2 ms·
There are huge swaths of the Windows API that Wine straight up doesn't even try to implement, the complex APIs that a screen reader or driver would require to f
by miki123211 2y ago
There are huge swaths of the Windows API that Wine straight up doesn't even try to implement, the complex APIs that a screen reader or driver would require to function being good examples.
There's a good argument that implementing kernel-mode driver APIs would be a complete waste of time, after all, Wine is running on top of another operating system, which should be responsible for interfacing with hardware. However, what the Wine developers didn't foresee was the fact that some applications (mainly games) started requiring a driver to function as an anti-cheat feature.