Can Wine be run on Windows 8?

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Can Wine be run on Windows 8?

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Hello.
Can Wine be run on Windows 8?
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Re: Can Wine be run on Windows 8?

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Why do you ask? There was tests with that, but there's not much use to it, really. Apart from the hacking value that is, windows can already run windows binaries, right?
You can use wined3d on windows though - if you want better compatibility for old games that worked on WinXP, for example.
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Re: Can Wine be run on Windows 8?

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Ok, thanks.
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