Yes, I'm still trying to get this game to work..
I've gone through a multitude of emulators and wrappers until I was directed to try WineBottler - and so far that's the only thing that's allowed me to even give me a glimmer of hope towards getting this old PC game to work.
I've got MacOS X 10.5.8, and I've installed the most recent WineBottler combo (which includes Wine). This game is relatively old, and when I used to attempt to run it through Wine originally it said that 16-bit/DOS support was missing. I can't play the game on DOSBox because it needs Microsoft Windows, and I can't install Windows on DOSBox because I don't have a license [a variety of brick walls, I know].
So WineBottler is my last hope - and in attempting to run it tonight I've been experimenting with some prefixes to see if I can find the right Wine settings (?) to make this little baby run - and I finally got the "Microsoft Home" advertisement that is at the beginning of the game... but I keep getting the message: "winevdm.exe has experienced a serious problem and needs to close." Now, I kept getting this message earlier - but I also never got to the opening screen of the game...
Does this mean I just need to continue messing around with the prefixes and eventually I'll find the magic combination? And if so... I have no idea what most of those prefixes mean. I'm not totally tech savvy, and really need some help, and Google has gotten me nowhere... I've still got the install logs from my previous attempts, and if anyone needs to see those, I can certainly post them. But any help is really appreciated at this point... I'm at my wits end.
I've gone through a multitude of emulators and wrappers until I was directed to try WineBottler - and so far that's the only thing that's allowed me to even give me a glimmer of hope towards getting this old PC game to work.
I've got MacOS X 10.5.8, and I've installed the most recent WineBottler combo (which includes Wine). This game is relatively old, and when I used to attempt to run it through Wine originally it said that 16-bit/DOS support was missing. I can't play the game on DOSBox because it needs Microsoft Windows, and I can't install Windows on DOSBox because I don't have a license [a variety of brick walls, I know].
So WineBottler is my last hope - and in attempting to run it tonight I've been experimenting with some prefixes to see if I can find the right Wine settings (?) to make this little baby run - and I finally got the "Microsoft Home" advertisement that is at the beginning of the game... but I keep getting the message: "winevdm.exe has experienced a serious problem and needs to close." Now, I kept getting this message earlier - but I also never got to the opening screen of the game...
Does this mean I just need to continue messing around with the prefixes and eventually I'll find the magic combination? And if so... I have no idea what most of those prefixes mean. I'm not totally tech savvy, and really need some help, and Google has gotten me nowhere... I've still got the install logs from my previous attempts, and if anyone needs to see those, I can certainly post them. But any help is really appreciated at this point... I'm at my wits end.
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