Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications

(boxedwine.org)

18 points | by marcodiego 9 months ago ago

5 comments

  • saurik 9 months ago ago

    I am sure this is obvious and I am just not in the right ecosystem to appreciate the problem, but why do they have to include a Linux emulator to use Wine? Can't I just run Wine?

    • xanathar 9 months ago ago

      To run win32 applications inside Windows operating systems that are too modern (e.g. for 16bit apps), in a browser or on macOS (recent versions of macOS do not have 32bit support and IIRC runnin 32bit wine was not easy).

      Of course these are my guesses, I don't think the "purpose" of boxedwine is ever explicitly stated.