On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Chris G <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:15PM +0000, Alistair Macgregor wrote:
> Can someone please help with some advice.

*snip*

Personally I'd go for running XP in VirtualBox, it's what I do for the
odd bits and pieces that I can't transfer to Linux, in my case these
are:-
Epson software for my scanner
An access database (I keep meaning to transfer to Dabo)
Occasional web sites that need IE to work (many French ones)

I thought the OP was saying they currently run this single app in wine, and would prefer a native equivalent, so... is there any conceivable reason it'd be advantageous to run terragen in virtualbox?

I really feel I must be missing something about your advice, because I can't see it doing anything other than wasting time, gigabytes of disk space, cpu time, money on Microsoft's balance sheet for a windows license, memory and so on for no benefit whatsoever and probably at the cost of reliable accelerated 3D support.

I would fervently support MJ Ray's sensible and well thought-out points if it were even necessary to go that far, but as far as I can see, the idea flies in the face of technical common sense, anyway.

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I hate being wrong.

Back on topic, I'm aware that there's an Epic-style linux port "in development" foir terragen, but not aware of native alternatives that are up to scratch. I'd be interested to see any suggestions people have.