On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jakob Eriksson wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
Stas Sergeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Another way of saying the same thing: I absolutely hate seeing patches that fix some theoretical issue that no Linux apps will ever care about.
No, it is not theoretical, but it is mainly about a DOS games and an MS linker, as for me. The things I'd like to get working, but the ones you may not care too much about:) The particular game I want to get working, is "Master of Orion 2" for DOS.
How about you just run it in dosbox instead of dosemu ?
Yes, that's a solution of course, but it is a bit like saying why not use Open Office instead of MS Word.
A long term goal of wine is to support DOS apps to. Of course it's not a priority, but it's there.
regards, Jakob
Can you tell me how the invisible high-word (invisible in VM-86, and in real mode) could possibly harm something running in VM-86 or read-mode ??? I don't even think it's a BUG. If the transition into and out of VM-86 doesn't handle the fact that the high-word of the stack hasn't been used in VM-86, then that piece of code is bad (the SP isn't even the same stack, BTW).
Because even in 16-bit mode (real, vm86 or 16-bit protected) you can use 32-bit instructions, with an operand and/or address size override prefix. Of course this only works on 386 or later.
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Brian Gerst
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