DOSVM_Int10Handler

[pj]

Hello,

Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS program (database gui for Clipper5 called dbu.exe). The layout of Wine is well thought out. Anyway, the problem is the following that I just have a blank window. I ran the code (found that in the forum, thankyou) for old 16bit programs first:

sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0

This is the terminal readout:

paul@paul-asus-laptop:~$ wine start 'c:\Program Files\dbu.exe'
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500
paul@paul-asus-laptop:~$ fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Set Background/Border Color: 0/1

Any help greatly appreciated!

Kind regards

[vitamin]

Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS program

Wine has lots of problems with DOS emulation. You should try DOSBOX or DOSEmu instead.

[pj]

Thanks for the prompt reply - I will try them out.

[David Gerard]

2008/12/19 vitamin <[email protected]>:

pj wrote:

Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS program

Wine has lots of problems with DOS emulation. You should try DOSBOX or DOSEmu instead.

Although these are more likely to get the user a functioning program
quickly - are bugs in Wine's DOS emulation considered valid reportable
bugs?


- d.

[austin987]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

2008/12/19 vitamin <[email protected]>:

pj wrote:

Downloaded and installed Wine to run an old DOS program

Wine has lots of problems with DOS emulation. You should try DOSBOX or DOSEmu instead.

Although these are more likely to get the user a functioning program
quickly - are bugs in Wine's DOS emulation considered valid reportable
bugs?


- d.

Most definitely.

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-Austin

[pj]

Although these are more likely to get the user a functioning program
quickly - are bugs in Wine's DOS emulation considered valid reportable
bugs?

I suppose the bugs could be so regarded, although I do understand the the Wine project is more directed towards present and future Microsoft products. I did install dosemu in between these posts, and it works perfectly well with the dbu.exe program, and so if DOS emulation is not absolutely necessary, then the Wine crew would just be perhaps re-inventing the wheel.

Perhaps you are being too hard a task master?!

kind regards

[austin987]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:28 PM, pj <[email protected]> wrote:

Although these are more likely to get the user a functioning program
quickly - are bugs in Wine's DOS emulation considered valid reportable
bugs?

I suppose the bugs could be so regarded, although I do understand the the Wine project is more directed towards present and future Microsoft products. I did install dosemu in between these posts, and it works perfectly well with the dbu.exe program, and so if DOS emulation is not absolutely necessary, then the Wine crew would just be perhaps re-inventing the wheel.

Wine still aims to support all windows apps, and some apps require
both DOS and Win32 APIs. We need to fix those bugs. Sadly, DOSemu and
DOSBox are both under the GPL, so wine (LGPL) can't use their code.

So please, search for similar bug reports and if you can't find one,
file a bug. No one may fix it soon, since it's not a big deal for most
people, but it should still be fixed.

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-Austin