[Wine] 16-Bit/DOS Suppor Missing?

[Charles Davis]

On 7/12/10 2:36 PM, dwarfcricket wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, dwarfcricket <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Well I thought so, too, but when I try to run it in DOS it says "This program requires Microsoft Windows."    :|
>>>
>>> Am I doomed?  Have all my efforts been futile?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> virtualbox/qemu emulation (not HW virtulization) mode + win9X
>>
>> John
> 
> 
> Not to be a pain... but I'm new at this stuff - and that looks like gibberish... i know this is all pretty simple, but I'm just trying to get my footing.  So... what should I do with that? [Embarassed]
What he thinks you should do is install a virtual machine (like
VirtualBox) or an emulator (like QEMU) and install a version of Windows
(like Win95/98/ME) that has very good support for 16-bit programs. But,
again, that requires a Windows license that you may or may not have.

Chip