Getting winprinter+MIDI+ppp to work under wine
Is it actually possible? On a 99+ % M$-free box
I'm talking about the sort of printer drivers that you install using
the standard floppies that come with the printer, the one that
delightfully instructs you to (1) Insert disk into Drive A: (2) From
start, choose settings, blah. It seems that wine doesn't have its own
control panel that would let you install winprinter drivers (which
aren't executable, so you can't do wine <filename.exe> on it). GS
obviously won't work.
As for MIDI, I'm look for the sort of software support that allows me
to transparently play multimedia titles like Encarta 97 (which I have
successfully installed) and who knows, an old-fashioned first-person
shooter. Timidity of course won't do.
As for the ppp, I'm looking to install a freemail (no dialup cost)
service which expectedly comes only in a M$ variety. Obviously I need
to get ppp working (after I hoepfully figure out some way of
installing the software). Or maybe, just how to connect the normal
DUN way, and get to browse using Explorer.
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