[pkg-wine-party] Bug#792125: Should suggest or recommend dosbox for DOS binary support

[Jens Reyer]

control: block -1 by 789092

Hi

I just tested a dos exe unsuccessfully with wine-development (with
dosbox installed), but succeeded with using dosbox directly [1].

http://wiki.winehq.org/DOSBox
"[...]We use it to replace our Virtual 8086 Mode. We started searching
for native dosbox on non-x86 targets with wine-1.3.12. For Wine releases
1.3.30 and later, we added code in Wine and DOSBox for more
compatiblity. The updated DOSBox code is currently only available in the
SVN Version and will be included in DOSBox 0.75."

DOSBox 0.75 hasn't been released yet. Debian has dosbox 0.74-4, and a
wishlist bug for the wine support in dosbox already exists (#789092).

I'm adding that bug as blocking. Once a newer dosbox is available we can
add a dependency with a minimal required version.

If the setup is really working then, I'd suggest a recommends.

Greets
jre


[1]
wine-development INSTALL.EXE (without dosbox installed):
[...]
1hwinevdm: Cannot start DOS application
Z:\home\jens\Downloads\DFCD\INSTALL.EXE
         because the DOS memory range is unavailable.
         You should install DOSBox.


wine-development INSTALL.EXE (with dosbox installed):
[...]
DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file
/home/jens/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/jens/Temp/cfg901.tmp
MIXER:Got different values from SDL: freq 44100, blocksize 512
ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
MIDI:Opened device:none
[program window pop ups shortly, then exits]


dosbox INSTALL.EXE:
DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file
/home/jens/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf
MIXER:Got different values from SDL: freq 44100, blocksize 512
ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
MIDI:Opened device:none
DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto. If
the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options.
[seems to work]