[Narishma]

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.

[ahartmetz]

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.

[petterroea]

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....

[easyThrowaway]

IIRC Amiga Forever by Cloanto already did something similar?

[mras0]

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.

[layer8]

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

[Wowfunhappy]

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

[doener]

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

[metadope]

Si habla español: Let's go!