win9x mode gone

Damian Ivanov damianatorrpm at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 05:51:31 CST 2013


On openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 I have installed wine and wine-32bit, wine[and
pressing tab gives me]
wine              wine64-preloader  winecfg           winedbg
 winemine          wine-preloader    winetricks
wine64            wineboot          wineconsole       winefile
 winepath          wineserver

So I have only one winecfg there, with default prefix created I can't
set dos based win versions. So earliest is xp. At least a note in
winecfg would have been great :)
I just needed the win95 because I was asked if bug is still
reproducible http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29085 ;)

2013/11/15 Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>



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