Hi > 6.writing a clone of the cards.dll used by the windows card games. (...) Yet another link for free cards :) http://www.jfitz.com/cards/index.html > 9.writing a calculaor app (i.e. a calc.exe clone), again dont know if WINE > needs one but ReactOS might... calc.exe that comes with M$ windows works well with Wine. Why should it be rewrited ? Stephan