[PATCH 2/5] winecfg: Bring back 32-bit Windows versions for 64-bit WINEPREFIXES

Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 02:42:46 CST 2015


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Am 2015-01-12 um 08:15 schrieb Austin English:
>> Wine already handles 32-/64-bit, there's no need to deny users 
>> access to Windows 2000 just because they've installed Wine using 
>> the default settings on the 64-bit machines.
> 
> Again, yes there is. Win2k doesn't support 64 bit. It's a 
> nonexistent platform, and allowing it would likely introduce
> unknown behavior in some applications.
What does a 64 bit Windows do when you tell it to run foo.exe in Win98
compatibility mode?

- From a user point of view I agree with Ken. I have plenty of old games
that refuse to run on anything but Win98 only because of a broken
version check (e.g. Need for Speed 2, 3). They run just fine in a 64
bit Wineprefix after I've used the 32 bit winecfg build to set
winver=win98 via appdefault.

Otoh we can keep the "user 32 bit winecfg" solution as it is as a "use
this at your own risk" fix.
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