Wine PB under Ubuntu

[Andre Smit]

Simply copied my (WInXP installed) PBCC folder to the .wine folder.

I've just started experimenting:

PRINT outputs nothing - use STDOUT instead.
WAITKEY$ doesn't work.

[Mel Bishop]

Hmmm, interesting.

>>>...WAITKEY$ doesn't work...<<<

Have you tried INSTAT?

While INSTAT = 0 : Wend

Might work.

[Michael Mayerhoffer]

wine or better yet whine - what works on wine today does not work on the next build. A better "wine" is Crossover it is not free - runs a lot of MS stuff comes with support and a guarantee on what applications it runs. Last trial I tried did not run console applications out of the box. Console applications might run, it might of took some tweaking. I was not that interested in getting that to work.

All my PB GUI applications run trouble free on Crossover - your mileage may vary due to com or what ever is not loaded. Now that the PB compiler is 32 bit, it runs trouble free on Crossover also.

I think VM is a better and safer way to run windows on linux or unix. If it runs windows applications it most likely will run windows viruses.

[Michael Mattias]

>If it runs windows applications it most likely will run windows viruses.

I like that, a lot.