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What works

Everything that is not in the "What does not work" section.

What does not

Video playback. Grammar section. Windows helper does not launch.

Workarounds

What was not tested

many things were not tested :P

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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• Driver:

Additional Comments

Data access seems to be the problem on this software. However it seems wine will handle that soon in next releases. You can launch the help files externally as well as the videos. However, The "video" section does not launch as it cannot find the video.

(Old notes)

It can install on wine, however it detects some sort of error and deletes all the files. Depending on the installer version, you may have to run it in a virtual desktop. On wine 0.9.43 , on a win98 fresh config, it will attempt to install Dcom. wine will stop the process and complain. You can then rename the directory so the files dont get deleted. You may need some japanese true font types. It is possible to fool the app into thinking that it is reading the from the lesson CD when it is actually reading from the disk (tweak on .wine/config ) and make it run a lot faster than on windows . the app is pretty much very usable and works at 90%. What does not work : can't play the few videos included in the lessons (quartz.dll is a stub), but those are mpg and can be played externally. Calling winhelp does not work. Bad audio config will make the app crash. I use OSS standard hardware acceleration and the speech recognition software runs very nicely, without crashing.

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­It can install on wine, however
it detects some sort of error and deletes all the files. On
wine 0.9.43 , on a win98 fresh config, it will attempt to install Dcom.
wine will stop the process and complain. You can then rename the
directory so the files dont get deleted. You may need some japanese
true font types. It is possible to fool the app into thinking that it
is reading the from the lesson CD when it is actually reading from the
disk (tweak on .wine/config ) and make it run a lot faster than on
windows . the app is pretty much very usable and works at 90%. What
does not work :
can't play the few videos included in the lessons (quartz.dll is a
stub), but those are mpg and can be played externally. Calling winhelp
does not work. Bad audio config will make the app crash. I use OSS
standard hardware acceleration and the speech recognition software runs
very nicely, without crashing.