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I SO expected this to be about the basics of wine making (the beverage) and kind of let me down after opening the link. Please somebody make wine-making 101
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>A lot of games, Red Alert 2 off the top of my head. Never got it running even in compatibility mode and changing the bit depth. Mate, I played Red Alert 2 off the original 1999(?) ISO last month on my Windows 11 installation. I had to copy some missing deprecated Direct Draw DLLs that don't ship with modern Windows anymore and everything worked. If you would have Googled the issue, you would have found tons of forum…
> You can't expect modern Windows to ship 20+ year old DLLs that allow running Windows 98 APIs as that's a major security vulnerability since older APIs had direct hardware/memory access without any kind of checks and balances. That doesn't make sense. If those old DLLs could bypass some security protections in Windows than that would be still a major vulnerability in recent Windows itself.
> Fifth, oh, did you want to run a game? Not just a hello world? Then you need to deal with DirectX, audio (hello PulseAudio, my old friend), input devices (gamepads, joysticks), etc. It’s a lot of work! These last paragraphs just made me realise how grateful I am to people who work on these open source projects without expecting any compensation or even praise for their work. It has happened once or twice that I tri…
I think it's reasonable to expect both, even if indirectly. Participating in a well-organized open source project confers extremely rich experience, and employers do take notice. In my company, the folks who spent time in the community generally noticeably out-perform the ones who grew up exclusively in industry (which should trouble industry) at similar years of experience. If you want to end up highly-compensated, it's a great way to spend your time.
The real challenge for the open source community is how hard it still is to make a living sticking to the original open source work, instead of taking your talent and leaving one day. Wine is one of a few exceptions with some companies in its ecosystem, but generally speaking there's not enough upstream-work jobs for a lot of important open source software infrastructure.
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I think GP just meant that it can be ambiguous which one is meant (especially in the context of headlines like this); I'd imagine that even if it were always cased WINE it would still be pretty easily associated with the drink.
The only annoying part of the name is getting beverage-related search results when looking up error messages; but upper-casing it would probably not help much there.
I thought I was going to get an explanation of why so many guys pay tons of money for fermented grape juice that tastes worse than just regular grape juice.
What I'm curious about (and probably there are some good write ups about this somewhere) that how come modern Linux and modern Wine is better to run old Windows applications than modern Windows (7 to some extent but mostly 10&11). Did MS "intentionally" "left behind" certain APIs and system calls to sacrifice it for some greater good? Like I use Windows every day and have no problems at all. And I use Linux every day…
One big thing for games is that Microsoft swapped out older DirectX libraries to be fairly poor emulations/translations instead of being handled directly by the graphics card. You can get better translation/emulation libraries that you can swap in to an application, like dgVoodo2 that can improve things hugely (but unfortunately buggy with some games). I think Wine's translation is also much better than Microsoft's f…
What I'm curious about (and probably there are some good write ups about this somewhere) that how come modern Linux and modern Wine is better to run old Windows applications than modern Windows (7 to some extent but mostly 10&11). Did MS "intentionally" "left behind" certain APIs and system calls to sacrifice it for some greater good? Like I use Windows every day and have no problems at all. And I use Linux every day…
what old windows programs from Vista/XP/2000 can't you run on Windows 11? It has "compatibility mode", just select properties on the program and select compatibility, and select the OS you want.
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https://github.com/darlinghq/darling but it's very early.
> but it's very early I thought I remember hearing about the project a long time ago. First commit of README is 2012.
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A lot of games, Red Alert 2 off the top of my head. Never got it running even in compatibility mode and changing the bit depth.
>A lot of games, Red Alert 2 off the top of my head. Never got it running even in compatibility mode and changing the bit depth. Mate, I played Red Alert 2 off the original 1999(?) ISO last month on my Windows 11 installation. I had to copy some missing deprecated Direct Draw DLLs that don't ship with modern Windows anymore and everything worked. If you would have Googled the issue, you would have found tons of forum…
> I had to copy some missing deprecated Direct Draw DLLs that don't ship with modern Windows anymore and everything worked.
You literally had to copy the ddraw DLL from the Wine project, thereby solidly proving the OP's point: Wine has these days better compatibility than Windows.
> You can't expect modern Windows to ship 20+ year old DLLs
One can excuse it however one sees fit but this shows that Windows has lost the backwards compatibility edge that it may once had.