[Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu

[Bill Pierce]

Keith, in Mint, I just used the software search tool and searched for Wine, then searched that catagory for directx and found quite a few components. Basically they are drivers and libraries.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 7:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu


On 13-04-19 05:59 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> On 13-04-19 05:48 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
>> Keith,
>> No, Directx is just used to draw the actual Coco screen and for 
>> sound. The DX support for linux has many different parts and if one 
>> needed part is missing, then that part will fail. The windows and 
>> menus themselves are generated by the standard windows api and will 
>> come up even if some the dx components are missing. Diectx is only 
>> accessed when it has to draw the actual Coco screen or use sound. 
>> When I downloaded and installed Wine on Mint, I had to go back and 
>> get several dx parts to make it work. I think I'm still lacking some 
>> as it will fail on certain things. I run windows and was just playing 
>> around with it in Mint so I never checked everything, butit it did 
>> run and boot nitros9.
>> Just search your repository for "directx support for wine" or "wine 
>> directx"
>>
>> Bill Pierce
>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
>> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
>> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>>
> Thanks Bill, I'll give that a shot!
Bill,

I don't seem to be able to find anything in the repos to do with directx 
at all.

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