Nothing more than solitaire...
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Sun Dec 2 01:59:51 CST 2001
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
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