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Given that this is an emulator, would there be a way to port this to Android?

I think it forwards the calls to native 64-bit Windows APIs. Does Android implement the Windows APIs?

"Wine Is Not an Emulator"

The linked software contains a CPU emulator, since 64-bit Windows cannot execute programs in 16-bit mode.

Regardless, I would argue Wine is an emulator. It emulates Windows's behavior, so it is perfectly fine to describe it as an emulator in some contexts. This pedantic nit-picking is really tiresome.

It's not a nitpick in this context, since Wine on Android will only run ARM64 binaries (unless you have one of those few x86 Android devices)

Nitpicking? Literally look at https://www.winehq.org/ front page

"Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator")..."

And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy.

Wine is an API emulator

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