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Steam through Wine

It would be nice if companies would develop for Linux, but since they haven't yet, Wine works.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1554

Umm, correct me if I'm wrong but X-wing vs. Tie Fighter was a 9x game (although my understanding is that Windows 95 was implemented with DOS system calls as a subset). Dosbox does implement a 386 emulator but not Windows 95/98 system calls to my knowledge including DirectX that later versions of XvT used. You may be interested in the wine page for XvT (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8156). P.S. You might need the D3D patch for XvT which also came with the Balance of Power campaign for Wine to work.

It is not done yet but it is still being developed on. One day there will be a WINE for Windows Vista and Windows 7.0 to run XP applications.

Read the FAQ and you'll see how many applications that WINE supports and then match that with the XP applications that Vista supports.

I did and I found that WINE supports more "legacy applications" than Vista does. Stuff like Visual BASIC 6.0 you can run in WINE, but not Vista (Unless you have a VB 6.0 SP6 Install CD, older versions won't install for me.)

Wine Is Not an Emulator.

I commented when it is needed. A pet hate of mine of is over commented code. Sane naming is much better than comments.

I'm not against a comment above the function explaining the function's roll. That doesn't get in the way.
And of course this is often for automatic documentation.
Wine I feel is an example of getting it right, not too much, not too little, http://source.winehq.org/

Anyone who duplicates code in comment form needs to be shot!
Can they not read code? If not, what the hell are they doing writing it!
I have see code so heavy commented you couldn't read the code. I've seen code where the function is called GetName with a comment telling you it gets the name. I wish I was joking.

And finish hashing out the whole new /dev/, dbus, etc. and settle the API down enough to document the damned thing. I know UNIX, but this new stuff totally confuses me. WHere does one go to even find out how it is supposed to work? Which of course isn't how it currently DOES sorta work. How does one even know if a particular piece of documentation, sketchy and incomplete as it will certainly be, documents what was, what currently is or what is intended to be?

Documen-what? Use the source Luke. This is big part why I love open source. Source is the ultimate documentation. I can read how anything I fancy works! Documentation is always going to have problems keeping up with the source. Source should be written to read (or at least refactored to read, or at least commented when neither is possible). I know it sounds crazy, but I honestly find http://source.winehq.org/ some of the best COM/Win32 documentation. It sometimes suffers from not matching the exact behaviour, or not being implemented, but that's about the same as msdn. ;-)

Just wish I could drop Windows entirely and still get paid....

The main problem with linux desktop usage is that all the games are made for Windows

What about this list of the Top 25 Linux Games for 2008? There's a nice variety of games on that list from different genres.

I haven't played them all, but I have a few installed on my Gentoo system at home.

I'm sure there are other decent/good Linux games out there as well. You can also bring some Windows games to Linux via WINE. There are some popular games on their Top 10 Platinum List and the Top 10 Gold List (scroll down past Platinum) on the WINE appdb site including World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Guild Wars, Counter Strike: Source, Silkroad Online, Half-Life 2, and others.

So it's not like gaming on Linux is non-existant. It's much more than just simple games like kbounce or kasteroids, kminesweeper or the other 10+ mini-games (like Solitare on Windows) that come with the OS.

I think I'd recommend Nlite, although there are other means of accomplishing this task. It does appear to run in Wine.

For one, "most consoles" do not need hack and mod to run homebrew.

My source says Wii is just 2.6 million consoles short of outselling Xbox 360 and PS3 combined. And there is no official Community Games or Linux program for Wii; warioworld.com says you need a corporation, a leased office, and a previous title on another platform to qualify.

You can write your own games, TODAY, for the Xbox 360 using Visual Studio

If you buy a computer capable of running Visual Studio. The hardware has to be new enough, and the operating system has to be Windows. (XNA Game Studio is based on Visual C# Express, which fails in Wine.) The iPod Touch has the same restriction: you have to buy a Mac for $600 and a USB KVM switch for $60, even if you do get Xcode at no additional charge. In addition, as I understand it, if you've already written a PC game in C++, you have to rewrite all the physics and AI in C# because it's difficult to make C++ code meet the "verifiably type-safe" bar that XNA's use of the CLR requires. Rewrites introduce bugs.

and upload them to Xbox Live where you have access to a huge market approaching the size of the iPhone market. [...] the App Store model for the iPhone is the Wrong Way(tm).

The model of Creators Club (a $99 per year certificate to run homebrew) plus Community Games isn't too much different from the model of an iPhone SDK certificate plus the App Store.

The PS3 has Linux.

And, I'm told, less graphics performance than a PlayStation 1 due to the RSX lockout. Or has OpenGL on the Cell materialized yet?

The GPS thing is entirely about revenue streams ... it costs a ton of money to create digital maps, and TomTom like devices are a significant source of the revenue for them. Providing open APIs to do turn by turn GPS directions isn't going to happen whilst these devices pay the bills at the data providers.

How does Google Maps pay the bills?

I recently put on Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my wife's computer and it's hands down the best release yet.

I'd like to install Ubuntu on my Mac however one of the reasons for doing so is so I can use CinePaint to edit photos but it was removed from Ubuntu. So now unless I can find a way to install CinePaint in Ubuntu I don't think I'll install it.

However, i'm still in no mans land as My scanner, art pad, and games rely on windows xp

Watcom tablets work on Ubuntu. As do scanners. I have an Epson Perfection V500 scanner others have gotten to work on Ubuntu.

I truly wish Adobe would port over photoshop to Linux.

So do I but people have gotten CS2 to run in CrossOver and CS3 in WINE. Others have gotten CS4 to run in Ubuntu, though not perfectly.

If I can't get CinePaint to install I may end up getting Photoshop myself. I want to try CinePaint first though to see if it will do what I want. If I do get PH I'll probably buy it off eBay where older versions can be bought cheap then upgraded.

Falcon

Ever try those games under wine?

With Wine I have IE6 and IE7 installed. They sorta function, I use them to access IE-only sites, and that's about it.

As of 1.1.19 IE8 is installable.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16041

You can get Wine on Windows.
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows?

With Wine I have IE6 and IE7 installed. They sorta function, I use them to access IE-only sites, and that's about it.

As of 1.1.19 IE8 is installable.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16041

You can get Wine on Windows.
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows?

You know, you could look it up yourself. It's not very hard.

You know, you could look it up yourself. It's not very hard.

You know, you could look it up yourself. It's not very hard.

You know, you could look it up yourself. It's not very hard.

Apparently, Wine Does run crysis: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10107

Just not perfectly.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

Here is a list of games (and communication apps) that I tried to get working recently and the result:

Cross Fire (www.crossfire-en.com)
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-Complete failure via wine. Tried via virtualbox w/ wined3d, crashed X server.

Team Fortress 2
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=9335
-wine appdb reports TF2 as a "gold" game. Great, I thought. Installed fine, but the framerates were absolutely horrible! Severe stuttering and fps lag on a system that rarely drops below 100fps with all eyecandy enabled (c2d 3+ghz, 8800gtx). Under wine, I would drop to 5-10fps frequently whenever more than a few players are on screen. Unplayable.

Ventrilo Client
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2169
-Yet another app that is reported as "gold". Client installs after significant tinkering. Unfortunately, push to talk does not work unless ventrilo is active window (effectively making it useless if you are in game and attempt to chat in real-time). There are several scripts that supposedly fix this PTT focus issue; none of them worked for me on Jaunty x64. So, the primary VOIP client that I use for gaming was useless to me.

Xfire
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2573
-Another supposed silver/gold app. Xfire installs fine, but the text on the main window is garbled. It is also unstable. Workaround = installing the gfire plugin for pidgin to chat to friends on xfire. It has no in-game functionality, but it works.

Quake Live
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15796&iTestingId=37688
-Yet another gold app that I could not get working properly.

Left 4 Dead
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14592
-Gold app, even rated as Platinum by one submitter. Works, but performance is terrible compared to native under windows.

Wine is a great tool, but it leaves much to be desired. Is this really a 1.x program? Probably not. Are some of these games really worthy of a Gold or Platinum rating? Definitely not. Admins should be reviewing these submissions.

So I do appreciate the fact that you've had some success with wine. It appears, however, that we're just playing different games.

But the great thing is that there are umpteen different ways to use most of that free software in open-source operating systems. Virtualization is probably the most reliable, but the progress in Wine has been astounding and it works great for running VirtualDub, and can use Windows video encoders like the XviD binaries for Windows. And I've been watching online television from CTV in Firefox using the Silverlight plugin, so that is a testament to progress in Mono.

Microsoft: "We want all open source innovation to happen on Windows. In practice, Windows is too slow, and just putting Linux underneath the same software stack triples performance. So we're running the Windows versions of the software on Linux using Wine. We'll also be funding the Wine on Windows initiative."

Wine for Windows!

(Well, there might be by then ...)

It's impossible to have a "XP compatible OS" since the OS would have to support WIN32 API. The WIN32 API is copyrighted so if Microsoft doesn't license it to you, you can't use it.

ReactOS and WINE have already reimplimented the Windows API from scratch as open source, thus there aren't copyright issues.

ReactOS already runs a surprising number of Windows apps, and WINE's been rather successful at running Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like OSes.

Entirely incorrect.

You have to buy the $29.99 version to get the features you mentioned, going to portable players etc. They say the full version works on Wine as well.

In a perverse twist of fate, moments after my post I got this: A NOTE has been added to this issue.

https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704

Reported By: Crimmy
Assigned To: Product Management

Project: DAZ Studio
Issue ID: 25704
Category: Other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: new
Platform: PC

Date Submitted: 2008-08-12 15:05 CDT
Last Modified: 2009-04-09 14:37 CDT

Summary: DAZ Studio for Linux
Description:
I would very much like to see a Linux version of DAZ Studio. I use SuSE Linux and it is a very stable and user-friendly operating system and I would use it often. This would enable Linux users who are interested in DAZ Studio and Poser the opportunity to buy content that is usable in their platform. It would even be worthwhile distributing it as part of the OpenSuSE distribution, whereby it would check for updates at DAZ website repository and grab the latest version the way other Linux programs do.

(0046202) smahlum (administrator) - 2008-08-27 09:18
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c46202

Feature request from this user.


(0051664) un_pobre_guey (reporter) - 2009-04-01 22:53
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c51664

I concur. It has been several versions of DS since I have gotten it to run under wine (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12931#c1). I used to use it exclusively under Ubuntu, then had to switch to XP. Now, after a windows update, it hangs and crashes there as well even after a reinstall. Given that 1) it is written with the Qt libraries and 2) Qt is a cross-platform framework that runs very well under GNU/Linux, it is baffling that there still is no native Linux version. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a Linux version! Do it for Ubuntu if you have to choose a specific distro!

(0051913) zigraphix (reporter) - 2009-04-09 14:37
https://bugs.daz3d.com/view.php?id=25704#c51913

I use Ubuntu and I have trouble under Wine as well. I know it's partially due to the ATI driver support on Linux, but it would be nice not to have that extra Wine layer in there causing problems.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change

2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy New Issue
2008-08-12 15:05 Crimmy Platform => PC
2008-08-12 15:07 Crimmy Issue Monitored: Crimmy
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Note Added: 0046202
2008-08-27 09:18 smahlum Assigned To DAZ QA Manager =>
Product Management
2008-12-17 15:51 DAZ QA Manager Project DAZ Studio => DAZ
Studio Private Beta
2008-12-29 15:08 Heather Minson Project DAZ Studio Private Beta
DAZ Studio
2009-04-01 22:53 un_pobre_guey Note Added: 0051664
2009-04-09 14:37 zigraphix Note Added: 0051913

Or just use better money management software. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=107

You might want to take a look at Wine. It does not support all applications 100% (Adobe products being notorious for not working as they should), but it's getting there. Take a look through their appdb page, maybe your applications and all you need is already quite Linux-Ready.

Good news for you: a number of popular Windows games (such as Civ 4) run well in Wine. (hint: look up "winetricks" and use that) Some versions of MS money are reported to work, though I have not tried them. You might instead want to try installing GNUCash for Windows and see how easy it is to migrate your data.

As to your dual-boot issues: I have not had the same problem as you, but I do sympathize. I think dual-boot support has come a long way in the past few years. If you back up your Windows registry before you install Linux, you should at least not have to re-install all your apps if things go wrong.

Good news for you: a number of popular Windows games (such as Civ 4) run well in Wine. (hint: look up "winetricks" and use that) Some versions of MS money are reported to work, though I have not tried them. You might instead want to try installing GNUCash for Windows and see how easy it is to migrate your data.

As to your dual-boot issues: I have not had the same problem as you, but I do sympathize. I think dual-boot support has come a long way in the past few years. If you back up your Windows registry before you install Linux, you should at least not have to re-install all your apps if things go wrong.

Good news for you: a number of popular Windows games (such as Civ 4) run well in Wine. (hint: look up "winetricks" and use that) Some versions of MS money are reported to work, though I have not tried them. You might instead want to try installing GNUCash for Windows and see how easy it is to migrate your data.

As to your dual-boot issues: I have not had the same problem as you, but I do sympathize. I think dual-boot support has come a long way in the past few years. If you back up your Windows registry before you install Linux, you should at least not have to re-install all your apps if things go wrong.

I would suggest wine, but it doesn't look good: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=79

Yup - Wine has had quite a bit of success with these projects. Here's a link:

• http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode/PreviousProjects

We have all sorts of people apply to work on our SoC projects. The most successful SoC projects are ones where the student already has active involvement in the community and has already committed patches.

He's talking about Photoshop CS3, not Counter Strike Source.

CS3 appears to be supported just fine on Wine. Have you posted on the wine-users mailing list regarding the issues you are having running it?

What if it's not in your current repositories?

What if it's not in the App Store?

That has happened to me twice -- once because I wanted the newest Wine, and once because I wanted the latest Firefox beta. In the case of Wine, I followed these simple steps. In the case of the Firefox beta, I think I just copy and pasted some commands given by Mozilla. Neither one of those can begin to compare to the hoops I had to jump through to install the Zune software on Vista (I spent the better part of an hour googling a cryptic installation error, tried all of the Microsoft solutions, none of which worked, and then finally found I had to turn the Windows Firewall on) or the Silverlight addons for Visual Studio.