On Feb 17, 2008 4:02 AM, L. Rahyen research@science.su wrote:
What about support for Autodesk products (such as AutoCAD and 3ds max)? Asfar as I know there is two group of problems preventing them from working: copy-protection related and .NET related. ... However for not-so-new versions there is no .NET issues (just copy-protection problems).... This is true for AutoCAD too (as far as I know AutoCAD and 3ds max are using same protection called C-Dilla).
Yeah, getting .net working would be great, and we seem to be making some progress there. And getting the copy protection used by these apps would be great. Googling around, I see that C-Dilla has sometimes been called Safecast, which is related to Safedisc, so I took the liberty of updating http://wiki.winehq.org/SafeDisc with a link to the Autocad 2000 bug, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8466. That one looks like it's waiting for some action - James pointed out a simple-looking problem, but nobody's tackled it yet.
I'm torn between tackling hard problems and just going for the low-hanging fruit. I think the upshot is: I'm going to push hard on the low-hanging fruit, and let the hard problems sort themselves out in their own time, since pushing on them usually tends to involve a lot of wheel spinning. - Dan