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3. Getting started

3.1 Platform specific details

While the advice given here isn't specific to Linux, that's the only OS with which it has been tested. If you use something else that can run Wine, then the same advice should apply.

If you've used Ameol with Wine for some other OS, please let me know and I'll update this document. See the feedback section.

3.2 A few words about risk

Please note that the Wine version may be significant. Try to use a relatively recent version of Wine, but be aware that not all versions of Wine may run Ameol equally well, if at all. I've sometimes upgraded from a version of Wine that could run Ameol to a more recent version which failed to run Ameol.

For example, at the time of writing I'm using codeweavers-wine-20010626-4.rpm. Ameol installed and initially ran smoothly, but the next time I booted my machine I found that tabbed dialogs didn't work. I've not had that problem before, and the upgrading to next version of Wine might fix it. However, I might then find another problem, and it might not be so small.

This is a general risk with reverse engineering anything as complex as the MS Windows API. Ameol is also complex software, so the two may interact in unexpected ways.

You should consider this before installing and running a sensitive application like Ameol on a platform which isn't directly supported. At best, Ameol misbehaving could be inconvenient. At worst, it could scramble your Ameol data, cause havoc online, embarrass you before all your peers, or perhaps even violate the CIX Terms and Conditions and result in the termination of your CIX account.

As someone once put it, "To err is human, but it takes a computer to really cock things up."

3.3 Where to get it all

Here are the links to stuff that you'll need.

The following sections will explain in more details.


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