wine users - Mar 2008 - Dos very old app

Hi everybody

i'm running a very old app in dos

i do

Code:

 WINEDEBUG=+relay wine WP.EXE 2>&1 | less -i





that's what i get in reponse 
002e:Call USER.1: MESSAGEBOX(0000,13870c5a "This application must be run in
either 16 or 256 color mode.\n",13870c98 "Error!",0010)
ret=11f7:0155 ds=1387

[/code]

what can i do?

thx

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Lorenzo <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
>  i'm running a very old app in dos
>
>  i do
>
>  Code:
>
>   WINEDEBUG=+relay wine WP.EXE 2>&1 | less -i
>
>
>
>
>
>  that's what i get in reponse
>  002e:Call USER.1: MESSAGEBOX(0000,13870c5a "This application must be
run in either 16 or 256 color mode.\n",13870c98 "Error!",0010)
ret=11f7:0155 ds=1387
>
>  [/code]
>
>  what can i do?
>
>  thx
>
Totally a guess on my part but if the program *must* have 16 or 256
color then I'd try setting up some 256 color modes in my xorg.conf
file. If you can get that working, and you MUST test that they are
actually working in X itself first, then I'd try rerunning the program
in Wine and see if Wine will switch to that mode while the program
runs.

Note that if the program wants a 256 color mode it probably also wants
a very low screen resolution, like 640x480. I'd start there if I was
going to play with xorg.conf.

*Maybe* some advanced Wine user will know how to do all of this in
Wine's native configuration but until I heard about that I'd go down
this path first.

Good luck,
Mark

u think is it possible to run it without modifing xorg and start x-window over
or not?
thanks i'll wait for further post

> Hi everybody
>
> i'm running a very old app in dos
>
> i do
>
> Code:
>
>  WINEDEBUG=+relay wine WP.EXE 2>&1 | less -i
>
>
>
>
>
> that's what i get in reponse
> 002e:Call USER.1: MESSAGEBOX(0000,13870c5a "This application must be
run in
> either 16 or 256 color mode.\n",13870c98 "Error!",0010)
ret=11f7:0155
> ds=1387
>
> [/code]
>
> what can i do?
>
> thx
You might want to consider using DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/).  


ALexander N. S?rnes

cool stuff.
u suggest to run dosbox in wine?

I messed up

i though it was a dos apps but it is a windows app

i dont think i'm gonna change my xorg everytime i want to run it, i'll
try to modify the virtual desktop or wine configuration.

if anyone can help..

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Again, I have VERY little experience in this area under wine but in
> Windows this is essentially what you'd be doing.
Mark, this is not windows. All what you think you know about windows does not
apply to Xorg and Wine. Please don't send users on a wild goos chaise if you
don't know what you talking about.

Lorenzo, ignore everything Mark told you. Xorg can not switch colors on-the-fly.
At a minimum you'll have to start a separate X session:

Code:
xinit /usr/bin/wine WP.EXE -- :1 -depth 8


However that might not work with your video drivers/system setup. If that
won't work, you can try and force Wine to lie to the app about BPP. However
that will break all the programs run on Wine and you will have to manually edit
Wine's user.reg file.
Here is the registry key:

Code:
[HKCU\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
ScreenDepth=8

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Additionally, I don't completely trust your analysis here as the other
> day we had a problem with a user not seeing videos which I duplicated
> both the problem and the solution here. The solution was in fact that
> my xorg.conf file didn't have to correct settings so Wine didn't
> switch into the right modes at the right scan rates. Once I made those
> changes it worked fine. It was a two minute change
It could be the problem here as well. Hard to tell what that program is looking
at.

Lorenzo, did you modified your xorg.conf as requested? What all the modes and
color depths do you have listed there?

> Hi everybody
>
> i'm running a very old app in dos
>
> i do
>
> Code:
>
>  WINEDEBUG=+relay wine WP.EXE 2>&1 | less -i
>
> that's what i get in reponse
> 002e:Call USER.1: MESSAGEBOX(0000,13870c5a "This application must be
run
> in either 16 or 256 color mode.\n",13870c98 "Error!",0010)
ret=11f7:0155
> ds=1387
>
> [/code]
>
> what can i do?
Which version of Word Perfect are you using?


-- 
Tomas

thanks vitamin, i'll try it. 

it's not Word Perfect!

Lorenzo wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> i'm running a very old app in dos
>
> i do
>
> Code:
>
>  WINEDEBUG=+relay wine WP.EXE 2>&1 | less -i
>
>
>
>
>
> that's what i get in reponse 
> 002e:Call USER.1: MESSAGEBOX(0000,13870c5a "This application must be
run in either 16 or 256 color mode.\n",13870c98 "Error!",0010)
ret=11f7:0155 ds=1387
>
> [/code]
>
> what can i do?
>
> thx
>
>
>
>   
This appears to be a very old version of WordPerfect.  I would be very 
suspicious of running this program in Wine.  Is there a way that you can 
update the program to a more recent version?

James McKenzie

Again.. it's NOT a Word Perfect version

I have already tested it in dosbox, and i find out it is a windows application.
It's Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Version. I made it running by the xinit
command vitamin wrote up here but it runs too fast to play properly.
thanks to everybody for helping

i think is the 93 version u mentioned.

dosbox said it's a windows application, and the zip file i downloaded
contains the executable named WP.EXE

weird [Laughing]

it works very well in win xp, but i need cpukiller to slow it down.