Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Thanks for the tip. That would be awesome if I could use that to help get some of the Windows games up and running under wine. Especially, since I am down to one and a half Windows computers and several Linux boxes. Smile. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave th

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-11 Thread Tristan
The name Wine initially was an acronym for WINdows Emulator Later on it was derived from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator While the name sometimes appears in the forms WINE and wine, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form Wine. -- From Wikipedia: http://en.wikip

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-11 Thread Rynhardt Kruger
Hi, I use a shell script called winetricks. It gives you a GTK GUI to select the windows components e.g. SAPI or vb6 runtime and then automaticly installs it for you. I think one can get it from the wine website, however it is not supported by the wine project. Take care, Rynhardt * Thomas W

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Nicol, Sigh...No, Wine is not an abbreviation. It is just the name of the program. Now, could you please get back on topic here? Thanks. On 10/6/10, NIcol wrote: > Hi Tom > Do you know what the letters w, I,n, and e stands for? > Is the word wine an abbreviation? --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread NIcol
Hi Tom Do you know what the letters w, I,n, and e stands for? Is the word wine an abbreviation? - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Re

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Peter, No. If you want Sapi support for Wine you have to download Sapi 5.1 and install it manually into Wine. Since wine isn't exactly speech friendly you'll need sighted assistance installing Sapi support. Honestly running Windows XP through VMPlayer is a better solution in my opinion than Win

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread peter Mahach
al Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released! Hi Nicol, Wine is a free Windows emulator for Linux. You can use it to emulate games and other Win

Re: [Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Nicol, Wine is a free Windows emulator for Linux. You can use it to emulate games and other Windos appplications. On 10/6/10, NIcol wrote: > HI Tom > On 06 October 2010 05:40 AM you said: > "Well, that leaves us with wine. It is possible to get Visual Basic 6 > programs to run using Wine, but

[Audyssey] what is wine? RE: MOTA Beta 14 Released!

2010-10-06 Thread NIcol
HI Tom On 06 October 2010 05:40 AM you said: "Well, that leaves us with wine. It is possible to get Visual Basic 6 programs to run using Wine, but it is a major undertaking to get working." What does wine stand for? --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, sen