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Originally Posted by Red Person
When I said that dos emulators are better than windows emulators in general, I meant that the dos emulators WORK better than windows emulators. I've tested both WINE and dosbox. Almost every dos game works fine in dosbox but many windows games don't work in Wine. This fact is actually obvious because windows (with directx etc.) is much harder to emulate than dos.
WINE means "Wine is not an emulator". Maybe the word "emulate" has a specific meaning which is not true for WINE but at least WINE simulates a system. A program started under WINE doesn't "know" it's actually running on a non-windows system. That's what I call a simulation, although personally I don't differ between simulation and emulation.
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Wine doesn't simulate anything. It merely acts as a translator of sorts so that Windows applications can run under Linux, by providing the functions they would expect under Windows. It doesn't emulate anything from a technical standpoint, and your definition of simulation is obscure, at best.
Emulators capable of running DOS, however, are actually emulating the processor the system would run on. Therefore, there is no actual difference between emulating Windows and DOS, as they both run under the same processor archetecture. The reason DOSBox would run much better for most people is simply because of how few system resources a functional DOS system requires.
And to further debunk point 11, from an end-user's standpoint, DOSBox is also somewhat complicated to operate, and the documentation on their website can be confusing to novices. Wine, on the other hand, has ample "hold-your-hand" documentation, as well as support from many distributions, including being installed by default on many desktop-based distributions. Plus, with there already being a native Mac version of JJ2, that would make it the most available to users, making point 11 moot.
Last edited by Sonyk; Feb 14, 2007 at 07:58 PM.
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