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sej7278 · 28-09-2005

WINE stands for Wine Is Not An Emulator. It basically translates Windows API calls to Linux ones, it doesn't do hardware emulation, which is why it only runs on x86. You can even get a version of WINE called Cedega that allows you to play DirectX games, so it's not slow obviously.

Photoshop installs easily and runs great, especially if you use the version of WINE called Crossover Office (named as it was originally written to ease installing MS Office under WINE on Linux).

DVD Decrypter and Shrink are a bit cludgey, but basically everything works, bit of a cow to get setup though.

As is the point of this thread - no, AnyDVD/ CloneDVD do not run in any way on Linux - well you can run them under VMWare, but that still means installing Windows.

28-09-2005	#18 (permalink)
sej7278 CD Freaks Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 219	Re: AnyDVD for Linux? WINE stands for Wine Is Not An Emulator. It basically translates Windows API calls to Linux ones, it doesn't do hardware emulation, which is why it only runs on x86. You can even get a version of WINE called Cedega that allows you to play DirectX games, so it's not slow obviously. Photoshop installs easily and runs great, especially if you use the version of WINE called Crossover Office (named as it was originally written to ease installing MS Office under WINE on Linux). DVD Decrypter and Shrink are a bit cludgey, but basically everything works, bit of a cow to get setup though. As is the point of this thread - no, AnyDVD/ CloneDVD do not run in any way on Linux - well you can run them under VMWare, but that still means installing Windows.