Saturday, March 29, 2008

Having fun with Wine

I tried my luck at installing nine Windows applications via Wine & Wine-doors today:

The success:

- Mozilla Thunderbird (Windows version)
Works perfectly, haven't noticed anything odd about it.

- Apple Safari
The install was successful, but it crashes when ever it is done loading a page.

- Visual C++
6

Visual C++ 6 running with a project I'm working on (thanks to GT for this great simulator). Installing Visual C++ 6 was the most tricky, but was successful. The steps I followed are here.

- RPG Maker XP

Installation process is smooth and error free, clicking on the buttons you can create or open an existing project, all the buttons function well.
You can run, edit and play your project and I didn't notice any obvious bugs.
But the moment you click on a menu, or try to resize the window it will crash immediately. When listening to music BGS and SE will work but BGM and ME wont!

The failure:
- IE6
Tried it for the lulz and it failed, and I couldn't care less.

- Windows Journal Viewer
Of all MS programs, this has the cleanest and fastest setup process on Wine, yet it crashes the instant you try to start it.

- Visual C# 2005
At first tried installing it with Wine-doors, an hour later, nearly no progress.

Decided to use Wine, now more improved and usually a double click on an EXE file is all you need to do. The installation process went smoothly until...

Was it a failure or a success? I think it is more of a failure, everytime I start Visual C# 2005 it crashes immediately (can't even grab a screenshot).

- Visual C++ 2005

One third of the way I got an error, ignored it and the installation process continued normally.
A while later it is telling me it installed successfully, yet as with Visual C# 2005 it crashes as soon as it starts.

- iTunes
Installs successfully, but very buggy and crashes more than it runs.

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