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minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·14 hours agoSoon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·13 hours agoFor early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there’s 86Box.
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 hours agodgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively. Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.
Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.
Soon? Let’s talk DOSBox
For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there’s 86Box.
dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.
Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.