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I must run Turbo C for the university. The install seemed to go alright, but when I try to run it I get: $ wine TC.EXE Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls. NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught. err:module:MZ_DoLoadImage insufficient DOS memory winevdm: can't exec 'C:\tc\BIN\TC.EXE': error=8 What should I do? I've 512 MB RAM- I can't imagine

Hi, i need to write DOS Assembler software, ive tried TASM.EXE, but it just crashes. System is: x86_64 AMD, archlinux. wine is installed as 32bit through multilib....is it possible that this combination causes the crash? Is there a easier solution/program? greets Julius

Regarding WINE support for DOS apps: Is there some fundamental reason why WINE could not be made to support old DOS apps (like Warcraft), or is it just a matter of missing libraries and such? In other words, is there a reason why DosBox, etc. are full hardware emulators, or why full DOS library support in WINE still wouldn't be enough? Thanks, -- Joel Parker

Hi I have a relatively small executable (and also the source code) for an experimental data logging application which was written to be used with DOS in the middle ages of earth. I tried to install it using wine. Wine simply hangs after the second line - no return to prompt - see below: user@Laptop:~$ wine '/home/user/Desktop/Pocket.exe' Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode

Hi, I have a windows app that allows an old dos program that will only print to LPT, to redirect to a USB printer. I was able to use this in native windows. But Wine does not seem to be able to launch a dos box like windows could. The program is at: http://www.dos2usb.com/download.htm Unless there is some other way to redirect an LPT port? Thanks Bob

Hello everybody. I want to play Warcraft 1 on my Ubuntu 8.04 (wine-1.1.1). But first of all, i get this error: Code: winevdm: unable to exec 'Z:\Warcraft\SETUP.EXE': DOS memory range unavailable Then i have read PreloaderPageZeroProblem. Now the error has changed to: Code: Not enough memory on exec What can i do to get Warcraft 1 to work? thanks Sorry for my bad English.

I have a new EeePC from ASUS with Xandros version of linux installed. I have installed wine, and believe that the installation works for at least some windows programs. Looking in the windows\system32 directory I see notepad and progman, both of which run and look reasonable. What I really want to do is to run a command window, i.e. cmd.exe. Even though it is there, when I attempt to execute

I have several batch files from my windows installation that I've been using for many years, and I wonder what's the best way to transfer them to a Linux machine, without having to rewrite them as shell scripts. Some of these batch files call DOS programs and some call Win32 console programs. Unfortunately I have a few that has calls to both a DOS and a Win32 console program. The problem

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

I need some help from the WineHQ members. I have a DOS application that works under Window XP on a desktop computer and would like the same DOS application to run flawlessly under Wine. The application loads fine but some buttons and text are missing. So I have to guess where I type the serial number and licence code. It seems to install fine but when you double click on the desktop icon nothing

OS: SuSE 10.0 Wine: v20050725-3.2 I am trying to move this ancient DOS accounting application from a dying SCO OpenServer system where it has run happily under DOS/Merge for years. The original installation have long since disappeared. I made a tar archive of the mc8 directory and all its subdirectories. moved it to the SuSE box and untarred it under my ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/mc8

Hi! I'd like to play with snes, arcade and other retro games, but unfortunatelly there isn't any linux emus for this. So I run the emutaltor callus with wine, with medius succes: Callus works fine, everything is ok, but it uses 100% CPU, and becouse of that, the soung goes wrongs somethimes. I don't know why it is takes so mutch work to wine... Callus emulate only 66 Mhz... The

Is there a simple well to test a menu after compiling rather than actually booting with it from pxe or off the cd? I guess it would run inside dosemu? Thanks, James James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394

Hi, Can anybody points me to a *complete* doc explaining how to emule a DOS progs ? When i want to run a DOS prog, wine tells me 'winedos.dll.so Cannot find symbol MZ_Thread' or something like this" Thanks. -- Aurélien

The install is an .exe which must be run in windows, but the actual program requires DOS support. Should I install a windows version of dosbox in wine and then run dosbox in wine and have my windows dosbox run the .exe? And yes, Linux dosbox cant run it.

Does Wine have the ability to run DOS .com files? Specifically I wish to run 4dos.com which is a command.com replacement. Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux

Is it possible to run wine (wineconsole??) without X windows. I just have a simple character app that executes in a DOS window and uses printf(). I tried 0.9.30 and wineconsole doing control_alt_f1 and it BLEW I couldnt even alt_f7 to get back. I had to reboot. Should this be possible? If so how? Jerry

Hi, I use the latest Codeweavers WINE and several DOS programs wouldn't run correctly. Where can I find the best DOS emulator for Linux? Thanks!

Hello, Hope someone can help me. I have a dos program that uses ds4qb++ for sound when running in WinXP or Win98 OS. I wish to use it in Linux or OLPC XO sugar, can this be done? Regards Alan

Hello all, first of all congratulation to all the wine stuff for the great job. I was trying to run some old 16 bit executables using wine (darwine) for mac, but from what i understand darwine is still not able to execute those exe. On Linux, doing wine TASM.EXE works fine, under mac, typing the same command (but using darwine) i get fixme:module:wine_load_dos_exe DOS executables not