MYST won't install - need 256 color mode - intel video

[mpurtell]

I've been trying to install Myst on a 32 bit debin linux system. Launching the install.exe for myst produces an error indicating wine needs to be in 256 color mode. I have followed numerous examples to no avail. I have intel video and wine-staging 1.9.6 installed. Any help would be much appreciated. - Thanks, mike

[dimesio]

https://wiki.winehq.org/256_Color_Mode

[mpurtell]

I see the statement

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Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600x8 &
DISPLAY=:1 xterm

but how or where is this to be used? Inline with the launch command? in a shell script that calls wine and the exe?

As an example, this would call my install.exe

#/bin/bash
wine /media/mandbx/MYST/install.exe

Include the xephyr lines in here?

edit: I think this one might be solved.

[mpurtell]

when I execute

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Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600x8 & DISPLAY=:1 xterm

I get this error

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[1] 9235
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :1

[spoon0042]

Xephyr probably isn't starting instantly, putting a 'sleep 5;' (or whatever is long enough for it to be ready) between the two commands should work.

[mpurtell]

Xephyr probably isn't starting instantly, putting a 'sleep 5;' (or whatever is long enough for it to be ready) between the two commands should work.

It took a couple tries but I finally came up with

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Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600x8 & DISPLAY=:1 sleep 5
wine start /unix /media/mandbx/MYST/install.exe -- :1

Putting the sleep between setting up Xephyr and the call to launch install.exe and I no longer get the Zephyr error. This specific problem is solved but I still have another problem which I will follow up on in this thread.