From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 4: 2:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepZ.post.tele.dk (fepz.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7ED37B407 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mekanix@privat.dk) Received: from there ([62.243.18.42]) by fepZ.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.21 201-229-121-121-20010307) with SMTP id <20010817110241.UBCE14731.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there>; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:02:41 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: Bsd Newbie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINE Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:04:23 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20010817104344.17992.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010817104344.17992.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010817110241.UBCE14731.fepZ.post.tele.dk@there> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday den 17. August 2001 12:43, Bsd Newbie wrote: > Does anyone use this emulator? Wine Is Not an Emulator (W-I-N-E). ;-) > How capable is it? Will I need a powerful > processor to get somewhat acceptable performance Since Wine isn't emulating you'll get the same performance as with windows on the same machine. mIRC runs just fine on this machine. > (less than a second lag > time)? Sounds like you intend on playing games. On that part I haven't yet succeeded. Either installation fails, or starting.... or wine succeeds in crashing BSD totally and reboot. Don't know whether this is due to wine or X (4.0.3). And I'm not sure DirectX is fully supported yet. But good luck! ;) Bjarne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message