Calling a program portable by virtue of wine being a thing defies logic. That said, nice work. Midi instrument input is on my wishlist.

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SergiusHN 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Portable and cross-platform are not synonymous. Being developed with the Wine in mind and being a standalone app are two unrelated features.

https://www.blaizenterprises.com/cynthia.html#help--what-mak...

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karmakaze an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There were companies that specialized in 'porting' games to Mac using/packaging Wine long ago. It was certainly effective in the Intel Mac days and newer CPUs can certainly run software that predates that well. Heck browsers can run OSes and games in JS/Wasm.

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internet2000 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, very nice app, but it's weird to target Windows as the primary OS.

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ale42 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe it's "portable" in the sense that it's just an executable to launch, with no installation needed? I don't think they claim it is multi-platform.

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6581 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"* Also runs on Linux/Mac (including apple silicon) via Wine *"

	▲	Krssst 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Their website makes their definition of portable very clear in "What makes a portable app special?". It's quite clear they mean more a (much) stricter variation of the "no installation" definition than the "easily buildable on other OS" definition. Though they do mention execution under translation environments as a requirement.

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ksherlock 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd guess approximately nobody does it, but with winelib you can do a native compile and link.

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jjmarr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wine MIDI doesn't work, so it's a big advantage.