Revolution and WINE

[Devin Asay]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Those who are interested in running Windows applications on a Mac  
> Intel without buying an emulater, without having to restart, and  
> without buying Windows, the following might be interesting.
>
> Today, I compiled and installed WINE on my Mac Intel (Wine Is Not  
> an Emulator <http://www.winehq.org>). It appears that simple  
> Revolution standalones run nicely in WINE.
>
> I also opened Revolution for Windows in WINE. It appears that menus  
> may get hidden after a system window, if you use system windows,  
> and pictures with alpha masks don't render. There are probably more  
> problems connected to graphical display. Everything else seems to  
> work just fine.

Mark,

Did you try this with 2.9 beta? I wonder if these graphics display  
problems could be related to BZ #1076, which was reported fixed in dp-1.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University