> I was just curious what would it take to get the following working flawlessly in wine. (besides a miracle.) > > 1. iTunes (with USB support for updating the iPhone) > 2. Older games such as Klingon Academy, Starfleet Command 1, etc > 3. IPX support, since that's how all these older games talked to each other. > 4. Garmin WebUpdater, for updating GPS firmware > 5. Garmin Mapsource > A couple of these will require the experimental USB support. > > > I realize there is Linux equivalent software for some of this, it's just for one reason or another I end up having to revisit them. > > So I was just wonder what resources it would take... or how much money sunk into the project, or what? Just curious. > I would say the best bet would be more programmers interested in doing voluntary/free work implementing the missing parts. Along with more testers or users doing regression tests. I do not think money will help much unless the sum is in 10s of millions of dollars. Certainly a few hundred will have little effect if it is used to pay programmers to write code. John