On Monday 11 February 2002 16:20, you wrote: > But...something has actually been removed from the Transgaming version. > They didn't (apparently) take a good version of wine and add to it with > their dx stuff, they did something unnecessary and removed functionality at > the same time. > > ALL recent versions (over the last year or so) can do simple things like > run certain versions of IE, notepad, yadda, yadda, and other apps. There > is no reason to remove that ability in order to add dx functionality - I > suppose after several days of rest that is my mild conclusion. I WILL give > winex a try on my desktop when I want to try Deus Ex or Doom III or > Wolfenstein. On that system just windoze games are OK. My expectation, > however, would be that it is an EXTENDED version of a working wine rather > than a partially crippled version.
Have you thought about what that other fellow suggested concerning Lin4Win? I just read an article in LinuxFormat (UK magazine) about how good it was at running M$ stuff like Office. If half of what they say is true, it might be worth a look. Then, too, I read that in that distro, unlike Wine, the Windoze apps are isolated (evidently in some kind of fast emulator), unlike the Wine solution, which is not a true emulator, but rather just a translator for API calls. With that in mind, under Lin4Win, it may be possible to use the true emulation for your M$ apps, then use the Winex API translator for games and such. It does not seem likely that there would be a conflict there. But, like my brother told me the other day as I was making suggestions: "Hey....Theory is cheap. But Practice is damn expensive. " ;) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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