Reply to thread VA5k and VARPC *do* work under wine, but it can be a faff. A vanilla wine install won't include the necessary dlls, so you'd have to get these from somewhere. CrossoverOffice doesn't work ATM (their wine branch is due for an update). I don't know about WineX, but that's not such a nice solution anyway (they don't feed back to the main Wine tree). Personally, I've installed VA5k under a vanilla wine build, with dlls copied across from CrossoverOffice. It works pretty well and isn't too slow provided I don't use too large a screen mode (1024x768 works OK). There are some problems with the latest upgrades, though (it fubared mouse support here). To drag this back on topic, if eQ can produce a standard system with VRPC running on linux, that would be a Good Thing IMO (arguments about emulation to one side - just compare running on linux to running on XP). However, I couldn't see any comments about this on their site - but building a linux + RISC OS system using only Flash storage could be expensive for the amount of space needed! johnpettigrew on 8/12/03 9:54AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Please login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.

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