I've been running NWC for more than ten years in M$ Windows but reports on the new Vista have frightened me off so I have loaded "Ubuntu" Linux. For anyone who's interested it's working very well.
Using WINE (Windows Emulator) I have installed NWC13 and it works just as well as it did running in Windows except that I can't get the sound to work.
Can anyone offer any suggestions that may help me get the sound to work?
Regards,
Brian Reynolds.
This link may help. (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=5837.msg38981#msg38981)
Another solution is to use a Virtual Machine. I just wanted to get NWC running properly, so I installed a copy of Win 2K Pro I have in a virtual machine and now everything works. Of course, I can't get on the Internet, but that does not matter since I just use the VM for NWC/
www.vmware.com
Andrew
I am running both NWC 1.75c and NWC 2.20 on Ubuntu. They work perfectly, but I had to do some research to get sound out of the programs. Unfortunately I did not document exactly what I did, but I used information provided on this page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MidiSoftwareSynthesisHowTo
--Christian
I can also report that both 1.75c and 2.21 work under Wine. To get the sound working I had to install TiMidity (software midi) and tell NWC to use TiMidity port 0. I could not get updates to work under WINE. After doing the original install under WINE I did the updates by applying them on my Windows box and copying over the NWC executables. (the .exe and the .dll files).
The retry prompt in the NWC2 update program was specifically added to enable users to work around a bug in Wine. When you get the prompt, you can manually delete the target nwc2.exe, and then the install should continue successfully. Make sure to make a backup before doing this, though.