Subject: Re: Bug with emulators/wine
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/26/2002 21:22:25
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:01:12AM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> Bang Jun-Young said:
> > I suspect it's caused by lack of support for IPX ("netipx") in NetBSD.
> > Is there anybody interested in porting netipx from Free or OpenBSD to
> > NetBSD?
> 
> I don't think so -- other things didn't work other than Starcraft that most
> certainly don't need IPX. StarCraft's installed, for example, never would
> come up (I did the install on a WinMe machine and copied Program
> Files/StarCraft over the network).
> 
> Winamp's installer worked fine, but hung when I tried to run it as well.

Wine has tons of bugs and it's very difficult to fix them (I remember
rumor of Wine 1.0 has been floating around the Net since 1996 or so).
Maybe we should write a new one from scratch? :-)

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>