wine users - Feb 2013 - Running Alpha 5.2 in Wine

Hello.  Using Wine 1.4.1 on a Bodhi Linux system.

I have an old app -- Alpha 5.2, a very capable database program.  It
installs just fine under Wine, but when I try to run it, I get an error box
with no readable text in it, just an exclamation point and a small graphic.

The app is designed to run in Win95.  I've never had the occasion to
install it in XP or later since all my computers run Linux.  Is there some
setting in Wine, as there is in XP, to run this app in Win95 emulation
mode?  Or is there some other fix I can try?

Thanks.


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Jeffrey Needle
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On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 11:58 -0800, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
> Hello.  Using Wine 1.4.1 on a Bodhi Linux system.
> 
> I have an old app -- Alpha 5.2, a very capable database program.  It
> installs just fine under Wine, but when I try to run it, I get an error box
> with no readable text in it, just an exclamation point and a small graphic.
> 
> The app is designed to run in Win95.  I've never had the occasion to
> install it in XP or later since all my computers run Linux.  Is there some
> setting in Wine, as there is in XP, to run this app in Win95 emulation
> mode?  Or is there some other fix I can try?
> 
Use winecfg to set the specific user-level .wine installation to Win95
mode.

Running winecfg as your first wine-related action in a user should
create the wine file structure as .wine by default or with whatever name
you set with an exported WINEPREFIX shell variable, e.g. 

	export WINEPREFIX=".wine_alpha"

Martin