On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 01.04.2010 um 11:24 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander: >> First of all welcome to Wine. Myself I'm a bit worried about whether >> we should improve our DOS support even further. The problem is that >> more and more people are moving over to 64-bit Linux. While you can >> run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system, there is no protected mode >> support (vm86; there is emulation in some cases using a kernel >> module). > There's protected mode 32 bit, protected mode 16 bit, but no vm86 16 bit. So > no real mode apps in Wine. We'd need to integrate a CPU emulator or JIT > compiler into Wine to get this working. > > There are a surprising big number of Win95 area apps that have an installer > that starts off in vm86 mode... > > > >
Actually we don't need a CPU emulator for 64 bit after all. There's a project on Sourceforge that's gotten VM86 working in 64-bit Linux: http://v86-64.sourceforge.net/ It claims to work with Wine. Damjan
