win9x mode gone

Hans Leidekker hans at codeweavers.com
Fri Nov 15 06:19:19 CST 2013


On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 12:39 +0100, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am 15.11.2013 um 10:12 schrieb Hans Leidekker <hans at codeweavers.com>:
> 
> > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 15:10 +0200, Damian Ivanov wrote:
> >> In my recent installation on openSUSE 13.1 with wine 1.7.6 I can't
> >> find wine to set winver=win95
> >> only nt based systems are available but with them my app crashes that
> >> it needs win95
> >> 
> >> Is win9x version gone in recent versions? Is it gone because of 64bit OS?
> > 
> > Yes, you can no longer select win9x versions on 64-bit prefixes. You'll
> > need to create a 32-bit prefix.
>  I believe it is enough to explicitly run the 32 bit winecfg, which still allows
>  you to set winver=win95.

Yes, but running 32-bit Wine apps on 64-bit prefixes should be discouraged. It will
not always work.

>  But is there a compelling reason to remove win9x from 64 bit? Setting a Win9x winver
>  helps a lot with Windows 95-era installers that try to use ring0 instructions and expect
>  the error handler to ignore them.

The main reason I think is that we don't want to make it easy for users to select
configurations that we can't support (there's no 64-bit win9x). An advanced user
can still modify the registry or run 32-bit winecfg.





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