Sorry I didn’t clarify that I am using a PC and not a Mac. From what I hear, this process is much more difficult on the Mac, but I do not have one right now. If any other readers have tried this on a Mac and would like to share, that would be great.

However, when i let it reboot & restore – I still get the 1013 error – am I not getting letting the Quick PWN go long enough before quitting?

If you could provide some specifics that would be great.

-Chris-

Yeah, getting Visual Studio running with Wine is around the same level of annoyance as the Hackintosh Round 1 you did Justin.

If you’re wanting to develop, just get a machine you can develop on natively without the headaches of special configuration. Ignore this if, like me, you actually enjoy banging your head against a wall on what a sane person would skip.

Granted, I’ve not messed with Wine for 5 or so years, so it might work quite a bit easier now.

As to original design philosophy of Windows Mobile: Think they were trying to extend the standard Windows desktop/server experience to the mobile arena. Would have worked fine if the hardware manufacturers played along. Having all hardware built from the ground up with the OS is novel for a PC. I personally don’t think it has done anything other than make Macs more expensive, but when you’re limited by the level of hardware you have available building OS and hardware hand in hand winds up benefiting the developers considerably.

Of course, if hardware manufacturers worked on standardized drivers for their hardware running Windows Mobile, quite a bit of this head ache could be eliminated from the developer plate. Update the app to work with BLAH set of drivers and in theory, you’re good to go.

Rambling again. Microsoft tries the clusterbomb approach to market share. Dumb it/Cheap it down to the point where Joe Average can acquire/use your product. Way more Joe Averages out there.