https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45868
--- Comment #12 from Maik Wagner maiktapwagner@aol.com --- Thanks for the information Alistair.
For Slackware the latest package was 9.7-staging so I had to compile my own version of wine and make a package out of it.
I tried the URL mentioned in the report from archive.org to download "Windower Portable" but the sha1sum didn't match what was originally reported.
I therefore then turned to Austin's link of Affinity Designer 1.8.2 with the following specifications and created a fresh prefix, installed .net in it:
bash-5.1$ sha1sum affinity-designer-1.8.2.exe 00cdf703a24cb8b98e7d2c8afc8cf66bccbb57ff affinity-designer-1.8.2.exe bash-5.1$ wine --version wine-9.15-449-g164992ecbef (Staging)
"winetricks -q dotnet472" took quite a long time to install and it would be a good idea to speed up installation up if possible.
Anyway, I ran my wine 9.15-staging with the affinity-designer-1.8.2.exe file but still couldn't run the installer.
The good news is, that I didn't get a backtrace either: An image popped up "Exeption: Image Loading failed".
Hope this helps a little. Maik