Charles Davis wrote: > On 7/12/10 3:52 PM, James Mckenzie wrote: > > > Charles Davis <cdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Sent: Jul 12, 2010 1:18 PM > > > To: wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: 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]
