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GOG is full of older games updated to run on newer platfroms

Many of my favorite games are older Windows or DOS games, such as Star Trek: Armada, Age of Empires, Descent, and Commander Keen.

If only I could get these to work on my M1 MacBook Pro. Now that would be something.

Have you tried GOG.com? They use Dosbox as emulator inside their software, so any DOS game should run on Apple silicon (or Windows 11).

Sure, but it's not every game. Most people have an obscure white whale they felt was a classic that's now in limbo because the publisher is gone.

Also I remember back from my gaming days that some then-old (now older) games required specific hacks or workarounds to run on "real" then-modern Windows, some possibly incompatible.

Whereas Wine could be made to have tailored instances per game (which I think PlayOnLinux, Crossover, Proton... are doing), giving the best experience for each game.

IIRC there are even some games that can now only be run on Windows by running them via Wine on Windows.

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