2010/6/27 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) ngompa13@gmail.com:
DirectX 10 games on Windows XP :P Seriously though, being able to run programs that ran on Windows 9x but not NT based Windows would be a pretty good use for Wine. Granted, most of those programs are games, but meh. And then there's being able to run 16-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Windows! :P
16-bit compilation is currently disabled in Cygwin. There's a list of ideas on http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows -
* As much as possible should compile (and even work). * Check how well the .EXE and .DLL made by Wine on Cygwin work in Windows. If a MinGW-compiled DLL works in Windows, a Cygwin-compiled DLL should. * ./configure fails to pick up the presence of a lot of packages it should. * Win16 is disabled in Cygwin (severe compilation problems). Enabling that and getting it to compile would be interesting.
That's as well as writing a program loader that works ;-)
It is important to stress that this is *largely pointless* and mostly driven by *hack value*.
- d.