[Bug 58963] New: Stratego (1997) fails to start

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58963

Bug ID: 58963
           Summary: Stratego (1997) fails to start
           Product: Wine
           Version: 10.18
          Hardware: x86-64
               URL: https://archive.org/details/STRATEGO
                OS: MacOS
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Created attachment 79665
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=79665
log with bidi and font channels enabled

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #58942 +++
** NOTE: **
I created this bug because I was asked to create a separate bug for the issue
that occurs while starting the game. See
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58942#c8

% wine --version
wine-10.18

% openssl sha256 STRATEGO.iso
SHA2-256(STRATEGO.iso)=
e82340b5e23554618dfe406c102ca2a793b34e49723e921e5cc6a5911a9867e1

I'm trying to install Stratego from here:
https://archive.org/details/STRATEGO

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the ISO and mount it on your system.
2. Change the configuration options of Wine to map E: to the path where the ISO
image was mounted, as well as the Operating System to Windows XP (or Windows 98
- shouldn't matter)
3. Install Stratego by running the SETUP.EXE file with wine.
4. Start Stratego by running the Stratego.exe in C:/Program Files (x86)/Hasbro
Interactive/Stratego/Stratego.exe

Expected Result:
Stratego starts

Actual result:
Error message "Unable to 'CreateScalableFontResource()'"

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joaopa 2025-11-10 16:55:21 CET

Created attachment 79644 [details]
log with bidi and font channels enabled

In the log on can read : 0128:trace:bidi:CreateScalableFontResourceW (1,
L"C:\Program Files (x86)\Hasbro Interactive\Stratego\Ly2.for",
L"C:\windows\system32\Ly2.ttr", (null))
===

joaopa 2025-11-10 21:35:08 CET

in relay one can read

00b4:Call KERNEL32.HeapFree(7ffffe320000,00000000,00000000) ret=6ffffea85eba
00f4:Call KERNEL32.GetFullPathNameA(015c873c
"Grfx\Ly2.enc",00000104,0022f900,0022f8d0) ret=00469a34
0034:Call ucrtbase.strchr(7ffffe3bec40
"application/x-kourse:*.course\n",0000000a) ret=14000338b
00b4:Ret  KERNEL32.HeapFree() retval=00000001 ret=6ffffea85eba
00f4:Call ntdll.RtlInitAnsiString(0022f4f0,015c873c "Grfx\Ly2.enc")
ret=7b613a62
0034:Ret  ucrtbase.strchr() retval=7ffffe3bec5d ret=14000338b
00b4:Call KERNEL32.HeapFree(7ffffe320000,00000000,00000000) ret=6ffffea85ec7
00f4:Ret  ntdll.RtlInitAnsiString() retval=0000000d ret=7b613a62
0034:Call ucrtbase.strchr(7ffffe3bec40
"application/x-kourse:*.course",0000003a) ret=140003417
00b4:Ret  KERNEL32.HeapFree() retval=00000001 ret=6ffffea85ec7
00f4:Call ntdll.RtlAnsiStringToUnicodeString(7ffc2bf8,0022f4f0,00000000)
ret=7b613aae
0034:Ret  ucrtbase.strchr() retval=7ffffe3bec54 ret=140003417
00b4:Ret  ucrtbase._wcsicmp() retval=00000003 ret=6ffffb9e64d2
00f4:Ret  ntdll.RtlAnsiStringToUnicodeString() retval=00000000 ret=7b613aae
0034:Call ucrtbase.malloc(00000020) ret=14000342f
00b4:Call ucrtbase._wcsicmp(7fffff2fe080 L"Strings",7ffffe3ce62a
L"DestinationDirs") ret=6ffffb9e64d2
00f4:Call ntdll.RtlGetFullPathName_U(7ffc2c00
L"Grfx\Ly2.enc",00000208,0022f528,0022f524) ret=7b5c5dc3

but I do not know what it means.

but Ly2.for and Ly2.ttr don't exist. That is surely the culprit
===

Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus 2025-11-10 22:02:59 CET

I just got myself a complete WINEDEBUG=+all log.

I noticed the following line there:

678335.510:00d4:00d8:trace:file:NtCreateFile handle=0x1001ff3f8 access=80100080
name=L"\??\C:\Program Files (x86)\Hasbro Interactive\Stratego\Ly2.for"
objattr=00000040 root=0x0 sec=0x0 io=0x1001ff400 alloc_size=0x0 attr=00000080
sharing=00000000 disp=1 options=00000060 ea=0x0.0x00000000

It looks like the application is creating the file itself, but failing. I'll
upload the log in a few.

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Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus 2025-11-11 00:53:32 CET

I have tried Stratego on an old Windows XP VM, where it works.

===

Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus 2025-11-11 17:44:49 CET 
I just created a batch file that continuously prints the contents of the
"C:/Program Files/Hasbro Interactive/Stratego" directory and I noticed that,
indeed, the Ly2.for file is created after the application started and removed
again on exit:

```
:loop
dir "C:/Programme/Hasbro Interactive/Stratego"
ping -n 6 127.0.0.1 > nul
goto loop
```

(In case you're wondering, the ping command is to imitate a "sleep for 5
seconds, so you don't get overwhelmed with messages").