Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?

• dxwrapper

  33 1,111 9.4 C

  Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.

There's also dxwrapper that implements old DirectDraw/3D interfaces with newer D3D9 api for better compatibility with newer Windows versions:

https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

• scummvm

  165 2,199 10.0 C++

  ScummVM main repository

  

It's a long shot, but some old games are available via https://www.scummvm.org/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

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• OldCPUSimulator

  1 21 6.5 C++

  This command line tool simulates running a process on a CPU with a slower clock speed in order to make old games run at the correct speed or underclock CPU intensive processes like video encoding.

There are ways to ask a cpu to emulate a given clockspeed.

https://github.com/tomysshadow/OldCPUSimulator as a random result on the topic

• Boxedwine

  10 747 8.0 C

• qemu-3dfx

  18 344 8.4 C

  MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU

I've been porting this to Nixos all week. Handles glide emulation pretty well

https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

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