Windows Emulator for Slack???

digitaldeity · 08-17-2003, 01:34 AM

I swear I saw a Win 95 emulator install with slackware 9...but is there? How can I emulate my windows software with Slack?

slakmagik · 08-17-2003, 02:07 AM

Don't know about Windows 95. There's dosemu which can do DOS and some Win3x, I think and WINE which can do Windows but I don't think Slack comes with either by default. There's some stuff about getting Perl and MS to play nice but that's about it, I think.

If you've got the full Slack disk set it might be different.

So the install went okay?

ZombieChan · 08-17-2003, 06:40 PM

You are probably talking about Wine or VMWare

Wine:
http://www.winehq.com/

VMWare:
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131345/

Unfortunately, WMWare costs a bit of money. Not a little bit, either. Wine is free and works great, but takes some patience to get things working at first.

I hope this helps.

CrsH · 08-18-2003, 03:28 AM

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Originally posted by digitaldeity
I swear I saw a Win 95 emulator install with slackware 9...but is there? How can I emulate my windows software with Slack?

The thing you say I think was the X desktop, It's called fwm95

for emulation you are better off with wine or VMWare indeed

digitaldeity · 08-18-2003, 07:17 PM

Which is easyer to use? Wine or Vmware? ( or whatever its called? ) How do I set up wine to use it? I keep getting an type 1 or 2 error or something like that!

CrsH · 08-19-2003, 12:51 AM

Well I've used the CVS version from winex. and the only problem is that the program tools/wineinstall didn't work

but if you configure it manually then everything works perfect

VMWare I only have experience on windows for it

snype · 10-05-2003, 04:08 PM

depends what ur doing wine is fine for some apps (very few) see my kazaa lite how to

but vmware actually runs a versiona of win 95 in a window

TheOneAndOnlySM · 10-05-2003, 10:53 PM

vmware works nicely, but only necessary if there are some really advanced and good windows programs out there that linux doesn't have availiable (personally, i like wine, but photoshop, illustrator, and some macromedia programs work better under vmware than wine)

i recommend vmware because you are going to be able to use an actual windows os but it will always be in check because it runs within linux itself, so if it crashes, big deal, linux will not be affected

only problem is the money issue...

NSKL · 10-06-2003, 11:24 AM

You can always get 30day VMware trial. I got it, and it worked great! The only problem is that slack uses BSD init =scripts while VMware needs sysV init scripts, so some minor hacking is needed. Search google for slackware and VMware and one of the first pages that comes out will show you how to make VMware and slack play together. Indeed VMware is great as far as i tried it, but the performance using wine, imho is better, which makes sense since VMware is running whole window OS in a box while wine runs only one program. In other words VMware needs quite a bit of resources, but it does work very nicely indeed...
-NSKL