dbarron What do you mean using the windows install base? Wine required windows in the past or what? How did it work? I've only started using Linux in 2014, so I don't remember anything like that. I've started using wine when it was 2.x.
Per topic - wine these days is pretty good with a lot of stuff. You definitely should try it out - it's possible that it'll work with this program.
It's improved A LOT even since version 2.x, so I can't even imagine how huge the difference would be vs version 1.4.1.