[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Manny]

On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 20:06 +0000, tonym wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
>  >From: "Manny" <manney at gmail.com>
>  >Sent 9/18/2010 3:47:05 PM
>  >To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>  >Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution
>  >
> 
> >On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 14:29 -0500, Roger Taylor wrote: > >> Yes, the Rainbow IDE will run under the Wine Windows emulator in Linux. >> >> I think quite a bit of CoCo games and programs have been created >> using my IDEs. Rainbow has sold to many non-CoCo users. Portal-9 is >> basically a simple CoCo IDE with emulation support, then Rainbow >> added much more support, and Phoenix has major plans. > >Wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator." ;) > >http://wiki.winehq.org/Debunking_Wine_Myths#head->7c9ecddfaff60d8891414b68d74277244e7109eb >An interesting history of Wine: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineHistory >>-M. from the page you linked to... "Wine's not that kind of emulator" Meaning, it's ANOTHER kind, meaning it's still an emulator. It's not a full emulation, as in CPU and hardware emulation, or virtual machine, but it's an API-level emulation. If it was not, they would've put right on that page, that it was NOT an emulator. Instead, they say "Wine's not that kind of emulat
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Hey!  Note the wink.  I'm just sayin' that's what Wine stands for,
that's all.

-M.