Re: WINE with CiderPress

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

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.
>
> For those of you who don't know, WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) is more or
> less a compatibility layer allowing a large proportion of Windows programs
> and games to run in Linux under X11.
> WINE is an amazing project that has been worked on for many years by many
> people.
>
> Anyway I was using CiderPress to have a look at the corrupted disk images I
> backed up. There doesn't seem to be any reason behind the corruption. On
> the readable disk images, some have noticable bursts of garbage, others
> have parts of their filesystem missing, and some seem to have nothing wrong
> at all, although they instantly dump to monitor on testing. I haven't done
> a disassembly of the latter to look though.
>
> Anyway, CiderPress makes it onto my list of best utilities for the Apple
> 8-bitters.

Any chance there's a DOS-order vs. ProDOS-order problem?

Try converting some that look OK to DOS-order, and see if that
makes them work.  (Sorry if you've already tried this.  ;-)

-michael

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