Nothing more than solitaire...

[James Richard Tyrer]

Silvan Pagan wrote:
> 
> I've tried lots and lots of stuff, fiddling with the various configuration options again and again.
> 
> Solitaire works most of the time.
> Notepad doesn't let me enter text.
> Calc displays the numbers in the wrong place, but otherwise works.
> 
> Street Atlas USA 8.0 barfs completely.  Not even close, in spite of being in the database.
> 
> Agent does not exhibit proper internal windowing behavior, and crashes when
> I attempt to connect to the network, though at least it works well enough for me to read some old stuff I have saved in there.
> 
> PSP 5 doesn't even try.
> 
> Wincake (old win16 version) loads, but can't get past the MIDI setup.  It
> insists on barfing on an error about not finding the Windows driver for my
> soundcard.  I have tried it with fake windows with a fake local registry...
> No avail...
> 
> American Heritage Dictionary (old version right around '95) can't find its
> fonts, nor can it reference the location of any of the files it needs.  It
> needs its fonts, and its files.  I have its fonts installed in Linux, but I don't know if that will make any difference or not.  It's a very font-specific program, since it uses custom fonts to display all the funky charactersin the pronunciation guides.
> 
> IOW wine has not impressed me as a viable alternative to continuing to dual boot.
> 

I tend to agree with you.

Also, Adobe Acrobat 4.05 works.  But, what is the point?

But, CodeWeavers has promised us WINE 1.0 sometime.

JRT

JRT