Lisa8 FEM - Set Up Error - Microsoft.Visual Basic

[Ironfighter]

I am a Linux novice and absolutely brand new to Wine and this is my first post on this forum so I hope I have observed all the protocols.
I have downloaded the Free Limited version of this programme which I had previously run on Windows 7,8 &10.
https://lisafea.com/
Using Wine 5.2 (staging) and winetricks I had partial success but when I ran the programme I ran into an error which causes it to crash.
There are 2 post from this forum from many years ago but they don't seem to be related to my error message.
I have added some screen shots and the error report and my system information
<<$ inxi -b
System: Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2
Distro: MX-19.1_x64 patito feo February 15 2020
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20C6A010AU v: ThinkPad Edge E540
serial: <root required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20C6A010AU v: 0B98405 STD serial: <root required> UEFI: LENOVO
v: J9ETA2WW (2.28 ) date: 06/20/2018
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.9 Wh condition: 44.9/56.2 Wh (80%)
CPU: Dual Core: Intel Core i3-4000M type: MT MCP speed: 1959 MHz min/max: 800/2400 MHz
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi
Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 32.03 GiB (6.9%)
Info: Processes: 207 Uptime: 32m Memory: 7.68 GiB used: 1.51 GiB (19.7%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.36 >>

This is from the the winetricks log
andale
arial
comicsans
courier
georgia
impact
times
trebuchet
verdana
webdings
corefonts
w_workaround_wine_bug-43506
adobeair
w_workaround_wine_bug-34803
remove_mono
remove_mono

It was a mistake ticking the adobeair dll I don't think I need it

Any help would be greatly appreciated - this is a very good programme and one of the few I really want from windows

[jkfloris]

Graphics card supporting Shader Model 1.1 Unknown

Did you install the 32-bit Mesa packages? If you followed the directions on WineHQ and used "--install-recommends", you should.

[Ironfighter]

Jkfloris thank you for your reply:

“ Did you install the 32-bit Mesa packages? If you followed the directions on WineHQ and used "--install-recommends", you should.”

The answer is no but I will now that you have pointed me to it and post the outcome

[Ironfighter]

Jkfloris - I removed my installation of Wine (long story short I was getting errors) but after that I was able to start by following your advice on Wine HQ forum - in the terminal I ran:-

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

But then I got stuck at the "Add Repository" Stage so:

This is the procedure I followed:

Ran every command on this page in the Terminal
https://wine.htmlvalidator.com/install- ... ux-19.html

From there I took followed this advice from this You Tuber - he really helped me understand what is involved in this process:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOdA5GeSqs
as follows:-

mkdir Wine
cd Wine
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/"Username"/Wine/Lisa winecfg
Wine installed Mono & Gecko itself after I agreed.
Windows Version 7

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/"Username"/Wine/Lisa winetricks
Install dll Zenity Dotnet 2.0 dxvk vcrun6 wsh52 xna3.1

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/"Username"/Wine/Lisa wine lisa800setup.exe

From there it was just like any installation I had done in Windows
I got one pop up error relating to MS Visual Basic (which this programme doesn't require according to the Lisa help guy). When I clicked OK it just disappeared and the programme loaded up.

I then loaded quite a complex file which I had created some time ago in Windows. It loaded up fine. The only thing I couldn't get working was the graphics animation of the FEM Solution but everything else appears good. If anyone can come up with a way to resolve that issue I would be Windows Free

[iosman001]

Pretty much. Though only the 'winetricks' directory under .cache if it's there, ignore it if not. (.cache has things like your web browser cache which you probably don't want.) Also by default wine uses symlinks under C:\users to ~/Documents and others. It's possible some apps may use those so it's something to check if you find out you're missing something. Thanks

[iosman001]

Pretty much. Though only the 'winetricks' directory under .cache if it's there, ignore it if not. (.cache has things like your web browser cache ... which you probably don't want.) Also by default wine uses symlinks under C:\users to ~/Documents and others. It's possible some apps may use those so it's something to check if you find out you're missing something. Thanks

thanks my issue has been fixed.

[Ironfighter]

“ thanks my issue has been fixed.”

iosman001-thank you for your response. When I tried to use the programme I found that there were some items missing from the menu structure and some other graphics problems so I decided this was not the way to go. I have been able to get it operating properly in a VM so I have settled for that solution.

Please accept my apologies for not responding to your post.