[Wine] What constitutes a good backtrace?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:39 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>  Mark Knecht wrote:
>  > The app is an old, old game called Lighthouse:The Dark Being which I
>  > never finished in the old days or running Win 95 or Win ME. It came
>  > out in about 1998 and isn't sold anymore. The item that fails is a
>  > small section of the app that tests the system for compatibility. In
>  > the thread called "CDROM detect failed" a couple of days ago I posted
>  > a small PNG file that showed the part of the app that fails. There are
>  > a number of button you push to check things - OS, graphics, processor,
>  > CDROM, etc. Two fail consistently - the CDROM and the processor.
>
>
>  Does it even work on win2k/winxp? Have you tried first? There are more and more things that Wine does the winNT way and not win9x way. So if you have an app that worked on win9x only - most likely it won't work on Wine.
>

I don't load games on my Windows machine anymore. I use Windows to
trade stocks and absolutely nothing else. If I cannot play it in wine
then I won't bother.

Please remember that I've said earlier that the game itself seems to
work fine, or at least well enough for me to install it and start
playing. I don't know if I'll get to the end successfully in Wine but
at least the game itself works well enough to get started. The only
part that I'm filing a report on is the part of the install process
that tests the system for hardware compatibility, and even in that
part only two parts seem to fail - the part that tests the CDROM and
the part that tests the CPU/OS. Even the OS part passes and it's only
the CPU part that the test says fails.

So, I completely understand that wine may never work completely for
all old Windows programs but if I don't report it then it never gets
fixed, right?

If there is a way for me to get even more in depth data I'm happy to
do that. It will take time but I figure why not? I have a lot of old
games that would be fun to revisit. I was thinking that I may start
repeating the process we're going through on Lighthouse on all my old
games jsut to see what works and what doesn't. Isn't that what we're
supposed ot do?

Thanks,
Mark