vDos hangs after minutes of inactivity

[Graham Lunt]

Wine version: wine-5.0.2
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome
Program: https://www.vdos.info/

I am a Wine novice. Using Wine unmodified.

Trying to run the excellent vDos emulator using the EATMEM 64 to run NewViews accounting software.

The program runs for some time ( minutes) with no problems.
When the Wine window focus is lost or screen saver comes on then on return to the window the following error appears
" Wine Windows Program Loader" is not responding - wait or force quit

The error also occurs when running only vDos ( no New Views running)

Wait -does nothing
Force -quit exits the program

Any help would be appreciated
Regards Graham Lunt

[jkfloris]

Can't you use dosbox? Or try the NewViews program directly with Wine?

[Graham Lunt]

DosBox works however vDos runs faster and shows more lines of the screen. It is much more productive to work with vDos because you don't have to scroll to see the last columns of the page. Wine can't run NewViews alone.

[qwertymnb]

Hi, I tried this but it doesn`t hang here (wine-5.16 on Debian)

Things worth to try maybe (?):

-Try run form terminal (wine vDos.exe) and look for suspicious console output

- Try wine-5.16

Difficult to guess what could be wrong, as i cannot reproduce this hang...

Regards

[JosSchaars]

No vDos version mentioned, do you use the latest (2020.03.01) version?

[Graham Lunt]

Thanks for replies
I was running Wine version: wine-5.0.2

Will try wine 5.16
Thanks

[Graham Lunt]

No vDos version mentioned, do you use the latest (2020.03.01) version?

Yes, its the latest version.

[Graham Lunt]

Recent update now runs wine 5.18. Error still appears. Attached is the Wine error notification file
Regards Graham

[qwertymnb]

Hi

Could you also post the console output before the crash happens?

Regards