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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0-RC6-Released https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0... Here is a partial list

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0-RC6-Released https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0... Here is a partial list of fixed games.

jandrese 7y ago
> Some of the fixes in Wine 5.0-RC6 are for Brothers In Arms - Hell's Highway, Tomb Raider, The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Serious Sam Classic, and other games. There are also fixes for applications like 7-Zip, Acrobat Reader, and Pale Moon. That's a really short list. Hopefully there are no regressions on other games to cancel out the progress. That said, I've been pretty happy with Proton. More games work than don't, although if the game you like is kind of obscure the chances of it working do drop off. Also some games outright check if they're running under Wine and refuse to run, like Roblox.
- jhoward321 7y ago
  That's only the changes from that particular release candidate. If you go look at the other RC changelists you'll see the actual list is much larger
- takeda 7y ago
  This is not MAME, it emulates API of an OS that has very large amount of software it runs. I think the titles listed are ones that developers concentrated specifically on (also another person below mentioned that it was only relevant to this RC) to make them work, it's very likely that much more software was fixed.
  - slantyyz 7y ago
    > it emulates API of an OS that has very large amount of software it runs I thought WINE stood for Wine Is Not an Emulator - has that changed?
    - mikepurvis 7y ago
      It's supposed to be an API translation layer. So there's no VM, no interpreting of machine code, none of the usual "emulation stuff." Running a Windows binary on Linux via WINE is your x86 processor directly executing the real x86 machine code, just with a compatibility layer providing equivalents whenever the binary tries to call Windows or DirectX APIs. WSL1 did the same thing in reverse, though WSL2 abandoned that course and does in fact use virtualization.
      - als0 7y ago
        I find the change in direction particularly interesting. Intuitively, virtualization would have been one of the first and easier suggestions for any system. But they decided to take on the monumental task of implementing a translation layer. It’s probably not their first time either since they did support POSIX in some old versions of Windows. Then they switched to virtualization. I’m guessing it was simply not a sustainable effort? Still a bold move and an interesting part of Windows history.
        my123 7y ago
        They had to use the syscall translation path because of the earlier plans. WSL is what could be saved from the Astoria subsystem to run Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile, with the ARM virtualization story being nonexistent at the time for shipping smartphone SoCs.
        mikepurvis 7y ago
        If you're interested, the Build talk where WSL2 was introduced is pretty in-depth and does a great job of talking about the motivation. See starting around this point: https://youtu.be/lwhMThePdIo?t=1070 https://youtu.be/lwhMThePdIo?t=1070
    - sp332 7y ago
      It emulates the OS, not the CPU or other hardware. So it's not what you'd expect if you wanted "an emulator", like DOSBox. But there's still some "emulation" going on.
- simion314 7y ago
  >That's a really short list. Hopefully there are no regressions on other games to cancel out the progress. The best solution is to use a GUI manager and you can have each game with it's own wine copy with different versions and configurations.
- vanous 7y ago
  Maybe the list is short, but even just having Acrobat Reader (for its 3D capsbilities, which unfortunately cannot be substituted by any software in Linux), would be a great.
  - Zardoz84 7y ago
    3d for reading PDFs ? I would keep using Okular, that is blazing faster.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0-RC6-Released https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0... Here is a partial list of fixed games.

jandrese 7y ago

> Some of the fixes in Wine 5.0-RC6 are for Brothers In Arms - Hell's Highway, Tomb Raider, The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Serious Sam Classic, and other games. There are also fixes for applications like 7-Zip, Acrobat Reader, and Pale Moon. That's a really short list. Hopefully there are no regressions on other games to cancel out the progress. That said, I've been pretty happy with Proton. More games work than don't, although if the game you like is kind of obscure the chances of it working do drop off. Also some games outright check if they're running under Wine and refuse to run, like Roblox.

jhoward321 7y ago
That's only the changes from that particular release candidate. If you go look at the other RC changelists you'll see the actual list is much larger
takeda 7y ago
This is not MAME, it emulates API of an OS that has very large amount of software it runs. I think the titles listed are ones that developers concentrated specifically on (also another person below mentioned that it was only relevant to this RC) to make them work, it's very likely that much more software was fixed.
- slantyyz 7y ago
  > it emulates API of an OS that has very large amount of software it runs I thought WINE stood for Wine Is Not an Emulator - has that changed?
  - mikepurvis 7y ago
    It's supposed to be an API translation layer. So there's no VM, no interpreting of machine code, none of the usual "emulation stuff." Running a Windows binary on Linux via WINE is your x86 processor directly executing the real x86 machine code, just with a compatibility layer providing equivalents whenever the binary tries to call Windows or DirectX APIs. WSL1 did the same thing in reverse, though WSL2 abandoned that course and does in fact use virtualization.
    - als0 7y ago
      I find the change in direction particularly interesting. Intuitively, virtualization would have been one of the first and easier suggestions for any system. But they decided to take on the monumental task of implementing a translation layer. It’s probably not their first time either since they did support POSIX in some old versions of Windows. Then they switched to virtualization. I’m guessing it was simply not a sustainable effort? Still a bold move and an interesting part of Windows history.
      - my123 7y ago
        They had to use the syscall translation path because of the earlier plans. WSL is what could be saved from the Astoria subsystem to run Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile, with the ARM virtualization story being nonexistent at the time for shipping smartphone SoCs.
      - mikepurvis 7y ago
        If you're interested, the Build talk where WSL2 was introduced is pretty in-depth and does a great job of talking about the motivation. See starting around this point: https://youtu.be/lwhMThePdIo?t=1070 https://youtu.be/lwhMThePdIo?t=1070
  - sp332 7y ago
    It emulates the OS, not the CPU or other hardware. So it's not what you'd expect if you wanted "an emulator", like DOSBox. But there's still some "emulation" going on.
simion314 7y ago
>That's a really short list. Hopefully there are no regressions on other games to cancel out the progress. The best solution is to use a GUI manager and you can have each game with it's own wine copy with different versions and configurations.
vanous 7y ago
Maybe the list is short, but even just having Acrobat Reader (for its 3D capsbilities, which unfortunately cannot be substituted by any software in Linux), would be a great.
- Zardoz84 7y ago
  3d for reading PDFs ? I would keep using Okular, that is blazing faster.