e-Sword and Wine

[James Takac]

On Friday 30 November 2007 08:18:56 anthony baldwin wrote:
> Willis wrote:
> > Tom Bamford wrote:
> >> Willis wrote:
> >>> I am attempting to run e-Sword and I have it installed through Wine.  I
> >>> am running an AMD Duron @ b1.3 gig with 1 gig of SD Memory.  The splash
> >>> screen comes up and the program frames appear but no text in any frame.
> >>> Anybody have an idea to fix it?
> >>
> >> I have got the latest version of e-Sword to work by downloading
> >> riched20.dll (from dll-files.com) into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
> >> and adding a DLL override for e-Sword.exe to use riched20.dll using the
> >> winecfg utility.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Tom
> >
> > Thanks Tom, I have downloaded, unzipped the file and placed it in my
> > storage directory.  I cannot, however, find the location you directed me
> > to as I cannot find ~/.wine in my file system.
>
> Why didn't you just use gnome-sword or bibletime?
> Heck, there's a ubuntu based Christian distro that comes with
> them all pre-fabbed right in. (and a verse o' the day karamba,
> and fishy wallpapers and stuff).
> www.ichthux.com
>
> /tony
>
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Hi Anthony

I've used the alternatives and alas they just don't come close for 
functionality as it were. esword imho is much better when working

James