I've succeeded in running the wonderful charting program OziExplorer (3.85.3c), http://www.oziexplorer.com/ , on LINUX (RedHat 6.2) using WINE 20010112. The times to load the program and to load a map did take 5 to 8 times longer using WINE than they did using WIN95. I was able to enable the serial port and have the position computed by my GPS displayed on the chart. OziExplorer is a wonderful shareware charting program that can use just about any scanned image as a map or chart; the user can calibrate it by specifying several latitudes and longitudes on the image. It can also display the users current position if a GPS is connected to the serial port. I used the default compile and install from the WINE sources. I changed the default permissions on ttyS0 to r/w for user. I started Ozi with: wine --managed oziexp3853c.exe task WIN95 time WINE time start pgm 10 sec 80 sec load chart 6 sec 50 sec 13235_1 NFN The program will also download waypoints from the GPS, but this feature did not work under WINE (and did work OK with WIN95).
In comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine Jim Doutt <jdoutt@whoi.edu> wrote:> I've succeeded in running the wonderful charting program > OziExplorer (3.85.3c), http://www.oziexplorer.com/ , on > LINUX (RedHat 6.2) using WINE 20010112. The times to load > the program and to load a map did take 5 to 8 times longer > using WINE than they did using WIN95. I was able to enable > the serial port and have the position computed by my GPSThis is more or less WRONG. Wine is a complete Windows bootup, never forget that ;-)> displayed on the chart.> I started Ozi with: wine --managed oziexp3853c.exe> task WIN95 time WINE time> start pgm 10 sec 80 sec> load chart 6 sec 50 sec > 13235_1 NFNHmm, now "load chart" is astonishing. That shouldn't happen. Well, some function is probably rather bad here ;-)> The program will also download waypoints from the GPS, but > this feature did not work under WINE (and did work OK with > WIN95).Hmm, serial comm problems again ? Andreas Mohr
"Maximum Linux " magazine had a comparison of a few Win emulators in its current issue. For those Linux fans out there, this might be useful info. I know at least one thread happened on this exact subject a few months back. "Jim Doutt" <jdoutt@whoi.edu> wrote in message news:3A88032F.204EA29E@whoi.edu...> I've succeeded in running the wonderful charting program > OziExplorer (3.85.3c), http://www.oziexplorer.com/ , on > LINUX (RedHat 6.2) using WINE 20010112. The times to load > the program and to load a map did take 5 to 8 times longer > using WINE than they did using WIN95. I was able to enable > the serial port and have the position computed by my GPS > displayed on the chart. > > OziExplorer is a wonderful shareware charting program that > can use just about any scanned image as a map or chart; the > user can calibrate it by specifying several latitudes and > longitudes on the image. It can also display the users > current position if a GPS is connected to the serial port. > > I used the default compile and install from the WINE > sources. I changed the default permissions on ttyS0 to r/w > for user. > > I started Ozi with: wine --managed oziexp3853c.exe > > task WIN95 time WINE time > > start pgm 10 sec 80 sec > > load chart 6 sec 50 sec > 13235_1 NFN > > > > The program will also download waypoints from the GPS, but > this feature did not work under WINE (and did work OK with > WIN95). > > > >