So being an enterprising individual, I got the Wine source code and the required libraries and compiled Wine in Leopard (10.5.8). It's up and running, and I can call up winecfg in Terminal, and it displays properly in X11. Sound works and all that. I have a few old Windows apps I wouldn't mind using again that aren't worth the trouble of buying another Windows license and all that, so I figured I'd give it whirl. A couple of those are old games. [edit] I'd run them on my XP machine if SP 3 hadn't broken them. However, I can't figure out how to actually install anything to Wine's fake drive C. ![]() In this tutorial, we learn how to find the C drive on a Mac computer. Unfortunately, Mac does not label their drives with letters like other computer systems do. You can name your drives anything y. Has anyone else fiddled round with this, and know how to actually get things installed? If they are all older, non-graphic intensive games, you might want to look into virtual machines. VirtualBox is free and should have no problem running 2D and simple 3D games. If you want to stick with WINE, I would recommend checking out what settings people have used with *nix WINE. Best place for that is the WINE support forums. Most people here use VMs or CodeWeaver (I use both) to run their Windows apps in OS X, so you probably won't find much help here as few people have experience setting up WINE properly. How to format a udb stick on windows for osx. Heck, I never got WINE to work properly when I ran Ubuntu. PS To install apps with WINE, use the following terminal command: wine. What is a Wrapper? A Wineskin Wrapper refers to the actual.app application files you create in Wineskin Winery.app. They are basically what they sound like. They wrap around Windows software, in order to make it run. The wrappers contain a fake “drive C” that a Windows program running from that wrapper thinks is the C: drive, and it has a dosdevices folder that is mappings to other drive letters Windows will see. These are not virtual drives, they are just folders on your system that Wine uses like drives. There is also three.reg files that are the Wine registry and store information any program writes in the Windows registry. In Wineskin the goal is to create 1 wrapper per application you want to run. So the final product is the Windows app wrapped all up and looks/works just like a Mac Application.
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