Wine for Windows in linux! XXX for Apple/OSX? What?

[nooby]

I dream of using electronic music instruments. Hahah so typical. Is it not Windows one need then it is Apple computers.

http://www.eigenlabs.com/pico/

The ultra-versatile Pico is simple to use and anyone can play it.

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With 18 playing keys and 4 mode keys, a strip controller and breath pipe, ... It plays an unlimited range of sounds(it) , represents a new and easier way to learn to play a musical instrument.

The Pico gives you freedom to express your creativity through improvisation like no other electronic instrument in existence.

The Pico requires a Mac computer to run. Click here for full software specification.

So one need a Linux distro that can mimic a Mac computer.

Is that legal to do? I do't know but no way I buy a Mac to be able to buy the Pico.

Why on earth did they not allow us with linux to use the Pico. Bleh

[russoodle]

Well, i don't know about all that, nooby...but isn't there always something someone wants that's only available on a particular platform?
I'd loan you my Mac to try it on but you're too far away

OT but while i'm here, i remember you mentioning recently that you were looking for a Swedish-language Puppy...if you haven't already seen this, might be worth checking out, it's nearly halfway down the page in the Non-English section:

Swedish - Exton
"LXDE desktop environment with Swedish language support."

http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?fi ... rchive.txt

[nooby]

Thanks, yes my 80 year old neighbor needs a puppy that have icon and menu and error text in Swedish. He feels too old to learn English. Even I who have written more English text than Swedish need to learn the language better. But I am too lazy.

Exton puppy is very different but better than nothing. I have to try it again on his computer. Something went wrong lat time we tried. Could be we need to add some cheat code for acpi or something that the more modern kernals don't need.

[DMcCunney]

So one need a Linux distro that can mimic a Mac computer.

Is that legal to do? I do't know but no way I buy a Mac to be able to buy the Pico.

Legal isn't the issue.

The first question is whether anything they do is specific to Mac hardware, or simply expects OS/X on the other end. It is possible to get OS/X running on PC hardware, but not simple. First, of course, you need OS/X, which you normally get with a Mac...

Why on earth did they not allow us with linux to use the Pico. Bleh

Why should they? Their target market is musicians, and those folks mostly run Macs to begin with. The Eigenharp folks created their software for what the users who would buy their gear run.

And note the full software specs: they want a 2ghz or better CPU, and 2GB of RAM. This excludes most of the kit people run Puppy on, even if they had a Linux port.

To add grist to your mill, they expect to have a Windows version in Summer 2010.
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Dennis

[nooby]

Their target market is musicians, and those folks mostly run Macs to begin with.

They do? Well I love music but I am no musician so I never had a need for a Mac. They had such at our local University and I would not accept one as a gift even if I got one for free.

So Windows has Wine but Apple/Mac/OSX refuse any such things AppleWine then. They want to be exclusively Mac!

[rjbrewer]

Mac Leopard runs quite well on a Lenovo s10 netbook.

[nooby]

thanks that is kind of Wow!

But they don't like one do such tinkering do they.

when my 80 year old neighbor used a unpaid version of Ms Windows then they locked his computer from using anything else so we put puppy on it.

Don't Apple have similar phone home tactics and locking?

[rjbrewer]

Probably has to be registered and paid for.

[DMcCunney]

Their target market is musicians, and those folks mostly run Macs to begin with.

They do? Well I love music but I am no musician so I never had a need for a Mac. They had such at our local University and I would not accept one as a gift even if I got one for free.

They do. Macs have always been favored in the arts. The original Mac shot itself in the foot for business users: they all got computers to run spreadsheets, and while spreadsheets were available for the Mac, it didn't have a numeric keypad (because Steve Jobs didn't like them), and a spreadsheet is painful to use heavily without one.

But they found and kept a niche in the arts. If you're a designer, for example, you run Photoshop and Illustrator on a Mac. The Gimp is good, but it's not Photoshop. Nothing else is.

The same for music. The Mac is a good multi-media platform, and music editing and composition software for it beats anything on other platforms.

Likewise film making. A friend went into debt to acquire a high end Mac to run video editing software, because it was the best platform for doing that.

So Windows has Wine but Apple/Mac/OSX refuse any such things AppleWine then. They want to be exclusively Mac!

Nope. You can dual boot Mac OS/X and Windows on a Mac using Boot Camp or Parallels. Apple doesn't care if you run Windows, as long as you run it on a Mac you bought from them.

Dual booting Windows and Mac OS/X is also possible, but noit easy, and first, you have to have OS/X...
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Dennis