Hello, Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS program (database gui for Clipper5 called dbu.exe). The layout of Wine is well thought out. Anyway, the problem is the following that I just have a blank window. I ran the code (found that in the forum, thankyou) for old 16bit programs first: sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0 This is the terminal readout: paul at paul-asus-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:\Program Files\dbu.exe' fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500 paul at paul-asus-laptop:~$ fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Set Background/Border Color: 0/1 Any help greatly appreciated! Kind regards
pj wrote:> Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS programWine has lots of problems with DOS emulation. You should try DOSBOX or DOSEmu instead.
Thanks for the prompt reply - I will try them out.
> Although these are more likely to get the user a functioning program > quickly - are bugs in Wine's DOS emulation considered valid reportable > bugs?I suppose the bugs could be so regarded, although I do understand the the Wine project is more directed towards present and future Microsoft products. I did install dosemu in between these posts, and it works perfectly well with the dbu.exe program, and so if DOS emulation is not absolutely necessary, then the Wine crew would just be perhaps re-inventing the wheel. Perhaps you are being too hard a task master?![Wink] kind regards