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05-25-2010 , 07:34 PM
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This may be a stupid question but.........


There is a programme called "Avantix Traveller".

It is available for purchase here:

http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.a...=9780117068537

and you can download a "reduced price" version here:

http://www.faresmanual.co.uk/NFM/NFM05.zip

What it is, as far as I understand, is a database of all the rail fares in the UK along with a simple .exe programme which is an interface to that information.

I've never been able to use it because I'm a Mac user and it's written for Windows.

I have seen on another forum someone saying that they have run it without problem on a Linux system under "Wine". I don't know much about Wine but I gather it is some kind of quasi-Windows emulator and I vaguely remember seeing a thread on here where someone had got it running on the N900.

I imagine that the "Avantix Traveller" programme is pretty simple and therefore not too resource-hungry, so would possibly be usable even if running on quite a slow set-up.

If there is some way of getting this to work on the N900 that would be great because:

1) I can use it!
2) Not only could I use it but use it on the go which would be very useful.



More info about it here -

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29902
 
damion is offline damion
05-29-2010 , 04:58 AM
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I can't download that zip link it's returning a 403 forbidden. Are you technically confident enough to be able to set up an x86 chroot and install qemu following my howto I posted on this forum?
 
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05-29-2010 , 05:00 AM
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If it runs in wine on Linux, then it would probably run using Crossover (the commercial, non-free Wine spin-off) on your Mac.
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05-30-2010 , 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by damion View Post
I can't download that zip link it's returning a 403 forbidden.
Hmm...for some reason using that direct link isn't working. Try going to http://www.faresmanual.co.uk, then click "downloads" then click on the link for NFM05 in the blue box on the right.


Are you technically confident enough to be able to set up an x86 chroot and install qemu following my howto I posted on this forum?
This one?

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=42

It looks a little daunting. I could give it a go and see how far I get.
 
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05-30-2010 , 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by fnordianslip View Post
If it runs in wine on Linux, then it would probably run using Crossover (the commercial, non-free Wine spin-off) on your Mac.
Unfortunately I can't run crossover because it needs an Intel mac and mine is PPC.
 
damion is offline damion
06-09-2010 , 06:33 AM
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Well, except you could also use qemu like this arm wine thingy
 
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06-09-2010 , 07:58 PM
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Is that something I could do even though I don't have a PhD in computerology?
 
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