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Wine for Amiga is as confusing as Windows Subsystem for Linux. I thought it would be a port of Wine for the Amiga but it's instead something to run Amiga software on PC.

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It also makes even less sense than the Wine name. "Wine is not an emulator" - but it is! It's an API emulator, not an instruction set emulator. "Wine for Amiga" is an emulator in both senses.

My favorite piece of trivia is that main.c of the wine loader actually calls itself "emulator initialisation code" :D

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/loader/main....

IIRC Amiga Forever by Cloanto already did something similar?

Amiga Forever is a distribution of software (Amiga ROMs and OS disks) and a full system emulator: CPU, custom chips (graphics/sound/..) etc. It allows you to emulate various Amiga systems completely.

vAmos is just CPU and an embedded ROM/OS replacement that does just enough to run (some) AmigaOS command line programs. The primary use case is for cross-development (running Amiga compilers/tools, testing simple stuff, etc.) without having to boot a full system emulator for each command and better integration with e.g. host-side Makefiles.

With the vAmos=WINE analogy, Amiga Forever=VirtualBox/VMWare.

Being preceded by “virtual AmigaOS runtime”, I somehow had no trouble understanding it.

I guess a better description would be “Wine for Amiga software”.

The official name of this software is vamos - virtual Amiga OS.

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