installing a windows 3.1/95 program

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · Post by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:46 am

I've been asked to try and get an old program running on one of the newer machines so we can lose the windows 98 machine.

so shoved the floppy in, got it started to install in wine no problems, however midway through installation I get "error, unable to install font"

now I've shoved the 98 hard disk in the machine, and copied everything in the font folder to the font folder on the virtual c drive.

I've tried copying and pasting all the files associated with the program onto the virtual c drive. but I cant get it to work.

any ideas on how to get this program running

(the program is called PC Genius, it was a kids magazine with computer game attached to it, needless to say its not in the wine APPdb

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:56 am

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:I've been asked to try and get an old program running on one of the newer machines so we can lose the windows 98 machine.

so shoved the floppy in, got it started to install in wine no problems, however midway through installation I get "error, unable to install font"

now I've shoved the 98 hard disk in the machine, and copied everything in the font folder to the font folder on the virtual c drive.

I've tried copying and pasting all the files associated with the program onto the virtual c drive. but I cant get it to work.

any ideas on how to get this program running

(the program is called PC Genius, it was a kids magazine with computer game attached to it, needless to say its not in the wine APPdb

What version of Wine? If it's not the latest development release, upgrade. If that doesn't work, post console output.

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · Post by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:35 pm

how do you find out what version of wine is on there.

I'm updating anyway, and will see whether I get any luck that way

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · Post by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:48 pm

ah, no edit facility on this forum.

its the latest version (1.1.25)

so no luck installing it that way.

so sounding like a complete noob, how'd I get the console output

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:50 pm

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:ah, no edit facility on this forum.

its the latest version (1.1.25)

so no luck installing it that way.

so sounding like a complete noob, how'd I get the console output

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:54 pm

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn wrote:
ah, no edit facility on this forum.

BTW, the reason for that is that the forum is tied to the mailing list
and if you did edit your message on the forum the mailing list would
probably not see the change.

John