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    Wine Doors .......Sweet.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 25, 2007.

  1. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 25, 2007
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  2. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    Ohh nice, although WHY the screenshot has Windows media Player in it... god alone knows...

    But :) Might have to play with it later...
     
    Arla, Jul 25, 2007
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    ewhac Notebook Guru

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    The first and only time I tried Wine was to see if an IDE I needed to use at work would run (Freescale CodeWarrior, if you must know). It failed fairly quickly, as it couldn't find the Internet Explorer install. So that was pretty much it for me and Wine.

    I suppose I should try again....
     
    ewhac, Jul 25, 2007
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  4. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    Most of the apps work for me, but forget about Quicktime. It does try to work, but is too buggy and uninstallable. Stay away from Quicktime. Winamp works flawless.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 26, 2007
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  5. lemur

    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    That Wine-doors thing looks nice.

    Note that this is not the first time somebody produces something like that. About 1.5-2 years ago I used a tool whose name I can't remember. It allows the installation of basic necessities like fonts and some DLLs. It also allowed to install IE. I don't remember what else it did but it was pretty neat. It seems thought that its development died. I'm glad someone took over.
     
    lemur, Jul 26, 2007
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  6. tripinva

    tripinva Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Winetools?

    - Trip
     
    tripinva, Jul 26, 2007
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  7. lemur

    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    Yeah... I think it was called winetools.
     
    lemur, Jul 27, 2007
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  8. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Perhaps you are referring to Wine XS, a WINE management program?
     
    Bog, Jul 27, 2007
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  9. lemur

    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    Never heard of Wine XS... I'm pretty sure what I used was called winetools.
     
    lemur, Jul 27, 2007
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