Support for Dragon NS in Wine

[James McKenzie]

Steven Druker wrote:
> Susan, thanks for your continued research.  It's giving me a good
> grasp of reality. 
>
> On that note, will it be possible to run the various MS Office 2003
> apps. on the Mac with Crossover, or will there be so many snags that
> it makes more sense to buy the Office product designed for Mac?  This
> is a question for all of you. 
Actually, this is a user question.  As an avid supporter of the Mac
Darwine builds, I would state that running Office 2008 for the Mac would
be better (it is a native application).  HOWEVER, there is NO Access
program that ships for the Mac (at least as far as I know) so if you
require this program, you will have to take a step backwards and use
Office 2003. 

As to support for various Windows programs, you have to test most of
them yourself as functionality between the Linux and Mac releases of
Wine may vary. 

Also, as a side note, I am working on Mike Kronenberg's Darwine builds
on my Intel Mac.  Darwine does not fully function on the Power PC and it
appears that the project is currently abandonware.

As to the functionality of various Office 2003 programs with Crossover
for the Mac, you'll have to ask there and look at their compatibility
list.  They do things that Wine does not, like support the Aqua native
interface (I just got done playing Doom II on it, which did not run on
Mike Kronenberg's nor Zach Drayer's Darwine builds.)

James McKenzie