Have you all ever though about moving into the linux market? I run a dual boot system between Mandrake and win xp and I would absolutely love to be able to run alcohol on mandrake. I am slowly trying to ween myself from microsoft's grasps, but it is software like yours that pulls me back to it.
lots of companies are doing it now!
Alcohol 120% for Linux
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m_a_b
, Dec 18 2005 06:30 PM
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Posted 18 December 2005 - 08:45 PM
This has been mentioned before however there has been no indication that this is going to happen anytime soon. Have you tried running Alcohol under WINE?
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Posted 18 December 2005 - 11:53 PM
QUOTE (zamiel @ Dec 18 2005, 09:57 PM)
This has been mentioned before however there has been no indication that this is going to happen anytime soon. Have you tried running Alcohol under WINE?
not yet. If I try to run it that way, would I need a new license or do you all somehow detect the hardware configuration? I guess if nothing else it would run as an unlicensed version.
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Posted 19 December 2005 - 03:40 AM
I'm not sure, you'll just have to give it a shot.
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Posted 19 December 2005 - 04:38 AM
The main reason that Alcohol for Linux has not been considered to this point (and it's still relevant today) is that Linux has an image mounting system built-in (from what I'm told, I have no first-hand knowledge of this myself) and there are almost no - if any - copy protected discs for Linux, which pretty much negates the two main features of Alcohol.
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Posted 19 December 2005 - 06:25 AM
Yes, Linux can mount and make ISO images and there are plenty of FAQs around which will help one do this, however it will not mount MDF/S images.
I assume the people who want a Linux version are trying to run copy protected software under emulation, ie: WINE and therefore need some sort of copy protection emulation. I'm not even sure if that works.
If not, then I can't see a need for Alcohol in Linux myself as an easy solution to the problem would be to remake non-copyprotected images using the ISO format.
I don't have a need.... I mean Linux installed anymore
to test to see if its possible to run Alcohol / Copy protected software under WINE.
I assume the people who want a Linux version are trying to run copy protected software under emulation, ie: WINE and therefore need some sort of copy protection emulation. I'm not even sure if that works.
If not, then I can't see a need for Alcohol in Linux myself as an easy solution to the problem would be to remake non-copyprotected images using the ISO format.
I don't have a need.... I mean Linux installed anymore
to test to see if its possible to run Alcohol / Copy protected software under WINE.
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Posted 19 December 2005 - 04:58 PM
WINE itself won't even handle copy protection correctly yet, so being able to mount copy-protected discs is not useful at all, not that image mounting with Alcohol would work under Linux, WINE or no WINE. For any image mounting you might want to do in Linux, ISOs are more than capable. Mount them from the command line with "mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /path/to/mount/point", with the correct filename and mount point substituted, of course.
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