On 10/29/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:55, Bill Allen wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > >Hi. Got myself a load of soundfonts from hammerfall. I'm ok for unpacking > > >the .zips and .rar's on my Linux box, but I've never seen .sfArk files > > >before. Is there a tool I can install on my Linux box to unpack these? > > > Nigel. > > > > http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm > > > > Note that the native linux util is only for sfark version 2 files. You > > can use the windows version through wine. > > > > Regards, > > Bill > > Hi Bill. I sort of take back what I said about wine. SfArk works under wine on > FC2, and so does the sfpack program, although that won't start from the wine > menu, but anyway it works. So, sort of a thumbs up for wine for these two > fairly basic programs. I suppose it's moving forwards, rather than backwards. > Nigel. > I run the full version of Battery in Wine. I know Geoff Beasley runs the full version of Kontakt. Wine functions at a very high level if you find the right applications. I 'trick' is knowing to pull in real Windows dll's once in awhile. That helps a lot. It got Savihost running for me. If we had an audio developer willing to look after the Wine Jack driver then Wine would be even more useful. - Mark
