On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:53:08AM -0700, hatky wrote:
- So why did they move VXD's to dos?
Because they are the drivers for DOS-based Windows versions (9x, ME)? (Just guessing here)
- Do native VXD's in wine load for every windows
version defined?
No, they don't work in *any* version.
- Do you mean a messy rewrite or just compilling with
the winelib?
A complete reimplementation.
- Since it's kind of a driver I get wine will never
support real ones, not in the near fauter, right?
Correct.
- Was supporting real windows drivers ever came up? I
know that if something like this would of been done it wouldn't be it wine but I wander, is there such a project?
Drivers need hardware access, expect a certain memory layout, access to interrupts and whatever. Actually, this sort of project exists, it's called Bochs and implements a virtual PC. I think nothing less than that is going to work.
Ciao Jörg
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