E-UAE v WinUAE (WINE)

[Karlos]

I was a bit bored the other day and thought I'd try WinUAE under WINE.

Not only did it run, it actually outperformed the native E-UAE version on my system quite significantly, both for CPU performance and graphical operations. Just a thought for any linux users wishing to run an emulation on their machine.

[bloodline]

I was a bit bored the other day and thought I'd try WinUAE under WINE.

Not only did it run, it actually outperformed the native E-UAE version on my system quite significantly, both for CPU performance and graphical operations. Just a thought for any linux users wishing to run an emulation on their machine.

Does WINE still offer static linklibs, so that you can compile Windows Apps to UNIX without the need for the WINE runtime?

[DiskDoctor]

Does WINE still offer static linklibs, so that you can compile Windows Apps to UNIX without the need for the WINE runtime?

Doesn't WINE simply forward systems' APIS? Why compiling anything??

[bloodline]

Doesn't WINE simply forward systems' APIS? Why compiling anything??

It does, but it still needs a runtime... which the user must install first, before they can run the Windows program.

Since Toni has no plans to port WinUAE to UNIX, but does provide the source code, a Statically compiled WinUAE with WINE would require no WINE runtime installed on your chosen *NIX clone.

[amigadave]

I was a bit bored the other day and thought I'd try WinUAE under WINE.

Not only did it run, it actually outperformed the native E-UAE version on my system quite significantly, both for CPU performance and graphical operations. Just a thought for any linux users wishing to run an emulation on their machine.

That is very cool!  A tutorial on how to accomplish this would be very useful for those people like me that are noobs at using any kind of Linux, but would like to run WinUAE instead of EUAE, without having to use Windows of any kind to host WinUAE.

[Karlos]

That is very cool!  A tutorial on how to accomplish this would be very useful for those people like me that are noobs at using any kind of Linux, but would like to run WinUAE instead of EUAE, without having to use Windows of any kind to host WinUAE.

1) Download and extract the winuae archive.
2) Put your kickstart image in the usual subdirectory. If possible, chuck in a working hard drive image or directory.
3) If you don't already have it, install wine. Installation depends on your distro, but I just installed the version from the repository (via apt-get install).

4) Move the WinUAE directory to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/

5) CD into said directory and type wine winuae.exe

6) Configure as you would under windows. If you want to point any of the paths at somewhere on your host linux filesystem, it's usually mounted in WINE as drive Z:

7) give it a spin

[TCMSLP]

Even easier than the above ...

I installed WINE ('aptitude install wine' in Ubuntu/Debian, or use gui package manager), then downloaded the WinUAE installer, which firefox opened using WINE (as it was a .exe).   Or perhaps I downloaded the .exe installer to my desktop then double clicked to open.   I don't recall - but if you have WINE installed and you open a windows executable WINE should just do its magic

I find the majority of Windows apps run fine under WINE nowadays.



Steve

[Karlos]

Well, to be honest I didn't even have to do all that as I had wine already installed and WinUAE was installed on my windows partition.

I just copied it over