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2013/08/28 - Blockland has been greenlit!
Acerblock:
--- Quote from: PowerDag on September 14, 2013, 10:02:32 AM ---doesn't wine (try to) emulate windows programs
wouldn't that make it an emulator
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No, it doesn't emulate applications.
Bacon Pancakes:
--- Quote from: Mr. Jelly on September 11, 2013, 06:59:53 PM ---Hopefully Blockland on Steam will solve that incredibly annoying thing when Blockland stops responding because reasons and then you can't even close the loving window sometimes and now I have to goddamn restart the loving computer hfdsiudsdsio
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you feel my pain :cookieMonster:
Kingdaro:
--- Quote from: PowerDag on September 14, 2013, 10:02:32 AM ---doesn't wine (try to) emulate windows programs
wouldn't that make it an emulator
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--- Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ---The phrase "Wine Is Not an Emulator" is a reference to the fact that no processor code execution emulation occurs when running a Windows app under Wine. "Emulation" usually refers to the execution of compiled code intended for one processor (say, x86) by interpreting/recompiling software running on a different processor (say, PowerPC). Such emulation is almost always much slower than execution of the same code by the processor for which the code was compiled. In Wine, the Windows app's compiled x86 code runs at full native speed on the computer's x86 processor, just as it does when running under Windows. And Windows API calls and services also are not emulated, but rather substituted with Linux equivalents that are compiled for x86 and run at full, native speed.
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And there is no "try". Most of all Windows programs I've tried with Wine work fine.
Subpixel:
--- Quote from: Kingdaro on September 14, 2013, 03:24:24 PM ---
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I thought it meant Windows emulator
Kingdaro:
--- Quote from: Subpixel on September 14, 2013, 11:53:22 PM ---I thought it meant Windows emulator
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Used to, but nope.