Codeweavers

David Baron · Post by **David Baron** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:54 am

Today October 28, they are giving their software for free. Yes. Interest is
go great they had to take their main site offline! Downloads can be done from
the subsitute web page.

So ... is their's really better than Wine on Debian Sid or Experimental? I
have no need for MS-office. OO is more than good enought. However ... the
question remains

They also offer a games package. Worthwhile? Also free today ONLY.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:15 am

2008/10/28 David Baron <[email protected]>:

They also offer a games package. Worthwhile? Also free today ONLY.

Absolutely worth it for gamers. The list of officially supported games
is fantastic. Just think of all the juicy bug reports they'll get!

- d.

stimpak · Post by **stimpak** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:29 pm

got mine already

Eric Gillespie · Post by **Eric Gillespie** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:52 pm

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:29 AM, stimpak <[email protected]> wrote:

got mine already

I think the DirectX support alone will be worth it. I'll see if it runs
Visual Studio Express too, though I'm a bit wary about that. Games? Well,
the machine I've got here is slow enough already without having to run
through an emulation layer, but it could be worth while, especially for some
of the older games my wife has.

I'm so glad they did this. I seem to remember Opera doing the same with
their software for a little while too.

Regards,
'nother Viking.
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kvk · Post by **kvk** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:09 pm

I'm new to codeweaver. Oddly enough, I had just checked their webite out a few days ago. I went ahead and downloaded the "Install-crossover-pro-7.1.0.sh" shell script. Do I simply run that within the terminal to install? Do I need to wait for the serial code to unlock it? Or is the code necessary for installation?

Dean Hamstead · Post by **Dean Hamstead** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:22 pm

the website claims that its built without the need to serial

but you can just run it and find out

Dean

kvk wrote:

I'm new to codeweaver. Oddly enough, I had just checked their webite out a few days ago. I went ahead and downloaded the "Install-crossover-pro-7.1.0.sh" shell script. Do I simply run that within the terminal to install? Do I need to wait for the serial code to unlock it? Or is the code necessary for installation?

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kvk · Post by **kvk** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:05 am

Well, it did indeed install fine and worked fine when installing Office 2003.

Is there a way to allow Crossover to install extra add-ons that are not specifically MS products and on disk? I have the MAthType add-on executable for Word on my desktop; how do I run that in Crossover? It might have the same issues as Wine with it and refuse to work at all, but I do need to try. :-p

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:22 am

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM, kvk <[email protected]> wrote:

Well, it did indeed install fine and worked fine when installing Office 2003.

Is there a way to allow Crossover to install extra add-ons that are not specifically MS products and on disk? I have the MAthType add-on executable for Word on my desktop; how do I run that in Crossover? It might have the same issues as Wine with it and refuse to work at all, but I do need to try. :-p

This is Wine support, not Crossweaver. Ask Codeweavers.

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David Baron · Post by **David Baron** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:11 am

So I installed it. I can say they have packaged it very nicely and give a
decent UI for "local" installation of supported and "unsupported" Windows
apps. One caveat is that their virus checck can take forever and make one
think the installation has hung.

Codeweavers runs Dagesh word processor. Recent WINE versions have not run this
in a long long time (used to!). This non-Unicode WP still handles multilingual
bi-directional docs better than Word or OpenOffice (language is up-front, not
an obscure font!! property). I am one of the authors.

If I can get wineasio to work with it, then I will give Cakewalk Sonar Home
Studio (2002) a try. Their older software, up to their "express", ran on WINE.
If this baby plays, nirvana. There are a few such apps that function
acceptably in WINE. Most are too heavy.

Still too early to wipe that Win98 partitions, however.

David Baron · Post by **David Baron** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:25 am

Cakewalk home studio will run in a y2k bottle. Many of these programs fail in
win98 because wine does not fully support thunking to 16-bit MIDI sequencer
DLLs,

It will detect a "DSP" output and a "snooper" input for audio -- looks like
OSS to me. MIDI devices are detected as in qjackctl connection pane. I
attempted to regsrvr32 wineasio.dll and run with jackd going. No audio devices
are then listed.

Has anyone configured codeweavers to use Alsa audio or jack correctly?

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:57 am

kvk <[email protected]> at Sent: Oct 28, 2008 10:05 PM scribbed a note about [Wine] Re: Codeweavers

Well, it did indeed install fine and worked fine when installing Office 2003.

Is there a way to allow Crossover to install extra add-ons that are not specifically MS products and on disk? I have the MAthType add-on executable for Word on my desktop; how do I run that in Crossover?

It would be best to ask this question on the CrossOver forums. There should be several available after their site is brought back up.

James McKenzie

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:18 am

Has anyone configured codeweavers to use Alsa audio or jack correctly?

Ask the folks at CodeWeavers. Their forums should be back up once the server is restored.

James McKenzie