[Wine] Re: 16-Bit/DOS Suppor Missing?

[dwarfcricket]

Charles Davis wrote:
> On 7/12/10 3:52 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
> 
> > Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sent: Jul 12, 2010 1:18 PM
> > > To: wine-users at winehq.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Wine] 16-Bit/DOS Suppor Missing?
> > > 
> > > On 7/12/10 2:10 PM, dwarfcricket wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Currently attempting to run an old PC game on my Mac (Leopard).  I've installed Wine
> > > > using MacPorts, which worked flawlessly.  Now when I attempt to install my PC Game the
> > > > terminal responds with "16-Bit/DOS Support missing."
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a way to fix this?
> > > > 
> > > Yeah. Run it in DOSBox. You're never going to run that under Wine on a
> > > Mac. That's because the Mac OS X kernel lacks Virtual-8086 mode support.
> > > And it's not trivial to add it, either--especially because most modern
> > > Macs run in 64-bit mode where v86 mode doesn't work.
> > > 
> > 
> > The problem is not 64 bitness, but a broken ld program that came with XCode 3.1.  There is a patch to fix this on Wine's Bugzilla and you have to download the source for ld from opensource.apple.com.
> > 
> I told him about that.
> 
> > Also, there is very little truth to the fact that running X86 processors in 64 bit mode disables v86 mode.
> > 
> I could swear that you couldn't enter v86 mode when in 64-bit mode. I
> seem to remember reading something about that in an early x64 manual I had.
> 
> > Maybe Apple disabled this in Snow Leopard, but Vista 64 supports running Win16 programs.
> > 
> That's because you don't need v86 to run most Win16 programs; they run
> in 16-bit protected mode (which IS supported even in 64-bit mode).
> 
> Chip


Ahem - told *her* about that, Chip :-P

Thanks for the info., James.  I'll try the patch and see if that fixes this up.  It's so lame that I'm going through all of this for a silly old PC game  [Laughing]