[Wine] DOS programs on OSX?

[johnsankey]

from the website intro page:
Wine's main task is to run Windows executables under non Windows operating systems. It supports different types of executables:
DOS executable. Those are even older programs, using the DOS format (either .com or .exe (the later being also called MZ)).

Tried it:
fixme:module:__wine_load_dos_exe DOS executables not supported on this platform

in thread Execution DOS exe program via Wine ?:
Maybe 'wineconsole' (comes with wine) will work better for you. And maybe you need something like dosemu...

What's the best way forward on OSX 10.6.8?