[Wine] Running Turbo C

Legine legine.wine at web.de
Mon Jul 10 10:41:21 CDT 2006


IMO Dosemu is just pain. It was difficult to setup and more diffcult to
maintain since it runs FreeDos in a VMware like envoirement or so.
I think you should try Dosbox like David Powell suggested.
Worked good for me. Thought I never had turbo c.

cya
Peter

Dotan Cohen schrieb:
> On 10/07/06, Daniel Skorka <skorka at gmx.net> 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.
>
> So, is there then no way to increase the amount of memory that wine is
> supplying Turbo C? Like in VMWare player?
>
>> > 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.
>
> Ah, thanks, I'll try dosemu.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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