wine users - Oct 2008 - Help Getting Program to Run

Hello,
I am a new Wine user and have what is perhaps an odd request. I am trying to
switch over to Ubuntu completely but haven't done that just yet. I have a
Windows XP host machine with Ubuntu (8.10) installed as a VirtualBox guest
machine. I have installed Wine on Ubuntu. My wife loves the Windows Spider game
so I thought I would try to get that to run under Wine. Alas, no luck.
I have searched numerous sources but have found no specific answer. I have found
that most programs need a setup program to be installed in Wine. But, the Spider
game, as far as I know, has no setup program. I tried just copying the program
into the Wine programs folder and that does work but it is very slow and, for my
wife, difficult to get to. So, any help would be appreciated.

Thx

wah fun wrote:
> I tried just copying the program into the Wine programs folder and that
does work but it is very slow and, for my wife, difficult to get to.

Of course it would be slow - you running it in virtual machine on virtualized
video.

Spider game? As in Spider Solitaire? You can use alternatives in Linux, like
PySol (which contains over a hundred different solitaire games).

i agree with DaVince... first try to get an alternative linux native program and
see if you like it - they are so many around you will not miss most of ur
windows applications. nless it has a sentimental value... :P