On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:55, Bill Allen wrote: Hi Bill. Someone sent me sfarkxtc, but DOH, I found out all my DL'd .sfArk's were V1. DL'd the few demo's on melodymachines site, and these unpack ok. I do have to say that I'm rather disappointed with wine. The only program I've got to run on wine is seti at home, apart from Winamp, and why anyone woiuld want Winamp when there are many native Linux media players I don't know. Even seti at home on my FC2 install, which started off doing 8 or 9 data units, now only does 3 or 4 before freezing up, and refusing to send the results back to seti at home's server. Sorry for the rant. I've spent a lot of hours trying to get wine to install 2 freebie softsynths that I've got, and Making Waves, a step sequencer that I paid the licence fee for, for use on Win XP. I will try sfarkxtc under wine. I;m not that annoyed that I won't give it a go, and I know that Mark Knecht and others are really trying to get vsti's working under wine. I'll try wine with sfarkxtc with a positive attitude, otherwise, I think I'll give Win ME an airing, which only ever goes online to get third party security updates. It will probably be delighted to have access to the desktop, and will willingly unpack the .sfArk's , after I have installed the program. Linux rules. Windows sucks. Nigel. ps: To Win ME. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you unpack the sfArk's for me.

On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:55, Bill Allen wrote: Hi Bill. I sort of take back what I said about wine. SfArk works under wine on FC2, and so does the sfpack program, although that won't start from the wine menu, but anyway it works. So, sort of a thumbs up for wine for these two fairly basic programs. I suppose it's moving forwards, rather than backwards. Nigel.

On Saturday 29 October 2005 21:12, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Mark. Right. I'm having another go at wine. The software mixed in with a bit of the liquid version. Wine on one of my FC2 installs is 20041019-1. This is the one I've got Seti at home running on, and the two soundfont decompressers. That doesn't seem to handle music apps very well, but I got some stuff that was on the Audigy2 soundblaster cdrom to run on it. I've just DL'd version 0.9-1 for FC1,2 and 3. Also for Debian Sarge with apt-get. This seems to be getting a lot better. No more config file for a start. I set winecfg's MS version as Win98, as suggested. Audio is auto detected as Alsa. I did run config for that after a while, as the apps I had running were just showing Sigmatel Stac9721/23, but after running config then showed emu10k1. Madtracker installs ok, setting a desktop icon, and an entry in KDE's menu under Wine. Mod Plug Tracker will run under wine, but doesn't create an entry in c's program files, so I effectively have to reinstall it each time I want to use it. Anyway. It works. Making Waves, the step sequencer that I actually paid the licence fee for, for use on XP, creates a GUI, but uses a lot of CPU. This mainly seems to be when it's searching for sound files. When I eventually get a .wav onto a track the CPU useage settles down. The .wav plays ok, but as soon as I want to add another track, the CPU hits the roof again. The strange thing about Making Waves is. When I install it, it asks where I want to put it, so I choose c's program files, but it puts it in c/windows/temp, in a directory named ckz.tmp60f. 60f isn't constant, as each time I reinstall it the suffix added to .tmp changes. Also, and a bit weird, stuff disappears out of the directory each time I start the program from that directory. For instance it had a directory "VST-Plugins" , also a binary named setup.exe. As soon as I ran the Making Waves.exe through wine from this directory, these two items, and others disappeared from the directory, never to be seen again. In conclusion, wine is getting better, and it must be an horendous problem for the wine folks trying to get all these windows apps running on Linux. Not giving up on wine. Nigel. ps: Mark. Can you post the link for .dll's . I thought I'd kept it, but can't find it.