From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 19:24:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5251A106566C for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:24:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+3C=99394c1b@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-08.mxes.net (mxout-08.mxes.net [216.86.168.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295668FC18 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:24:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+3C=99394c1b@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EEFD0502 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:24:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:24:30 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081026192430.0ea2fb23@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20081025015522.GA23838@thought.org> References: <20081025015522.GA23838@thought.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: WINE 21.1.5 QUESTION... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:24:53 -0000 On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:55:26 -0700 Gary Kline 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.