Someone could make a wrapper, like WinQuake did with Quake.

MrEWhite wrote:

Someone could make a wrapper, like WinQuake did with Quake.

iD software made that port, and they were able to since they actually had access to the original source code. There's almost a 0% chance anyone would have access to the source code for an old Win3.x-based SEGA game.

Anyway, the whole inability to run 16-bit apps on 64-bit Windows is a pain in the ass. I'm pretty sure Micro$oft could come up with an elegant solution to it, but they just don't want to bother. 😜 I dunno, does anyone want to reverse-engineer 16-bit Windows and make a WINE equivalent for it?

DOSBOX / VMWare?

While a more elegant solution probably could be made, I doubt people want to bother when there are already options that work perfectly.

It works fine on Win98SE on VMware Player. Not so elegant though, as you say. But I have over 40 games that don't work in Win8.1 (over 420 do tho!), so some more may end up virtualised...

Can you post a list of non working games ?

I can do, but many may work for some people with just a different Nvidia card than mine, so I need to debug them more first...

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I dunno, does anyone want to reverse-engineer 16-bit Windows and make a WINE equivalent for it?

Someone was already toying with that at Wine as Win31 replacement in DOSBox? [Source link included] .