http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16703
--- Comment #4 from Martin Storsjö wine@martin.st 2009-09-08 15:59:53 --- Yes, retested with the latest version from git, this issue is still present.
To elaborate a bit further; if wineconsole is launched e.g. like this: "wineconsole --backend=curses cmd", but no curses library is present, wineconsole should fall back to using the window based backed instead - just like wineconsole falls back to trying the curses backend if the window based one fails, normally.