Nothing more than solitaire...

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> Silvan Pagan wrote:

[...]

>> 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.
Well, Wine *still* is declared alpha software.
Which means that we *still* do *heavy* architectural changes sometimes
(which is especially happening right now !)

Nothing to be astonished about... ;)

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