undefined | Better HN

0 pointskijiki5y ago0 comments

It was just a choice Microsoft made. Wine happily runs win16 apps on x86_64 Linux.

There was a wine derived thing that used to work on Win64 to run win16 apps, but something in later windows versions broke that.

0 comments

3 comments · 1 top-level

acqq5y ago· 2 in thread

> There was a wine derived thing that used to work on Win64 to run win16 apps

Does that mean winevdm doesn't work anymore?

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

kijikiOP5y ago

Oh, I didn't realize they'd worked around MS removing LDT access. They did it by running in an 16bit x86 emulator, which is a pretty big hammer, but I guess win16 apps are old enough that the performance is still more than fine on modern CPUs.

my1235y ago

A bigger reason for WoW not being available on 64-bit Windows is that HANDLEs would get truncated in that case, which isn't wanted behavior.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse