Trying to get paradox running and having issues

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Trying to get paradox running and having issues

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Paradox is very old database programming software, I am running manarjo

when I try to run:

wine ‘/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86) /Paradox Runtime/Programs/pdxrwn32.exe’

I get back:

wine: failed to open “/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86) /Paradox Runtime/Programs/pdxrwn32.exe”: c0000135

I have also tried running:
cd ‘/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Paradox Runtime/Programs/’

then running:

wine pdxwin32.exe

and I get back:

Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found

I reinstalled wine, and I know that it says win32 but I checked and its called that because when they updated it to 64bit in 2009 they did not bother to rename it.
back in 2014 people were able to get it running using wine so it was possible at some point. to my knowledge paradox has not been updated since 2009.
Here’s the link to someone running it, so that you know I am not crazy.
viewtopic.php?t=21881 3

Thank you for your time
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