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Breathing New Life Into Old DirectDraw Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-love-to-old-games dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I bought a bunch of old Wing Commander games for Windows, but they use DirectDraw, which Microsoft has deprecated. They don't work too well under Windows 7, so I ended up reimplementing ddraw.dll using OpenGL to output the games' graphics. I wrote an article describing the process and all the fun workarounds I had to come up with, and released all related source code for others to hack on."

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  1. Re:Wine? by Chyeld · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you can run Wine in Windows now? How delightfully recursive.

    Oh wait, you meant that Wing Commander ran great in a different OS that most people don't install by default just to play ancient games. Thus attempting to insinuate that someone doing a hobby project to 'fix' it so Wing Commander ran well in the current version of Windows is somehow wasting their time.

    Man, glad you weren't around to advise Linus...