for video, sound and networking. With Wine what the program “sees” is a Modern Windows PC, without a single bit of actual Microsoft code involved. There are versions of DOSbox for post-DOS Windows (NT and later) and Linux because those old DOS games can’t run on either. What the game or program “sees” is a standard DOS PC with Emulated old hardware with the old graphics cards (Tandy, Hercules, VESA) and antique sound cards like the original SoundBlaster or Gravis Ultra Sound. DOSbox allows you to run DOS applications like old games in a Emulated Environment. Wine is not an Emulator like DOSbox is, for example. So I went to the source: WineHQ to look it up.
What is Wine and why is Wine “Not an Emulator”? I use Wine to run a Windows application that is a better fit for my purposes than what’s available for Linux.
