[Preston] messing with wine

Databug preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Jan 6 16:11:00 2003


On Monday 06 Jan 2003 12:35 am, Jonathan Atkinson wrote:

> To run Wine using a real Windows installation (as most dual-booters
> probably want to), you need to have the files 'io.sys',
> 'msdos.---','msdos.sys', an old-style binary system registry and
> probably a few other things in your Windows partition. This means Win95
> to WinMe will work fine, but the newer Windows releases will not.
>
> As has been said, Winesetup is pretty nice for setting up your command
> line options, but if you want to do things yourself, you can usually
> (depending on your installation) find a really well commented .winerc
> in /usr/share/doc/wine-X.X/, which should be a good starting point.

So as I'm running Win XP does that mean "no go" as far as emulation is=20
concerned?
Are there other emulators that do support XP?

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