[Bug 26715] 16-bit real-mode executables from Windows 1.0 cause DOSBox to be run (vm86 mode not supported on 64-bit Linux)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26715

--- Comment #10 from Serentty <noname422 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Dave from comment #9)
> How about emulation of "real mode" within Wine itself? Maybe with the help
> of virtualisation (which will not cause performance issues)?
> 
> Emulation would overcome the hardware/kernel limitations and allow Wine to
> run many more Windows programs from the past, probably more than Windows 10
> can.

This is something I would really like to look into. I would be willing to work
on such a layer, but I worry that it wouldn't be accepted for merging due to
the low demand. I think it's a real shame that Wine has near 100% coverage of
Windows history, but is missing the first two versions.

Such a layer would also be useful for running Windows 3.1 programs in
distributions that don't allow modifying the LDT.

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