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The new wine
Calum:
so will winex work just as well with non game programs that use directX?
for example, my favourite audio editing program (Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5) only runs in windows (no mac version even available!). It typically says you need the latest version of DirectX to run it properly.
There are many DirectX plugins available, some written for Sound Forge, some for CoolEdit, and some just for any DirectX using audio program.
Anyway, i've drawn a blank so far finding any linux programs that really compare, so maybe this windows program will run in wineX?
Or is it usually just the gaming people they aim for?
Master of Reality:
since there is no support if you dl the CVS source, i will have to ask you, how to i install winex after i download the CVS using the commands from their dl page?
badkarma:
easy:
su -
cd (winedir)
./tools/wineinstall
badkarma:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so will winex work just as well with non game programs that use directX?
for example, my favourite audio editing program (Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5) only runs in windows (no mac version even available!). It typically says you need the latest version of DirectX to run it properly.
There are many DirectX plugins available, some written for Sound Forge, some for CoolEdit, and some just for any DirectX using audio program.
Anyway, i've drawn a blank so far finding any linux programs that really compare, so maybe this windows program will run in wineX?
Or is it usually just the gaming people they aim for?
--- End quote ---
only one way to find out, try it ...
if it relies on dx7/8 then use winex, if it uses an older dx version use the normal wine (or use both, you can run make uninstall to remove wine and run $WINEDIR/tools/wineinstall to install it again, I have both versions on my pc and switch between them to try out different programs, dunno if it's possible to have 2 wine versions next to eachother, never tried it..... )
I haven't done anything with audio in a long time. I used to make digital music with impulse tracker (the infamous MOD format, only improved then) and also used cooledit (plus various software synthesizers, those programs ruled) and I allways used cooledit to fine tune my samples, was a really nice program....
I'll try running cooledit pro with wine and post here if it worked or not
badkarma:
didn't have much luck running cooledit under wine (nor under winex for that matter)....
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