mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoWine 11.0 is planned for release tomorrow, featuring NTSync for improved NT synchronization, fully supported new WoW64 mode, enhanced Wayland/Vulkan drivers, and many other improvementswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1311cross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
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minus-squareTobias Schmidl@augsburg.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day ago@inzen @mr_MADAFAKA as soon as the kernel rewrite happened, this is nearly guaranteed. https://augsburg.social/@schtobia/115767277911084452
minus-squareinzen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoOh wow, all the legacy software would be stuck on old windows or have to move to linux. If I got that right.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoThey could implement a compatibility layer themselves, Apple managed to keep compatibility moving from PPC to x86 and then to ARM
minus-squareTobias Schmidl@augsburg.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day ago@inzen yeah, that would be terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCXCqp1U5Y
minus-squareashx64@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoThere was an update to that post, where the author said it was a “misinterpretation” and that it was just a research project.
minus-squareTobias Schmidl@augsburg.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day ago@ashleythorne true! But the Win32 ABI was the “holy grail” of Microsoft. You can run a Win95 application written under Borland C++ today! That they even _considering_ of breaking that, would be *unthinkable* a few years ago.
@inzen @mr_MADAFAKA as soon as the kernel rewrite happened, this is nearly guaranteed. https://augsburg.social/@schtobia/115767277911084452
Oh wow, all the legacy software would be stuck on old windows or have to move to linux. If I got that right.
They could implement a compatibility layer themselves, Apple managed to keep compatibility moving from PPC to x86 and then to ARM
@inzen yeah, that would be terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCXCqp1U5Y
There was an update to that post, where the author said it was a “misinterpretation” and that it was just a research project.
@ashleythorne true! But the Win32 ABI was the “holy grail” of Microsoft. You can run a Win95 application written under Borland C++ today! That they even _considering_ of breaking that, would be *unthinkable* a few years ago.