International Futures modeling system - error 3633

[futures]

International Futures (IFs) is a large-scale, long-term, integrated global modeling system, downloadable at http://www.ifs.du.edu. It was written in Visual Basic 6.0 and meant run in Windows-Systems including Vista.

Installation under wine goes through without errors, but starting gives the error message: "Runtime Error '3633'" and that's it. I searched arround for that error, but didn't find any suggestion which could help me to resolve the issue.

I use wine-1.1.42 under debian squeeze.

The messages on the terminal window in this case probably are not helpful:

fixme:ole:OaBuildVersion Version value not known yet. Please investigate it !
fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0x1063bf4,774,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32f988), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x19aec18)->(0x19b2398, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_FindConnectionPoint no connection point for {33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393}

Any help/suggestions how to get IFs to run?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[dimesio]

Your Wine version is over 3 years old and has not been supported in a long time. Upgrade.

[futures]

Your Wine version is over 3 years old and has not been supported in a long time. Upgrade.

I did. Now I have 1.4. But it didn't help. Same error message (Runtime error '3633'), one "fixme" less in the terminal windows:

fixme:ole:OleLoadPictureEx (0x1063bf4,774,0,{7bf80980-bf32-101a-8bbb-00aa00300cab},x=0,y=0,f=0,0x32f980), partially implemented.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_SaveAsFile (0x19b38d0)->(0x19b78f0, 0, (nil)), hacked stub.
fixme:ole:OLEPictureImpl_FindConnectionPoint no connection point for {33ad4ed2-6699-11cf-b70c-00aa0060d393}

Any suggestion how to get any further?

[futures]

Ok, I solved this problem.

Error 3633 pointed to problems with DAO and there were indeed some dlls related to DAO missing. They were provided by MS Jet 4.0, which I installed with winetricks.

Now I can access the results which come with the distribution, but unfortunatelly I cannot run any scenario myself. After some time I get the error message:

"There has been an error in subroutine IFsKnowledge1, year 2010. You may want to reload a scenario or the base case. The error message is: Type mismatch"

This error is wine-related, as it does not occur under windows.

Any suggestions?