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[-] morto@piefed.social 51 points 3 months ago

Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Soon? Let's talk DOSBox

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 13 points 3 months ago

For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there's 86Box.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Bookmarking softgpu that's a great link, thanks.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Already does.

this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025

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