Rayman

software: Windows 98,

display: raster

The installer for this game is fully MS-DOS native and will not run on wine. However, it checks for the presence of Windows before running.
Even if wine adds DOS compatibility in the future, the command:
sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
may be necessary to run this game (using wine)

UPDATE: Wine version 1.4 added DOSBox integration. Installers such as this will eventually work.

UPDATE 2: Specifically what is required is full access to the required hardware memory starting at memory location 0. But under Linux, virtual memory location 0 will suffice. Anything in any system that uses the required memory and will not unload or move automatically will cause the same issue. sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0 takes the rather drastic step of telling the Linux Kernel to let anything use location 0 (in virtual memory). Nothing further needs to be done in a Linux system, as it will automatically move other applications to make room for whatever application requests location 0. It always does always for every application requesting a precise location in memory anyway (though very, very few Linux apps are so arrogant as to claim specific locations).

zerothis # 2010-11-20 00:12:45 - 2 replies