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Hi! I just hear you talking about programs like UT or winword, requiring either a 3D rendering engine or a million DLLs. But has anyone of you ever successfully started a plain DOS Program like MS edit.com or duke3d? Whenever i try anything like that wine runs into an infinite loop and does nothing but produce cpu load and > fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np messages... With some programs i do at least get the message that any real mode DOS-interrupt is not implemented or called with wrong flags. Oh yes...

...#39;s an > alias to "DPMI") ? I want to play my old classic DOS games, but in > Windoze they crash (don't know why - I hate this O$), and Wine doesn't > support this interrupt. Try dosemu (www.dosemu.org). Runs almost all non-DPMI programs and quite a few DPMI ones (like Duke3D and Doom FWIW). Exceptions are for instance some of the Ultima's, VCPI programs and other games that refuse to work under Win9x. You have to try it though. Don't expect sound working. DOSEMU uses quite a different approach from wine: with wine you usually run one app at a time whereas dos...