Wine has been hopelessly unreliable, first working, then breaking with new releases and changes to my computer hardware. When I submited Wine bug reports, I get rudely abused by certain parties, and it wasn't long before I had had enough. (I am told that at this time, there is a patch for wine that again makes it possible to run TOPO!, but I have gotten so fed up with it, that I haven't verified this information.)
So what I did was to write the gtopo program, which now works quite well to view the TOPO! sets!
Along the way, I have purchased a number of sets (they are sold by the state) as part of the NGS TOPO! series. TOPO! is the name of their proprietary software that they ship with the maps. In the order in which I acquired them, I have:
It took about 15G of disk space to keep the files for the first three of these states on my hard drive, now that I have added Utah and New Mexico, it takes a bit over 22G to hold my collection. Since I have a 250G disk, with 150G free, this is absolutely no skin off of my nose.
If you have other sets (like Colorado) that you want to sell or trade, drop me a line.
Uncle Tom's Computer Info / tom@mmto.org