The WINE List

Introduction

Wine (which, its authors say, stands for 'Wine is not an emulator') is a Windows-compatible application launching environment for Linux and several other non-Microsoft other operating systems in which users can run many programs designed for Windows. Since not every Windows program runs correctly under Wine, and many of the programs I tested successfully were not listed on the other Wine compatibility lists I found, I've put together this list of programs that work (or at least seem to work -- I didn't test every function of every program!) more or less as they do under Windows.

For these tests, I used the Wine version built into Knoppix versions 3.1 and 3.2. Knoppix is a free Debian-based Linux distribution that requires no installation on or changes to your hard drive. It boots and runs its filesystem directly from a CD. Additionally, it write-protects your Windows hard drive(s) by default, making it an exceptionally safe way to test Wine and/or Linux.

Zero Config Wine

All programs tested were previously installed and no special setup, configuration or manual file copying under Wine was used. In other words, any program listed below works "as is." Programs listed do not necessarily represent the most recent version available or compatible at the time of testing. If a program is listed here there's a good chance that older or newer versions may also run. It's also worth mentioning that some of these programs have free equivalents in the Open Source world -- this is a topic beyond the scope of this report. In a few cases, I had to reboot the system (or, more commonly, kill all running Wine-related tasks with the command killall -9 wine.bin) before a program would run as it should.

The "?" category rates items, where green represents full functionality, yellow means the program launched, but at least one feature was noted to not work as expected, and red means the program launched, but severe display or functionality anomalies were noted. Programs that didn't work at all in a "zero config" environment are not listed. Your results may vary. Caveat emptor.

Working:

Company Name Program Name Category Version Comments

Key

Broderbund 3D Home Architect Graphics 1.0    Works great 4D Vision 4DPaint  Graphics 1.0 Paints on 3-D models Works great   AbiWord Productivity   Word Processor works great Works great Sonic Foundry Acid Audio 3.0 Launches successfully, but then freezes (?)  No go Lavasoft Ad-aware Utility 5.8 Anti-spyware Works great Lavasoft Ad-aware Utility 6.0 Anti-spyware  Works great Macromedia  Aftershock Animation      Works great   AmazingMIDI Audio   works perfectly  Works great Play  Amorphium Graphics 1.0 Needs serial number.  Works great Telos Systems  AudioActive Prod. Studio Audio 1.5.4 Needs serial number. (Try canceling reg. dialog.)  Works great AudioGalaxy  AudioGalaxy Satellite Internet   Didn't test transfers, but agent runs in KDE taskbar  Some problems Newtek Aura Graphics 1.0 Runs great - everything works really fast  Works great   AVI Splittter Video 1.0 works perfectly  Works great IgD BIN Chunker File utility 1.56   Works great Corel Bryce Graphics 5 Freezes when objects are added to scene No go   BulletProof FTP Internet     Works great Corel Capture Graphics 10 Taskbar icon works, but doesn't seem to capture images. Some problems Steinberg  Clean Audio 1.0 Audio device must be available  Works great Steinberg  Cubasis AV Audio 1.0 Right-click to close hidden dialog box on opening screen  Some problems Twelve Tone Systems Cakewalk In Concert  MIDI   MIDI not tested  Some problems Golden Hawk CDRWin  CD-R utility 3.8   Works great CrystalGraphics Crystal Flying Fonts LE Animation 3.01 Runs great. Uses installed Windows fonts.  Works great Ivanopulo DAMN NFO Viewer Text reader 2.0    Works great   Dawn Utility 5.0 Address Book Converter Works great MediaTech Drum Wizard, The MIDI   MIDI not tested (requires audio)  Works great Crunchymedia.com DVD Collector DVD utility   Icons are a bit funny but it installs and runs quite nicely.  Works great   DVD Decrypter DVD copier   works great Works great   DVDX  DVD utility 1.8a May crash on exit  Works great Aladdin  Expander Archive util. 2.0   Works great   Fast Movie Processor Video 1.44   Works great FileMaker Inc. FileMaker Pro  Database 3.0 Runs great Works great FileMaker Inc. FileMaker Pro  Database 5.0 Runs great Works great Coda Finale Notation 2002 Needs font, MIDI cfg installed Some problems Macromedia  Flash  Animation 3 Works great Works great Macromedia  Flash  Animation 4 Works great, needs serial number Some problems Macromedia  Flash  Animation 5 Works great Some problems Macromedia  Flash MX Animation 6 Needs serial number Some problems Macromedia  Fontographer Graphics 4 'Not enough memory' error No go Image-Line Software FruityLoops Audio 2 Sound works perfectly  Works great Alchemy Mindworks GIF Construction Set Graphics      Works great Alchemy Mindworks GIF Construction Set Pro Graphics      Works great John Marshall Gnucleus  Internet   Didn't test P2P connection  Some problems Acadia  Infuse Internet 1.01 Web builder with JavaScript, Livewire tools Works great Microsoft Internet Explorer Internet 6.0 (Installed under Windows Me). Icons are black  Works great Paragraph Internet3D Space Builder Internet 2.1 Minimize to exit splash screen  Works great Inetcam Inc.  iVISTA Internet 3.0 Web cam server  Works great Metacreations  Kai's Power Goo Graphics   Launches, but doesn't do much after that No go Sseyo Koan Pro Audio     Works great Newtek Lightwave 3D Graphics 5.6 Modeler runs; it renders too!  Works great Dataviz  MacOpener File utility 2.0 File Navigator for Mac HFS disks Works great MetaCard  MetaCard Development 2.3  Icons in demo look a bit funky  Some problems Cyberlink  Mediashow Graphics   seems to hang; not extensively tested  Some problems   Monopoly Deluxe  Game 1.0   Works great Ulead  MorphStudio  Graphics 1.0   Works great Fraunhofer  MPEG Layer-3 Producer Audio   Requires FhG MP3 audio codec  Some problems Vitec MPEG Maker  Video 1.2   Works great RCA mp3PRO Audio Player  Audio 1.0   Works great Best!Ware M.Y.O.B. Accounting 7.0 Works great  Works great Ahead  Nero CD-R Utility 5.540 Writes to Virtual Drive only until configured.  Some problems Ahead  Nero CD-R Utility 5.578 seems to work perfectly Works great   NfoDiz  Text reader 5.0   Works great   Pacifist  Emulator 1.25 Atari ST emulator  Some problems Adobe PageMaker Graphics 6.5 Seems to work fine  Works great Fractal Design  Painter Graphics 5  Needs disk space No go   Palm OS Emulator  Emulator   Set path to ROM  Some problems Corel Photo-Paint Graphics 10 Icons messed up, but it seems to work fine Works great Adaptec  PhotoRelay Graphics      Works great Microsoft  Pinball Game   Perfectly smooth animation -- makes a great Wine demo! Works great Project Mayo Playa, The Video     Some problems   PopUpStopper Utility   says it is missing a DLL, but seems to load. Some problems Metacreations Poser Graphics 3.0 Basic features work. Libraries don't load (?) Some problems Adobe  Premiere Video 5.1 Click Cancel in first dialog. Display problems in Titler. Some problems Native Instruments  Pro-52 Audio 2.10 Manually locate required files ("mystery" and "P5a.def") Works great   Putty Internet   works perfectly Works great Intuit Quicken Financial Center Productivity   Seems fine  Works great element 5 AG  Rainbow Audio 2.0 Synth module. Select WINE directsound device  Works great Corel R.A.V.E. Animation 10 Icons messed up, but it seems to work fine  Works great Native Instruments  Reaktor Audio 2.5 Audio not supported on test system (Audigy)  Some problems Propellerheads  Rebirth  Audio 2.0 Needs original CD  Some problems Steinberg  Recycle Audio 1.60    Works great Next Limit S.L.  RealFlow 3D graphics 1.1 Fluid Dynamics  Works great   Renum File utility 1.30 File Renumber Utility Works great   Resource Hacker File utility   Useful "ResHack" for changing graphics, icons, etc. Works great Killer Software RZSplit97 File utility 2.62 Splits big files. Shareware from www.killersoftware.com Works great Scriptware Scriptware for Windows Productivity 1.0 Launches successfully, but then freezes (?) No go Sibelius Software Ltd Sibelius  Music scoring 1.4 Professional music notation software Works great JHSoft Simple DNS Plus Internet 2.02 Needs to write INI file. Disable other DNS service.  Works great   Skifree Game   Old Windows game works perfectly Works great Emulators Inc. SoftMac 2000 Emulator 7.0 Manually locate ROM file.  Some problems Sonic Foundry Sound Forge Audio 4.5c Needs to write to disk Works great Sonic Foundry Sound Forge Audio 5.0 Launches successfully, but then freezes (?) No go Pixelan  SpiceRack Video 1.2 Set path to Spice filters Some problems   TMPGEnc Video 1.2    Works great   TightVNC Internet   Probably better to use a Linux-native version...  Works great TS-audioToMidi Realtime converter Audio 5.0 seems to work Works great dracore VCDGear Video 2.0 Extract MPEG streams. Details at www.vcdgear.com Works great ArcSoft  VideoImpression Video      Works great Sonic Foundry Vegas Video Video 2.0a JPEG/video previews don't seem to work  Some problems Sonic Foundry Vegas Video Video 3.0c Hangs after all windows appear No go AT&T Labs VNC Internet   Server & Client  Some problems Ipswitch WS_FTP95  Internet 4.05    Works great Nullsoft WinAmp Audio 2.09   Works great Nullsoft WinAmp Audio 2.64    Works great   WinAUE Emulator 4.0 Amiga emulator; minor screen redraw problems  Works great MSTELZ WinBIN File utility 1.1    Works great Issaris WinCAB File utility   Severe screen redraw problems  No go Christoph Schmelnik WinDAC32 Audio 1.40 Digital audio copy; recognizes SCSI and IDE drives Works great Microsoft Windows Media Player Video/audio 6.4 Plays AVIs very nicely Works great   WinISO File utility 4.0 Minor screen redraw problem  Works great   WinSTon  Emulator   Atari ST emulator; set path to ROM Some problems   WinRAR File utility 2.71 Works great  Works great   WinRAR File utility 3.0 Works great  Works great   WinZip  File utility 7.0 Installs icon on KDE desktop and in menu.  Works great   WinZip  File utility 8.1 Installs icon on KDE desktop and in menu.  Works great   Zoom Player  Video 2.5 Couldn't play MPEG video  No go   Zoom Player  Video 3.0 Starts up, but has problems loading files No go

Do you know of a "zero config" Wine compatible program not on this list? Email me.

Thanks to Martyn S. Braithwaite, Les Ritchin, et al for contributions to this list.

For Further Reading

• Search for more information on Google....
• FranksWorld.net: Running Windows applications and games on Linux ...
• CodeWeavers.com: Wine Application Database