[Wine] Running Turbo C

[David Rowell]

I've had good results running DOSBOX.  MS Prof Basic runs like a charm!

Dave

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I must run Turbo C for the university. The install seemed to go
>> alright, but when I try to run it I get:
>> $ wine TC.EXE
>> Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
>>         NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
>> err:module:MZ_DoLoadImage insufficient DOS memory
>> winevdm: can't exec 'C:\tc\BIN\TC.EXE': error=8
>>
>> What should I do? I've 512 MB RAM- I can't imagine that Turbo C needs
> 
> Read the error message. It clearly states that you do not have enough
> free _DOS_ memory. 
> 
>> that much and more!
> 
> Indeed not. Such an ancient program runs on DOS, and that is the problem:
> You need something like dosemu, not wine.
> 
> Daniel