Darwine 1.0

Firefox 3 was a pretty historic release this week, but I'd say that Wine 1.0 might actually beat it -- the open source non-emulator (Wine, after all, Is Not an Emulator) for Windows finally reached their first stable release. And Darwine, the OS X-rated version of Wine, also got a shiny 1.0 designation as well. It still won't work exactly perfectly (you've got to have XQuartz installed, and as with all emulators, there are so many different systems trying to talk to each other that you're bound to run into problems when one of them wants to do something complicated), but for standard Windows apps (Solitare and Spider Solitaire, we're told, work beautifully), it'll do ya.

Of course, we have no idea why you'd want to run anything Windows (ahem), but we won't judge. It's your computer: do what you like.

Thanks, Luigi193!

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Glen Warner

That link to "Darwine" is old and pretty much dead. Seems the guys trying to port Wine to the PPC platform gave up! Too bad ....

In the meantime, if you're on an Intel-based Mac, go here:

http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine

Mike Kronenberg has added a few things to this implementation of Wine 1.0 that make this one a must-have. You can read what was added here:

http://mike.kronenberg.org/?p=84

--gdw

June 22 2008 at 9:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Toren

I've downloaded several different things in the past hour trying to get this thing to run. Can anyone offer any help or advice? All I need to be able to do is run a fairly new version of IE, whether it be 6 or 7. Is this doable? I'm on a Mac Pro 10.5.3.

I already downloaded Darwine 1.0 and that seems to work... but the IE that comes in the Program Files folder doesn't really work. Please help!

June 20 2008 at 3:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Bootes

http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

June 20 2008 at 1:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Toren

That was perfect!!

But......

Do you know if I can get JAVA to run in the X11 IE?

June 26 2008 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Althanis

Aethelwolf, you still play Myth II? On what server do you play it?

June 20 2008 at 1:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I used this link to get 1.0:

http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

June 20 2008 at 12:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luigi193

LOL TUAW used my Solitaire joke!!!

June 19 2008 at 10:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zach

XQuartz is just an updated version of X11. Even the kronenberg builds require X11.

June 19 2008 at 9:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I prefer http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/

No need for xquartz.

June 19 2008 at 9:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Geoff

WINE Is Not an Emulator.

June 19 2008 at 9:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremyapp

How is this any different than Crossover?

Hasn't CodeWeavers been offering a GUI'd version of this for years?

June 19 2008 at 9:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Bootes

This is free, this is what crossover is based on, and this came before crossover. It's just announcing the new version, 1.0 so it's not beta anymore.

June 20 2008 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Heather

Still, there are MANY ways to do Win programs on Intel macs, but nothing really for PPC systems (still quite a few of them out there) except old copies of Virtual PC.
And no reasonably priced replacements for flexible systems like the PowerMac G4 dual, Mac Mini isn't flexible and the MAC Pro ($2800 and up) isn't reasonable yet ...

Ah well ....

June 19 2008 at 9:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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matt

How about downloading Darwine?

It works on PowerPC.

June 21 2008 at 1:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Heather

According to the wiki ...
Currently the Darwine project is dead, most of the development having been folded into Wine.

June 21 2008 at 5:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply