wine

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:09, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thezorch at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen
>     <kjetil1001 at gmail.com <mailto:kjetil1001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Hola!
>      >
>      > I'm trying to install maple under wine.  have windows installers
>     for maple,
>      > and want to install under wine.
>      > When looking at the cdrom in a windows pc, there is a
>     subdirectory /windows.
>      > But when looking on the cd in ubuntu, even directly from wine,
>     this drectory
>      > does not show up?!!
>      > What is happening? What to do?
>      >
> 
>     What is Maple?  If you mean Maple Story don't bother, it doesn't work
>     under Wine yet.  Its something to do with the Anti-Cheating software
>     that's included with it that doesn't work in Wine yet.  If not, please
>     clarify.
> 
>     I'm not certain why you are seeing different content on the CD in both
>     Windows and Linux.  WINE isn't an emulator like VMware, it provides an
>     API environment under Linux for Windows software without emulation and
>     thus there are some programs which aren't fully compatible with it
>     yet.  WINE is improving all the time though.  The developers, testers
>     and users of WINE maintain a database of software that does and
>     doesn't work under WINE on the software's website: www.winehq.org
>     <http://www.winehq.org>
> 
>     If that program is not the aforementioned Maple Story, have you
>     actually tried installing it to see if it will work?
> 
>  
> maple is a symbolic mathematics program, and it is listed in winehq appdb.
> I could'nt try to install, since the installer does'nt show up in the 
> file browser"
> 
> Kjetil
> 
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When you look at the CD on the M$ machine, does the /windows directory 
appear to be attributed system hidden or similar?  If this is the case, 
then you might only be able to see it as root in Linux - maybe.

To Michael:  I thought wine was short for Windows Emulator?  As far as I 
know, the VMWare thingis doesn't emulate anything, that's the whole 
idea, that in virtualbox etc. the OS is running without knowing that it 
is not the only master of the hardware - right?

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