Sibelius Scorch under Wine

[Colin Law]

On 10 September 2012 14:00, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2012 22:14, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> A couple of years ago (well 6 actually) Alan Pope provided some
>> instructions on getting Sibelius Scorch working under Wine [1] .
>> Unfortunately following them now provides a system that though it
>> basically works crashes repeatedly with "memory corruption in windows
>> process heaps".   Does anyone have any more up to date experience with
>> this?
>
> I suppose the first question is simply: do you have the current
> version of WINE installed and working, with Firefox running
> successfully under it?

I believe so (it is actually a remote family member I am supporting).
I am going to get her to try the latest Wine from ppa to see if that
helps.

>
> The other option would be VirtualBox with a very cut-down installation
> of Windows in it. I use TinyXP for this purpose.

That is an interesting idea.  Thanks.

Colin

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