How do I run a .com file through wine?

Drowsy · Post by **Drowsy** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:35 pm

I've only just installed wine with the specific purpose of playing some of the old Wizardry games. However, these games come as .com files and not as .exe files. Will I be able to play them through wine?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:50 pm

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Drowsy <[email protected]> wrote:

I've only just installed wine with the specific purpose of playing some of the old Wizardry games. However, these games come as .com files and not as .exe files. Will I be able to play them through wine?

Use 'wine cmd'

stimpak · Post by **stimpak** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:59 pm

wow i didnt know wine had its own cmd...

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Sat May 17, 2008 6:46 pm

Ok .com is a dos program not a windows one.

Wine does have dos layour just not a good one.

Dosemu and dosbox are better at running dos applications. Of course running it to find bugs in wine is fine. Just don't expect wine to run it well.

Drowsy · Post by **Drowsy** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:43 am

Thanks for the advice, guys. I've gone the DOSBOX route and it's working a treat. Ah, sweet nostalgia