One slight addendum to this, doesn't look like it is able to find the
export filters.  So that does put a damper on the usability, but it's
getting closer :)

Ken Cecka wrote:
> 
> Well, not quite, but a close second.  Ever since I dumped windows off my
> hard drive and switched over to linux, I've been free of windows
> software.  But I've regligously installed every version of Wine that's
> come along just to see if I could get sPatch up and running.  Several
> versions back I got my hopes up when it didn't crash immediately, but
> actually opened a window.  But none of the rendering (wire-frame or
> shaded) worked.
> 
> I just installed the latest version of wine today, and was pleasantly
> surprised to find not only wireframe fimally working, but the shaded
> rendering as well.  I didn't have any luck with the openGL support, but
> sPatch's internal renderer worked great.
> 
> I'm running wine version 20000716.  I didn't use any special options or
> anything, just ran "wine spatch.exe", and after grumbling around with a
> bunch of warnings about fonts, up came sPatch :)
> 
> Don't know if anyone else is as excited as I am, but just thought I'd
> let y'all know.
> 
> Ken
> 
> P.S.  I looked around on the web, and was unable to find a working
> sPatch home page.  I still have the zip file saved, but would be
> interested to know if anyone has a current URL.

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