wine: wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) wine: wine: Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a wine: compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several wine: POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. wine: Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine wine: or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on the wine: fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods wine: allowing you to integrate Windows applications into your desktop. wine: wine: Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/