Re: CiderPress, AppleWin, and Wine

["touvell@gmail.com" <touvell@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the link Mike. I grabbed the time-demo and tried both
CiderPress and AppleWin.

Just using the default Cedega setup, AppleWin worked pretty well. There
are a few issues - the buttons  along the left have a blue background,
the mouse cursor doesn't stay locked in the window when using  the
mouse as a joystick, full screen mode doesn't work (not that I expected
it to.) I didn't try anything serial ports or uthernet, But I suspect
they wouldn't work either. I was able to boot up several floppy images
and everything ran ok.

CiderPress sort of worked. It runs, and will open disk and file
archives most of the time. Sometimes the file open dialog doesn't show
any files and sometimes it hangs up and won't respond to mouse clicks.
Sometimes the viewer won't show any text, but if you try it again on
the same file it works. I didn't try to view any graphics files, but
viewing text, applesoft, and appleworks files worked. Trying to view a
S16 file gave me a "rich edit out of space" error, whatever that means.
The convert to Disk Image and Disk Image Converter tools totally crash
CiderPress.

I didn't do any extensive testing of either program, and didn't fiddle
with any Cedega settings.

I'll probably just boot windows to run CiderPress and AppleWin for now.
Hopefully in time Cedega or Wine will do better with them, or can I
even hope for Linux ports? Other than those two programs, the only
reason I've booted into windows lately is to convert some family videos
to DVD with a DVD Express capture box. There are probably a few other
things I'll need to keep windows around for, like TurboTax, but I'm
working on moving to Linux as much as I can.

Thanks for the help,

Dave