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Windows applications on MacIntel

By linathael. Original by Yoc - 11/08/2005 13:28:04 CEST - Category: Mac Intel
Another important information related to MacIntel has been released maybe without realizing its future potential impact.
CodeWeavers, a company selling Crossover Office, a packed version of Wine, has announced in its roadmap that they plan to make CrossOver Office available for Windows-to-Mac application porting in 2006.
Just to remind you Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and UNIX and Crossover Office allows to emulate most of windows application on Linux.
But Wine requires Intel CPU for optimal operation, so even it is based on UNIX it can not run on current PPC-based Mac; but it will change in the future.
Even if the MacIntel will be dual-boot compatible, it will be quite interesting for the user to double click on a Windows application while being running OSX x86. This way, one could run from MacIntel computer old PPC applications, new OSX x86 applications and windows applications.
Who was claiming that the Mac is not compatible??
Last but not least, CrossOver is planning to port DirectX to Linux, as well as Transgaming is preparing the same thing with its Cedega flagship (Linux compatible versions of DirectX 9.0 APIs). So, people claiming that Apple computers are not a game platform might be proven to be fully wrong in a near future too...

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