Re: win3.1 attempts :)

Ryan Underwood
2003-09-21T00:40:58Z

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:04:00PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Ryan Underwood wrote:
> >So, armed with a fresh copy of DOSEMU 1.1.5.7 and quite happy with
> > the changelog entry referring to windows, I set out to create a
> >fresh win3.1 setup on my machine to help with hacking WINE.
> With a 16-bit windows? Probably not very usefull.

WINE does run 16-bit applications to some degree of success. I have some
16-bit programs that it does not run however.

> >The initial file copy completes, then crashes to dos instead of
> >starting windows.
> That's the point where you have to give up. The
> problem is that it (most likely) simply runs win.com,
> which is trying dosx.exe or win386.exe - both
> without any success.

But at this point, no win.com exists. Should it?

> >Windows can be started manually in the same way as before.
> That's the wrong way, please use the winemu.bat instead,
> or, even better, write your own .com loader (see above).

Well, it is okay because the paths are correct when starting it from the
windows directory. That is all the winemu.bat really fixes.

> >I would like to be able to fully install WFW3.11 under dosemu
> That might be possible, but will probably require
> a significant amount of work...

It seems very close as it is....