TransGaming Technologies

Part 2 of the MacX86 plan -- get games working using WINE, and Transgaming style solutions

TransGaming Technologies: "Cedega allows Windows-based games to run on Linux, out-of-the-box, seamlessly and transparently. With Cedega, TransGaming does not require any access to a game's source code but, rather, runs the Windows executable on Linux. In simplified terms, Cedega loads a game's binary into memory on a Linux system and then dynamically links to code that provides an implementation of the Win32 APIs that the program is using. "

Security Developer Center: Columns: Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator

Security Developer Center: Columns: Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator: "'Running with an administrative account is dangerous to the health of your computer and your data.' "

-- is that a fact?

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Apple move to Intel could break Microsoft's Hold

Sure seems to me that the landmark decision to move Apple hardware from PowerPC to Intel's line of CPU's could break some of the historical reasons why people don't switch. It's legacy investment of software. When I buy a new computer, I don't want to buy all my software again. I buy a computer because my old software runs too slowly. I like my old software, that's why I bought a new machine.

So what can Apple and the Apple developer community do? Make Windows applications work 'natively' on the Macintosh. Use projects like WINE (see DarWINE) - and look to port Ximian's MONO project to Macintosh to ensure that new .NET based applications can be ported or run Natively on the Macintosh.

OS/2 (originally a project between IBM and Microsoft) promised such a migration path, but for unknown reasons, OS/2 WARP never provided Win32 support, so only older windows apps would run.

For the first time since OS/2 there may be a logical shift from Windows to something else.