On 04 Nov 09:47, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:15PM +0000, Alistair Macgregor wrote:
Can someone please help with some advice.
At the moment I run a dual boot system, with Windows XP and Ubuntu sharing my hard drive. I would like to go the whole hog and rid myself of windows. I know I can do 90% of what I use my computer for under Linux, office, graphics and music.
The only thing I'm having trouble with is an equivalent for Planetside Terragen landscape generator. Is there anything compatible or am I stuck running it in WINE.
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
Huh?! Does it not work with SANE? What make/model Epson scanner?
An access database (I keep meaning to transfer to Dabo)
Hmm, there was a thingummy that'd play with those... mdbtools, IIRC, but that won't give you the shiny forms etc... doesn't look like it's been worked on for a few years though :( I believe there was an ODBC layer that'd talk at 'em too - oh, no, that appears to have been part of mdbtools too...
Occasional web sites that need IE to work (many French ones)
ies4linux. (http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page)
Depending on the size of the access database (I'm assuming that it's not huge, otherwise you'd have moved it to a sane format a long time ago) it might not take very long to migrate it to something like pgaccess or oobase, it appears that pgaccess has kinda died a bit, which I don't suppose is that suprising now that OpenOffice.org Base actually seems to work.
Ho hum,