[Wine] Re: Running Turbo C

[G.S. Link]

G.S. Link wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>> On 13/07/06, Plamen Vassilev <plamen.vassilev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Dotan,
>>>
>>> Consider using DosBox from http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
>>> I successfully installed and ran Turbo C from
>>> http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/234112/Spring2006/en/ho_Turbo-C.html
>>> without any tweaking.
>>> I downloaded
>>> http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/234112/Spring2006/ho/WCFiles/TURBOC30.zip, 
>>>
>>> unzipped it and ran the install.exe installer.
>>> The Turbo C installed into C:\TC\
>>> The IDE runs fine and I managed to compile and run a simple Hello world
>>> program that looked like this:
>>>
>>> <CODE>
>>> #include <iostream.h>
>>> main()
>>> {
>>>   cout << "Hello world";
>>> }
>>> </CODE>
>>> the output was as expected.
>>>
>>> I hope it will work for you too.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> regards
>>> Plamen Vassilev
>>> Software Engineer & System Administrator
>>>
>>> Bulgaria, Varna
>>> T: +359 52 644615
>>> M: +359 899 989647
>>> E: plamen.vassilev at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Plamen. I had no luck with dosbox, but I'll try it again.
>> Maybe this time I'll be more determined as I know that you had
>> succeeded. Thank you very much for installing and testing Turbo C.
>>
>> Dotan Cohen
>> http://what-is-what.com
>>
>> OT: We visited Varna in September 2004. We loved it and we'll 
>> definetly be back!
>>
> When running Dosbox please remember that out of the box it will not run 
> on and FC4 or 5 kernel past 2108.  This may be due to some feature of SE 
> Linux but it doesn't run even with SE shut off on later kernels.  Some 
> of the later kernels also seem to cause Wine to do strange things in the 
> video.  I haven't reported a problem because I haven't quite been able 
> to figure out what is wrong.
The latest kernels now run Dosbox correctly.  Whatever the problem it 
has been fixed.