Back in 2000 I went on a mission to get rid of windows completely from the house. I succeeded in 2007... however, the company I worked for is using the Apple iPhone for their phones... so now I'm right back in the mess with windows. I was just curious what would it take to get the following working flawlessly in wine. (besides a miracle.) 1. iTunes (with USB support for updating the iPhone) 2. Older games such as Klingon Academy, Starfleet Command 1, etc 3. IPX support, since that's how all these older games talked to each other. 4. Garmin WebUpdater, for updating GPS firmware 5. Garmin Mapsource I realize there is Linux equivalent software for some of this, it's just for one reason or another I end up having to revisit them. So I was just wonder what resources it would take... or how much money sunk into the project, or what? Just curious.
> I was just curious what would it take to get the following working flawlessly in wine. ?(besides a miracle.) > > 1. ?iTunes ?(with USB support for updating the iPhone) > 2. ?Older games such as Klingon Academy, Starfleet Command 1, etc > 3. ?IPX support, since that's how all these older games talked to each other. > 4. ?Garmin WebUpdater, for updating GPS firmware > 5. ?Garmin Mapsource >A couple of these will require the experimental USB support.> > > I realize there is Linux equivalent software for some of this, it's just for one reason or another I end up having to revisit them. > > So I was just wonder what resources it would take... or how much money sunk into the project, or what? ? ? Just curious. >I would say the best bet would be more programmers interested in doing voluntary/free work implementing the missing parts. Along with more testers or users doing regression tests. I do not think money will help much unless the sum is in 10s of millions of dollars. Certainly a few hundred will have little effect if it is used to pay programmers to write code. John
The first and best thing to do is to actually test it out yourself. I'm imagining the older games will work, and IPX support *might* work. However, USB support in iTunes and any other hardware support like for your GPS will NOT run on stock Wine. You may have some luck with the Wine USB patches (if these still work in latest Wine, I don't know)... but don't count on it.