cnc-ddraw

> I installed Wine in Ubuntu running in WSL on a Windows 11 machine, and the game runs in that environment! Never thought I would run an old game in such a convoluted way. You don't need WSL. https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag Compiled wined3d dlls that work on windows. https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk Works on windows. Just drop them in the game folder and the game should load them instead of the real directx. There's also other implementations of old APIs to keep old video games running, some of them are even used by linux users who use wine, like dgVoodoo : http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/ (supports Glide, a proprietary API from the 3dfx era cards, along with dx 1-7, 8.1 and 9) https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw (fixes all issues you can have with DirectDraw, an old 2d API, can have its use for both windows users and pe

Older games without DRM or other networked services also may not work due to graphics incompatibility. (cnc-ddraw salvages a lot of them though: https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw)

Name the games. There are plenty of DirectDraw wrappers fixing old games https://www.nongnu.org/wined3d/ https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag http://dege.freeweb.hu/ https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper https://sol.gfxile.net/ddhack/index.html even Win10 ships with own ddraw.dll wrapper.

I recently learned Github is internally using AWS, and not Azure, for file storage !?!?! :o for example https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw/files/4974882/ddraw.zip redirects to https://github-production-repository-file-5c1aeb.s3.amazonaw...

ts-ddraw and cnc-ddraw provide a decent base for certain ddraw games C&C95, Red Alert, Warcraft 2, C&C Tiberian Sun, and Red Alert 2. This is Warcraft 2 with cnc-ddraw using xbrz: https://i.imgur.com/sG1DC23.png https://github.com/CnCNet/cnc-ddraw https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-ddraw Use case https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/97l5bk/cc_tib...