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On 20/11/2009 20:43, Rob Beard wrote:
Michael Mortimore wrote:One thing that puts me off about arm is that the likes of flash and marbleblast are distributed as x86 binaries. Another thing is wine wouldn't work on arm since it doesn't translate the instruction set. Admittedly I only use wine for games which couldn't run on a netbook (well starcraft might but civ certainly wouldn't be playable).Adobe have released an ARM version of Flash. I see Marbleblast is available for Linux, so perhaps the developers could release an ARM build if there is enough interest.If you live a completely open source life then it wouldn't be a problem, but I don't so it would be.You're right about Wine not working, but if you don't use Wine then it isn't a problem. Then again maybe some bright spark might bring out a combination of QEmu and Wine to emulate Windows on x86.Rob
Just been doing a bit of searching, it looks like someone managed to get Wine on a PPC Mac running Linux:
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-June/014468.htmlIt uses the QEmu x86 core by the looks of things which executes the x86 code. Now that has got me thinking, would it be possible to run QEmu to emulate x86 on an ARM version of Linux?
If so, maybe it might be possible to run Wine on ARM with the help of QEmu to emulate an x86 CPU to run Windows stuff. Dare say it would be a tad slow though.
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