Winuae "hidden" feature

[mtb]

I have recently discovered an "hidden" feature of winuae.

Unfortunatly only now that Richard Drummond has already done an update for non-windows users.

It doesn't work perfectly but it works with jit too, and i haven't yet tested virtual hd and hd on filesystem.

The speed is moreless the same ( +- 3 %, sometimes faster, sometimes slower than with windows xp )

[Enverex]

Er, what is the hidden feature?

[turk182]

I think he means that it works through Wine the linux Windowz emulator.

[andreas]

Thanks turk. You're so right. Needed a second glance on the pic until I spotted "it".

That's a "nice side-effect of WinUAE", not really a "feature", for Toni hasn't done anything special to make this program work under Wine
It just works - by coincidence & pure luck.

No wonder this thread title has attracted so many readers.

[mtb]

Originally Posted by turk182

I think he means that it works through Wine the linux Windowz emulator.

Well you are right .

And as Andreas said, Toni hasn't done anything special to make this program work under Wine, but it works fine and i think nobody else has tried to run it under Wine ( i have tried after having reported a success running a modern pc demo at the same speed of windows native ), and i suppose there are other people interested in this feature.

Also i'm impressed that wine, as reported in its docs ( but before trying it i was really dubious ), can run a lot of software at moreless the same speed of windows.

[Chuckles]

Of course, running WinUAE under Wine is actually an emulation running within an emulation, as already mentioned. If Wine emulates Windows accurately enough, then that would let you do one more level of nested emulations than what I've ever managed before. For folks running linux, you could then run:

Windows (emulated by Wine)
Amiga (emulated by WinUAE underneath Wine)
Mac (emulated by Shapeshifter underneath WinUAE)
Apple II (emulated by Stop the Madness under Shapeshifter)

The true nerd in me just LOVES doing stuff like this!

[Mr Creosote]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Of course, running WinUAE under Wine is actually an emulation running within an emulation, as already mentioned. If Wine emulates Windows accurately enough, then that would let you do one more level of nested emulations than what I've ever managed before.

Wine Is Not an Emulator

[Chuckles]

Close enough for me, as it is running one OS under another, which isn't altogether different in nature.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Close enough for me, as it is running one OS under another, which isn't altogether different in nature.

It's wrapping Windows OS calls to Linux calls. Not an emulator, but a wrapper.

[turk182]

Yes , Sorry I knew that & should have mentioned It.
But I sometimes forget how pedantic people get on this forum

[Chuckles]

Originally Posted by Jope

It's wrapping Windows OS calls to Linux calls. Not an emulator, but a wrapper.

Well, that essentially makes it a "translator" rather than an emulator, but so long as it lets you run Windows apps without Windows, that's the main thing that counts. I'll have to check it out if I ever find myself playing around with Linux.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Well, that essentially makes it a "translator" rather than an emulator, but so long as it lets you run Windows apps without Windows, that's the main thing that counts. I'll have to check it out if I ever find myself playing around with Linux.

Yeah.. :-)

I guess the guys who created WINE are more uptight about it's non-emulatorness (seeing they named it with a recursive acronym about it :-D)..

Wine's come a long way since when it was born, it's surprisingly good nowadays.