Re: Running MoneyCounts 8.0 for DOS

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Wine Mailing List wrote:

> OS: SuSE 10.0
> Wine: v20050725-3.2
> 
> I am trying to move this ancient DOS accounting application from a dying
> SCO OpenServer system where it has run happily under DOS/Merge for years.
> The original installation have long since disappeared.  I made a tar
> archive of the mc8 directory and all its subdirectories. moved it to the
> SuSE box and untarred it under my ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/mc8
> directory.
> 
> When attempting to execute using "wine mc8.exe" from the above directory,
> in an X11 terminal window I get:
> 
> Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
>          NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Position mouse cursor
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported
> 
> If I use wineconsole, these message are flashed on the screen but covered
> by a solid black window.
> 
> Attempting to to execute from a character console session, I get:
> 
> fixme:ttydrv:TTYDRV_GetBitmapBits (0x1a4, 0x40396c24, 128): stub
> fixme:ttydrv:TTYDRV_GetBitmapBits (0x1a0, 0x40396ca4, 128): stub
> fixme:ttydrv:TTYDRV_GetBitmapBits (0x1ac, 0x40396eec, 128): stub
> fixme:ttydrv:TTYDRV_GetBitmapBits (0x1a8, 0x40396f6c, 128): stub
> Warning: unprotecting memory to allow real-mode calls.
>          NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int33Handler Position mouse cursor
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported
> fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Get Font Information - Not Supported
> 
> Needless to say, I am new to wine and would appreciate any pointers ...
> 
> Thank you,
> Lucky



Yikes!

Use DosBox .. I have DosBox mounted on my machine and will run just about
anything  including old DOS games from the early 1980's.

HTH,

Dave



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