Greddy makes a great engine management piggyback, the EMU- but they are not fans of updating the software and drivers, so if your using a Windows 64bit system, your out of luck connecting to and tuning the unit- and they never did support Linux. With Windows XP and the laptops they rode in on going the way of the dinosaurs, I've been keeping a very old laptop alive just to be able to tune my EMU, but I'd like some alternatives so its no longer a single point of failure, and its just a pain to keep this big 14" laptop around for no other reason but a rare tuning need.
A work around I've seen some run is a) some people run the 32 bit version of Windows 7 or b) run a VM of XP.
I do not want to do 'a' or 'b' for the same reason, I do not want to run illegitimate ISOs or pay for a new Win7 or XP licence. So unto making an option 'c'.
I spun up a VM of Ubuntu 14.04 and loaded up WINE, a program that does a very good job of running Windows programs within Linux. I had tried this years ago, but it looked like Wine still had a ways to go.
To download a copy of the EMU software, this site has long had a repository- http://revspec.com/Ultimate.htm I can't tell you how many times I've had to use this site to download the software when in a bind.
From there, you can download the update to 2.20 from Greddy's site.
In Ubuntu, extract the EMU software into a folder of your choice, and double click on setup.exe and use the WINE option to run-- you'll soon see the familiar Windows installation process.
This wasn't error free, there is ascii that gets jumbled up, and multible error windows from WINE when loading up, but in the end, there it was, the EMU GUI running inside Ubuntu 32bit 14.04.
I'm not out of the woods yet-- I will now have to test actually connecting to an EMU- using drivers meant for a Windows machine...
Is this going to spell the end to my ancient XP machine?
A work around I've seen some run is a) some people run the 32 bit version of Windows 7 or b) run a VM of XP.
I do not want to do 'a' or 'b' for the same reason, I do not want to run illegitimate ISOs or pay for a new Win7 or XP licence. So unto making an option 'c'.
I spun up a VM of Ubuntu 14.04 and loaded up WINE, a program that does a very good job of running Windows programs within Linux. I had tried this years ago, but it looked like Wine still had a ways to go.
To download a copy of the EMU software, this site has long had a repository- http://revspec.com/Ultimate.htm I can't tell you how many times I've had to use this site to download the software when in a bind.
From there, you can download the update to 2.20 from Greddy's site.
In Ubuntu, extract the EMU software into a folder of your choice, and double click on setup.exe and use the WINE option to run-- you'll soon see the familiar Windows installation process.
This wasn't error free, there is ascii that gets jumbled up, and multible error windows from WINE when loading up, but in the end, there it was, the EMU GUI running inside Ubuntu 32bit 14.04.
I'm not out of the woods yet-- I will now have to test actually connecting to an EMU- using drivers meant for a Windows machine...
Is this going to spell the end to my ancient XP machine?
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