Support for Dragon NS in Wine

[Susan Cragin]

>On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jeff Zaroyko <jeffzaroyko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While I don't own any NS product, two open bugs to come to mind for NS
>> 8, one affecting the installer but with a workaround, bug 15708 and
>> the other a user has reported a regression bug 16248 but was not
>> interested in running a regression test.
>>
>> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15708
>> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16248
>
>I think those were both for NS 7, not 8...
>A full list of NS bugs is at
>http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Dragon+Naturally+Speaking
>Looks like 9 is happier than 10...?

I have 7, 8, 9, 9.5 and 10 here. 
I'll test a couple tonight, maybe 7 and 8, on today's git.
Here's what I remember. 
7 worked great right out of the box at one time, with all-native code. 
8 is virtually the same product as 7. Ditto worked great. (Nobody bought 8 much because it was the same engine as 7.)
9.0 worked pretty good out of the box with a couple of glitches. 
9.5 does not install, and works not at all, except for one lucky man who developed a workaround that doesn't always work. 
(9.5 replaced 9.0 as "version 9," and 9.0 is no longer sold, at least in the US.)
10.0 installs well and runs pretty well for 10 minutes, then nasty crashes happen. 

Wine support has been given primarily for the two cheapest "consumer" versions, Standard and Preferred. 
Very few people have asked about Professional, and I don't know of anyone who has tried to make Professional 8 run with wine. 

Susan