alt Hacker NewsI have had very bad success rate with my old Windows CDROM/DVD era games. Pretty much all of them either have some kind of DRM or they run but with bugs.
When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues.
Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox with WINE, someone?
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trollbridge • today at 1:59 PM
You can run Windows 95 in DOSBox. You could also just run WINE which runs most old games.
anthk • today at 2:13 PM
You can use WineD3D for Windows.
Usually dgVoodoo handles most of the games (that don't have actual bugs like this game) fairly well.
Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the early 3D era.
As for DRM, there's various ways around it of course :)