AFAIK those are more like Windows API & ABI reverse engineered
and reimplemented and that is a huge difference.
On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 10:01:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-12-17 09:21, Walter Bright wrote:
I know what I'm talking about with this. The only time they
get reverse
engineered is when somebody really really REALLY wants to do
it, an
expert is necessary to do the job, and it's completely
impractical for
larger sets of files. You cannot build a tool to do it, it
must be done
by hand, line by line. It's the proverbial turning of
hamburger back
into a cow.
Evert heard of Wine or ReactOS, it's basically Windows reversed
engineered.
