wine 2.4 No Windows95 compatibility?

[ve2pkt]

Good day,
I have not used wine for a while, but just notices version 2.4 (Staging) has no windows98 or 95. I am using a very old program and the only compatibility I had was using version of windows95.

What should I do? downgrade to a prior version, if so, where can I get it?

Thanks.

[DarkPlayer]

The problem is that you created a 64 bit prefix, but the first Windows version supporting 64 bit is XP/Win 2003. In order to imitate older versions, you have to create a 32 bit only prefix:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95 WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

Now you should be able to select Windows 95.

In order to start programs in this prefix, you will always need to use the environment variable WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95.

[kirang]

The problem is that you created a 64 bit prefix, but the first Windows version supporting 64 bit is XP/Win 2003. In order to imitate older versions, you have to create a 32 bit only prefix:

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WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95 WINEARCH=win32 winecfg

Now you should be able to select Windows 95.

In order to start programs in this prefix, you will always need to use the environment variable WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95.

Hello,
How do I always use the environment variable WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95?

[Bob Wya]

Hello,
How do I always use the environment variable WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-win95?

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echo 'export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.wine-win95"' >>"${HOME}/.bashrc"

In this case you would need to run:

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unset -v WINEPREFIX

to use the default WINEPREFIX (~/.wine)

Bob