[Wine] Wine problem with warcraft II and ubuntu

[DARKGuy .]

Warcraft II is a DOS-only app (that's why it has DOS4GW.exe), thus, it won't
work under WINE. What works is the graphical Windows installer, but it's
just a "frontend" as to say, an alternate installer, but the game is still
MS-DOS.

Get DOSBox and play War2 ^_^ - BTW don't forget to make a dosbox.conf file
in your home directory (it says how to in their site/docs) and in the CPU
stuff change the core to dynamic so you get a -full- boost of speed using
your processor fully, either it'll emulate a crappy one and you'll get BAD
fps... War2 uses the VESA video mode for 640x480 so...

Good luck

On Feb 1, 2008 12:01 PM, Jan Michalowsky <sejamich at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2008 5:02 PM, Man of Wax <undicizeri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed the latest version of wine in ubuntu gutsy from wine
> > repository (wine version 0.9.54) and when i try to install warcraft II
> > from cd rom i get this error:
> >
> > Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
> >  NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> >
> > and nothing works.
> > I have an acer travelmate 2350...
> > Thank you,
> > Federico :D
> >
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> I guess warcraft II is using Mode 13h and due that it want to allocate
> in real mode, which is not possible.
> You should try to run it in dosbox or so. But that are only assumptions
>
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