Re: WINE with CiderPress

[Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>]

BluPhoenyx wrote:

> Tristan Mumford wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I just tried CiderPress for the first time. Because I only run Debian on
>> my computer I ran it using WINE.
>> CiderPress installed and ran perfectly.
>> 
>> I thought I'd mention this for anyone using Linux, or considering the
>> switch.
> 
> Yeah, it's been mentioned a time or two but hey, more advertising for
> Linux. :) Oh, it also runs in Cedega (originally WineX).

I have never hear of that, but there's a lot of software out there!

> 
> One drawback though, I can't access my CFFA card properly. The system
> recognizes the media but not the partition on it. Trying several
> different access points with the WINE configuration ends up with a disk
> error or 'ram disk not supported'.

That's a big annoyance. Hopefully I'll be getting a CFFA in the nearish
future so I'll be able to have a stab at it.

> For me, this is not a big problem. I 
> have a uthernet card to transfer files with. It is however an annoyance
> that the problem exists, after all it is Linux. :)
It's Windows :) You probably have perfect raw device access in linux, but it
doesn't translate over too well via WINE to the Win32 app.

> I suppose I could use 
> another method such as a pc emulator with usb access but I don't think
> it's worth the effort.

Agreed. It is an awfully big thing to do to achieve something simple.

Tristan.

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