[Wine] Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits and Misses

[Phil Reynolds]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:40:10AM +0000, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> I am now at the point where I have one more thing to install before I
> can scrap my Windows box - and it's Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits
> and Misses.
> 
> I have installed the DOS-based parts of it in dosbox, and also used
> sarien and freesci to handle some of it, but there is a significant part
> of this collection that needs Windows.
> 
> Trying an installation with the default Windows version set to anything
> NT-based goes wrong: the install tries to default to the wrong drive.
> Allowing access only to the C: and D: drives, it fails to install
> claiming a lack of disk space.
> 
> With the default Windows version set to 95, 98 or ME, the installation
> proceeds, but then appears to do nothing on the appearance of Program
> Manager. If I close it and try to run the programs, they complain about
> missing files, but non-specifically, unless they mention sierra.ini,
> which is in place but the programs are failing to find it.
> 
> Setting the default Windows version to 3.1 gives a problem with one of
> the DLLs (can find out which if necessary) when I try to install, or to
> run winecfg.
> 
> My overall installation is based on winetools, and I am running
> wine-0.9.5. I am prepared to move stuff out of the way to try other
> means of installing, if necessary.

... and the problem persists in wine 0.9.6.

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