Wine

**Wine**
Release date	1.0 - June 17, 2008
Latest version	7.0
Latest beta version	7.16
OS	UNIX-like systems
Site	winehq.org

Wine is a free (open source) implementation of the Windows API that allows users of UNIX-like systems such as GNU/Linux to run 16-, 32-, and 64-bit applications, including games created only for Microsoft Windows without installing Windows itself.

The name W.I.N.E. is a recursive acronym and stands for "W.I.N.E. is not an emulator (Wine is not an emualtor)." Instead, Wine is an alternative implementation of the Windows API.

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Project History

The Wine project was founded in 1993 to run 16-bit Windows 3.1 applications on a Linux system. Since 2002, it has been distributed under the GNU LPGL free license.

Over time, Wine has been ported to other UNIX-like systems, as well as to Windows (in Windows, Wine is usually used to run older applications on new OS versions). Support for 32-bit Windows applications was added, and in 2005, 64-bit applications were also added.

Until October 2005, the project was in the alpha stage, although many programs worked flawlessly with it. On October 25, 2005, the first beta version of Wine 0.9 was released. Since then, new versions have been released usually once every two weeks.

List of Wine versions (not fully)

June 17, 2008 - the first stable Wine 1.0 was released.

July 16, 2010 - the next stable version of Wine was released under the number 1.2.

March 7, 2012 - Wine 1.4 is released.

March 16, 2012 - a test release was released - version Wine 1.5.0, which is updated every 15-20 days.

February 3, 2013 - FOSDEM announces that Wine has been ported to Android.

July 18, 2013 - Test version of Wine 1.6.0 is released.

On April 20, 2017, a stable release is released - Wine version number 2.0.1.

January 18, 2018 - Wine 3.0 is released (version 3.0.1 is used in ExaGear Windows Emulator).

January 22, 2019 - Wine 4.0 is released.

January 21, 2020 - Wine 5.0 release

October 08, 2021 - Wine 6.19 is released.

Current version (as of 01/20/2022) — Wine 7.0

Wine in ExaGear

In ExaGear Strategies/RPG/Windows Emulator to run x86 Windows applications on ARM GNU/Linux platforms in a Linux container, Wine is used, the latest official version of ExaGear Windows Emulator 3.0.1 uses Wine 3.0.1, the latest versions can be used by rebuilding the .obb with a newer version of Wine.