wine users - Mar 2012 - Will it be possible for Wine to run gaming emulators?

I tried to run TGB Dual emulator and MSX emulator on Wine. Both seemed to 
run nicely on the first glimpse, but crashed when I tried to load the game
files.
I did not quite expect this since I felt that those emulators were quite simple
in their programming details.

Will it be possible in a near future for Wine to run these kinds of gaming 
emulators of old gaming consoles? Or is it already possible while I have not 
done what is necessary?

I wish our brilliant programmers could fix this problem for the sake of the
fans of nostalgic games like myself. Having just recently bought Macbook 
Pro, I'm quite frustrated that I may have to quit playing my favorite games.
So please someone take care of this problem when the next version of Wine
comes up.

p.s: I will be more than happy to hear about any revisions in Wine
configurations that will help me run the emulators without waiting for the
next version of Wine, if there is any. Thank you.

There should be native MSX and GBC/GBA emulators for your mac, but they probably
won't be the same as the ones you used on windows. I know there are plenty
on linux.

Below is the message I got when my TGB Dual crashed.

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code
(0x407a068d).
Register dump:
 CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1007 GS:000f
 EIP:407a068d ESP:0032d0e0 EBP:0032da78 EFLAGS:00010246(  R- --  I  Z- -P- )
 EAX:00000000 EBX:4079f1f1 ECX:0032ee00 EDX:00000000
 ESI:0032ee00 EDI:00000000
Stack dump:
0x0032d0e0:  00000000 000000f0 00000000 00000000
0x0032d0f0:  00000000 00000001 0014e2d8 00110014
0x0032d100:  000003f0 00000068 00040000 00000000
0x0032d110:  7bc3ced9 407cd75c 0032d198 7bc3d0ce
0x0032d120:  0014e2d8 407c3392 0032d6b0 7bc64ac9
0x0032d130:  00000008 00030020 0032ea9c 00000000
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x407a068d in comdlg32 (+0x1068d) (0x0032da78)
  1 0x407a0e90 in comdlg32 (+0x10e8f) (0x0032daf8)
  2 0x407a182e in comdlg32 (+0x1182d) (0x0032def8)
  3 0x4384d22a in <wine-loader> (+0x4384d229) (0x0032df38)
  4 0x4384da61 in <wine-loader> (+0x4384da60) (0x0032df98)
  5 0x4384e865 in <wine-loader> (+0x4384e864) (0x0032e468)
  6 0x4384f195 in <wine-loader> (+0x4384f194) (0x0032e4b8)
  7 0x437d8168 in user32 (+0x28167) (0x0032e508)
  8 0x4384d22a in <wine-loader> (+0x4384d229) (0x0032e548)
  9 0x4384dbde in <wine-loader> (+0x4384dbdd) (0x0032e588)
  10 0x438505be in <wine-loader> (+0x438505bd) (0x0032e5d8)
  11 0x438122ef in <wine-loader> (+0x438122ee) (0x0032e698)
  12 0x437dd1bf in user32 (+0x2d1be) (0x0032e828)
  13 0x437e018f in <wine-loader> (+0x437e018e) (0x0032e8a8)
  14 0x437e02b4 in <wine-loader> (+0x437e02b3) (0x0032e8d8)
  15 0x437e037a in <wine-loader> (+0x437e0379) (0x0032e928)
  16 0x40799fcb in comdlg32 (+0x9fca) (0x0032ea38)
  17 0x4079e8d7 in comdlg32 (+0xe8d6) (0x0032eb38)
  18 0x4079ea02 in comdlg32 (+0xea01) (0x0032eb78)
0x407a068d: cmpb	$0x0,0x0(%eax)
Modules:
Module	Address			Debug info	Name (35 modules)
ELF	       0-82001000	Stabs           <wine-loader>
PE	  400000-  470000	Deferred        tgb_dual
PE	401b0000-401b4000	Deferred        version
PE	401c0000-401c4000	Deferred        winspool
PE	40590000-40594000	Deferred        advapi32
PE	40790000-407a2000	Deferred        comdlg32
PE	41990000-41994000	Deferred        dinput
PE	419d0000-419d4000	Deferred        msacm32
PE	41d10000-41e1e000	Deferred        shell32
PE	41f00000-41f04000	Deferred        shlwapi
PE	41f90000-41f94000	Deferred        dsound
PE	41fe0000-41fe4000	Deferred        wsock32
PE	437b0000-437de000	Deferred        user32
PE	43900000-43904000	Deferred        gdi32
PE	439d0000-439f0000	Deferred        comctl32
PE	43ad0000-43ad4000	Deferred        ddraw
PE	43b60000-43b64000	Deferred        wined3d
PE	43cb0000-43cbb000	Deferred        winmm
PE	43d00000-43d08000	Deferred        ole32
PE	43e50000-43e54000	Deferred        rpcrt4
PE	43ee0000-43ee4000	Deferred        ws2_32
PE	43f10000-43f14000	Deferred        iphlpapi
PE	44810000-44814000	Deferred        winex11
PE	44a00000-44a04000	Deferred        imm32
PE	44a40000-44a44000	Deferred        uxtheme
PE	451e0000-451e4000	Deferred        localspl
PE	45200000-45203000	Deferred        spoolss
PE	452d0000-452d4000	Deferred        riched32
PE	452f0000-452f4000	Deferred        riched20
PE	45350000-453cc000	Deferred        oleaut32
PE	46220000-46224000	Deferred        mmdevapi
PE	46250000-46253000	Deferred        winecoreaudio
PE	47dc0000-47dc3000	Deferred        usp10
PE	7b810000-7b985000	Deferred        kernel32
PE	7bc10000-7bc14000	Deferred        ntdll
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\MP3Gain\TGB_Dual.exe
	00000028    0
	00000027    0
	00000026    0
	00000025   15
	00000024    0
	00000009    0 <=0000000e services.exe
	00000020    0
	0000001f    0
	00000015    0
	00000010    0
	0000000f    0
00000012 winedevice.exe
	0000001d    0
	0000001a    0
	00000014    0
	00000013    0
0000001b plugplay.exe
	00000021    0
	0000001e    0
	0000001c    0
00000022 explorer.exe
	00000023    0
System information:
    Wine build: wine-1.4
    Platform: i386
    Host system: Darwin
    Host version: 11.3.0

Eek!  :D 

So much wishes and expectations around Wine...

As about me, I would be happy if only D3D games could be run with same
performance (or at least 90-95%) and stability as in Windows.

At this fact I think at least 50% of people using Windows may confess Linux,
finally. ))

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:44, Pandorabox <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Below is the message I got when my TGB Dual crashed.
>
> Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code
(0x407a068d).
You might want to report a bug (with a debug symbols-enabled wine) if
you can reproduce the issue.

I checked the information for TGB Dual in AppDB and Bugzilla, and discovered
that someone already mentioned exactly the same problems. Yet these
problems regarding TGB Dual has not been fixed even if the latest report
of the problems with TGB Dual was made in April 2011, which is now almost 
one full year ago. So I wish the next version of wine will eventually fix this
problem as much as the report for the problem is relatively old.

Pandorabox wrote:
> I checked the information for TGB Dual in AppDB and Bugzilla, and
discovered
> that someone already mentioned exactly the same problems. Yet these
> problems regarding TGB Dual has not been fixed even if the latest report
> of the problems with TGB Dual was made in April 2011, which is now almost 
> one full year ago. 
I gather you mean http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17229. You should leave
a comment there that the problem is still present in 1.4.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:30, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>
> Pandorabox wrote:
>> I checked the information for TGB Dual in AppDB and Bugzilla, and
discovered
>> that someone already mentioned exactly the same problems. Yet these
>> problems regarding TGB Dual has not been fixed even if the latest
report
>> of the problems with TGB Dual was made in April 2011, which is now
almost
>> one full year ago.
>
> I gather you mean http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17229. You should
leave a comment there that the problem is still present in 1.4.
BTW, this bug mentions a patch so you might want to try that, Pandorabox

Would you like to elaborate on that a bit further, please?
I am new to Wine, so I am not getting what you exactly mean
by "trying the patch."

Fr??d??ric Delanoy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 00:01, Pandorabox <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > Would you like to elaborate on that a bit further, please?
> > I am new to Wine, so I am not getting what you exactly mean
> > by "trying the patch."
> > 
> 
> That's not specific to wine.
> By that I meant downloading the source code, applying the patch
> (integrate the change it brings into the source code), compiling and
> trying if that changes anything.
> 
> BTW I tried the patch and it didn't help.

OK.. then.. should I just wait for the next version of Wine?