Running old dos games under wine?
 

Has anyone been able to successfully run old msdos games under wine? I've got an copy of sentinel worlds, and I was feeling nostalgic for something a little old school...

I've got Wine 20030709, and it works fine for anything w/ a gui. Unfortunately trying to run my game I get the following:

fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x00)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index,fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x04)
fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3ce: 0x08 (value 0x00)
fixme:int:DOSVM_Int10Handler Select Active Display Page (1) - Not Supported

Any help, or suggestions you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

How about DOSEMU?

http://www.dosemu.org/

Ian

Thanks for the info... I'll give it a try

That program is trying to access the hardware directly, instead of through the win32/dos APIs that WINE supports. I imagine that WINE will eventually support these things, but not currently.

the only other thing i can suggest, is to go into the wine "config" file in the .wine folder, and uncomment the line "DOS"="x.xx" (x's are version number) and have it set to imitate a dos version....

The uncomment thing won't work.
Wine doesn't implement many of the old dos hardware calls.
Dosemu i've found to run a lot of things, but it's still quite buggy, especially with games. Try dosbox, and bochs too. See which works best.