Darwine
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| Developed by | Darwine Project |
| Latest release | 0.9.46 / 2006-12-16 |
| OS | Mac OS X, Darwin |
| Genre | compatibility layer |
| License | GPL/LGPL |
| Website | http://darwine.sourceforge.net |
Darwine is a port of the Wine libraries to Darwin and Mac OS X.
Darwine was originally intended to support compiling of Win32 source into Mach-O/PowerPC binaries for Macintosh computers. The project is now combining Wine's program loader with QEMU, an x86 emulator, to allow running of Win32 binaries on Mac OS X for PowerPC.
However, Darwine's focus shifted due to the Apple Intel transition. Darwine on new x86 Macintosh computers can run Windows programs (if compatible with Wine) natively - resulting in speeds comparable to Mac specific programs.
Currently the project is dead, most of the development having been folded into Wine.
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[edit] Known flaws
- Right Click emulation does not work properly.
- Any flaw that Wine sources may happen to contain.
[edit] See also
- CrossOver Mac, a proprietary software package that uses Wine to run Windows applications on a Mac.
[edit] Screenshots
 WinZip on Darwine |
 Microsoft Paint on Darwine |
