[OT] Shockwave on Linux

[Richmond Mathewson]

For those of you who are wondering (Mark Weider ???):

http://www.oup.com/elt/incredibleenglish/

which I understand are FREEly downloadable:

http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/1960?cc=global

A fantastic resource (well, Mark, if you can put up with the
English accents).

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.

Bernard Devlin wrote:
> Richmond,
>
> It looks like you might have solved your problem.  However, you may be
> pleasantly surprised by Wine.  There may well be circumstances in
> which it will provide a good solution.
>
> I run Lotus Notes under Wine on my Linux netbook, which has a
> relatively slow processor and only 512mb of RAM.  Yet Notes runs
> faster under Wine than on my much faster dual processor Vista laptop
> with 1gb of RAM (even with all of Vista's eye candy stripped out and
> all unnecessary services stopped).
>
> I realise that the Wine community is not able to tune their code for
> every Windows app, and Notes is probably one of those where they have
> spent considerable time getting it to work.
>
> But still, I was astonished to see what Wine can do.  Note to self:
> remember, Wine is not an emulator.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richmond Mathewson
> <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> However, the Shockwave
>> Player can be installed
>>                  on Linux with CrossOver or by running a Windows version of
>> a supported browser
>>                 in Wine (with varying degrees of success)."
>>
>> Which sounded really heavy and not at all suitable for my Pentium IIIs. As
>> well as involving too
>> much hard work on my part :)
>>
>>     
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