On 06/09/2012 01:16 AM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
I'm trying to run the Q&A database in Wine. I change to the QA directory in terminal, type "Wine qa.com", and get this error: err:dosmem:DOSMEM_MapDosLayout Need full access to the first megabyte for DOS mode I know this is some sort of DOS-type error. Any idea how to get past it? Thanks.
I'm far from an expert, but if your Q&A db is truly a DOS program, not a Windows program, it needs to run in DOSBox. WINE is for Windows programs, of any vintage, but not DOS. I have both kinds of programs on my PCLOS machine here, and they both work pretty much as expected, altho not perfectly--I lost my full-screen Pinball (WINE) and I don't know how to fix it--it used to work right. But other WINE routines work OK, and DOS programs in DOSBox work OK also. You can even have your old text-only BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Eureka, NODES, and so on in DOSBox. (NODES even produces some simple graphics.) If your Q&A is really a Windows program, you may have to tell WINE which kind of Windows it is--WINE can be set to mimic Win 95, for instance, if you need it to. Or so I'm told. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley
