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Wine for Amiga is as confusing as Windows Subsystem for Linux. I thought it would be a port of Wine for the Amiga but it's instead something to run Amiga softwa
by Narishma 10mo ago
Wine for Amiga is as confusing as Windows Subsystem for Linux. I thought it would be a port of Wine for the Amiga but it's instead something to run Amiga software on PC.
- ahartmetz 10mo agoIt also makes even less sense than the Wine name. "Wine is not an emulator" - but it is! It's an API emulator, not an instruction set emulator. "Wine for Amiga" is an emulator in both senses.
- petterroea 10mo agoMy favorite piece of trivia is that main.c of the wine loader actually calls itself "emulator initialisation code" :D https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/loader/main.c#L2 https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/loader/main....
- Wowfunhappy 10mo agoI guess a better description would be “Wine for Amiga software”.
- easyThrowaway 10mo agoIIRC Amiga Forever by Cloanto already did something similar?
- mras0 10mo agoAmiga Forever is a distribution of software (Amiga ROMs and OS disks) and a full system emulator: CPU, custom chips (graphics/sound/..) etc. It allows you to emulate various Amiga systems completely. vAmos is just CPU and an embedded ROM/OS replacement that does just enough to run (some) AmigaOS command line programs. The primary use case is for cross-development (running Amiga compilers/tools, testing simple stuff, etc.) without having to boot a full system emulator for each command and better integration with e.g. host-side Makefiles. With the vAmos=WINE analogy, Amiga Forever=VirtualBox/VMWare.
- doener 10mo agoThe official name of this software is vamos - virtual Amiga OS.
- metadope 10mo agoSi habla español: Let's go!
- layer8 10mo agoBeing preceded by “virtual AmigaOS runtime”, I somehow had no trouble understanding it.