[linux-audio-user] SoundDiver Clone?

[Aidan Mark Humphreys]

Mark Knecht wrote

>Have you tried running Sound Diver under Wine? It's on my to do 
>list.

Hi Mark,

No I haven't tried it under Wine, for this reason...

SD needs to authorise itself against the CD periodically. 
Precisely what it does during this procedure is anyone's guess. 
All I know is that it takes around 3 minutes on my W98 PC. The 
machine frezes druing the authorisation and some very very 
scary noises come form the HD and CDROM drive. 

I remember in the 80s there were once some odd copy protection 
schemes that stored key data in illegal sectors on the HD. The 
odd behaviour during authorisation make me think of that. I 
suspect the chances of authorisation working on a foreign file 
system, under an emulator are about 0. I have visions of it 
cutting a hole in my HD if I tried it under Linux. 

>Have you tried running Sound Diver under Wine? It's on my to do 
>list

You are a brave man than I. Let me know how you get on.

A.