Wine On Ps3 ?, Can it be done? Options

[Richtopia]

I have yellow dog linux (ydl) insalled on my PS3

i would like to run game emulators on it but as you know there for windows at lest thats all what i can find and of corse mod\soft mod emulators
so i was told to install wine wich is a window base hack for linux but i dont know wich one i need can this be done on the PS3 or can you help with any links for the gane emulators for linux ydl ps3 please note im not asking for the rom links i dont want me or you to get kick out of the forms

(Note) im new to linux so please no tech terms

i will need a step by step on the install of wine if it can be done thank you for your help

[troy2000]

You can not run Wine under PS3 YDL. Wine is not an emulator, but simply an interpreter. It is designed to run only on an X86 (PC) type processor.

There are many console/PC emulators designed for PS3 YDL. I recommend you use the "Package Install/Uninstall" application to search for the emulator you need.

[Richtopia]

Thankyou for your reply on the wine

can you tell me a link for the emulators it will help me out if you can thanks

This post has been edited by Richtopia: Aug 24 2008, 03:58 PM

[fugmenot]

You can not run Wine under PS3 YDL. Wine is not an emulator, but simply an interpreter. It is designed to run only on an X86 (PC) type processor.

There are many console/PC emulators designed for PS3 YDL. I recommend you use the "Package Install/Uninstall" application to search for the emulator you need.

Please don't be so sure of yourself when you are wrong. It is possible to use Wine on non-x86(-64) CPUs, including the Cell, where it runs Linux. Using QEMU, you are able to execute Linux binaries compiled for different architecture. So, you can use the PPC build of qemu-i386 (with all the appropriate lib files etc etc) to run Wine and its dependencies on the Cell, which obviously lets you run those Windows executables that Wine will run.

I did this with YDL over a year ago; it is entirely possible. But also entirely impracticable for what you would most likely want to run. You should not even consider doing this for anything other than an exercise in seeing it work, because of the performance hit. Of course, if you are quite desperate, you could use it to run resource light Windows GUI apps, or console apps.