Written by Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Modified by Dustin Navea
In order to run Wine, you need the following:
A computer ;-)
Wine: only PCs >= i386 are supported at the moment.
Winelib: selected other platforms are supported, but can be tricky.
A UNIX-like operating system such as Linux, *BSD, Solaris x86, ReactOS, Cygwin
>= 32MB of RAM. Everything below is pretty much unusable. >= 96 MB is needed for "good" execution.
An X11 window system (XFree86 etc.). Wine is prepared for other graphics display drivers, but writing support is not too easy. The text console display driver (ttydrv) is nearly usable.
Now that you hopefully managed to fulfill the requirements mentioned above, we tell you what Wine is able to do/support:
Support for executing DOS, Win 3.x and Win9x/NT/Win2000/XP programs (most of Win32's controls are supported)
Optional use of external vendor DLLs (e.g. original Windows DLLs)
X11-based graphics display (remote display to any X terminal possible), text mode console
Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
32 bit graphical coordinates for CAD applications, pretty advanced DirectX support for games
Good support for sound, alternative input devices
Printing: supports native Win16 printer drivers, Internal PostScript driver
Modems, serial devices are supported
Winsock TCP/IP networking
ASPI interface (SCSI) support for scanners, CD writers, ...
Unicode support, relatively advanced language support
Wine debugger and configurable trace logging messages