Wine has improved a lot!

James Colannino · Post by **James Colannino** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:37 am

I hope I'm not wasting bandwidth with this, but I just had to compliment
the developers of Wine for the work that's been done. Wine has gotten
to the point now where just about anything I've thrown at it works
either out of the box, or with minimal tweaking.

I remember when it used to be really difficult or nearly impossible to
get many applications to run with Wine, but now the opposite seems to be
true. I can't even begin to imagine how much work must go into
reproducing the Windows API.

Because of Wine, I've been able to use the only two commercial
applications I've ever had to buy in years because they filled a unique
niche on my Linux machine instead of having to install another OS.

My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the developers of this amazing project.

James
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Hartmut Figge · Post by **Hartmut Figge** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:48 am

James Colannino:

I hope I'm not wasting bandwidth with this, but I just had to compliment
the developers of Wine for the work that's been done.

Yes, i agree.

Wine has gotten to the point now where just about anything I've
thrown at it works either out of the box, or with minimal tweaking.

Mhm, no. There remains the problem with the copy-protection of some
games. E.g. Might&Magic 7 to 9 will not run. Then there is the problem
that Gothic 1 and 2 only run with 'musicEnabled=0' in GOTHIC.INI.

But nevertheless, great work is done.

Hartmut

James Colannino · Post by **James Colannino** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:48 am

Hartmut Figge wrote:

Mhm, no. There remains the problem with the copy-protection of some
games. E.g. Might&Magic 7 to 9 will not run. Then there is the problem
that Gothic 1 and 2 only run with 'musicEnabled=0' in GOTHIC.INI.

Ah. Well, I guess it's fortunate for me that I'm not as into games as I
used to be a long time ago

James
--
My blog: http://www.crazydrclaw.com/
My homepage: http://james.colannino.org/

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will
command the attention of the world." --George Washington Carver

Hartmut Figge · Post by **Hartmut Figge** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:03 pm

James Colannino:

Hartmut Figge wrote:

Mhm, no. There remains the problem with the copy-protection of some
games. E.g. Might&Magic 7 to 9 will not run. Then there is the problem
that Gothic 1 and 2 only run with 'musicEnabled=0' in GOTHIC.INI.
Ah. Well, I guess it's fortunate for me that I'm not as into games as I
used to be a long time ago

Well, then be very carefull not play Gothic 1 or 2. That's a dangerous
thing. Maybe you will get lost there for a long time. *eg*

Hartmut, just playing Wizardry 6 with dosemu