Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:24:30 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINE 21.1.5 QUESTION... Message-ID: <20081026192430.0ea2fb23@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20081025015522.GA23838@thought.org> References: <20081025015522.GA23838@thought.org>
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:55:26 -0700 Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > Maybe somebody here can clue me in on how to get a 1998, > windose3.1/w95 French-learning game to work on my newly built wine. > I asked on the Ubuntu forums and altho somebody did try to help; Zip. > > I do not have a clue to the DOS-path; it's a CDROM and since > I'm using the top CD/DVD optical drive, I'm guessing that it D:\; > right? since C:\ would be the harddrive. I don't know that you actually need to know that. I think you could probably just mount the disk, cd to it, and install or run it from the command line. > Otherwise, no clue. The disc is due back at the library soon > so I want to make the most of it ... even if it does crash every 355 > minutes! You might also try dosbox if the game is DOS compatible. In the mid-nineties at lot of games were either pure DOS applications or had separate windows/dos binaries on the disk, 1998 is a bit late for this though. > The disc is due back at the library soon I doubt anyone would care if you copied it at this stage.
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