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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."

3 of 274 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Or you could by M.+D.+Kristopeit · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    what part of THE WORK IS ALREADY DONE don't you understand? 100% rule, idiot.

  2. 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...

  3. Re:Or you could by M.+D.+Kristopeit · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    ur mum's face is the prick.

    you are NOTHING