First post, by Sol_HSA
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So, just a heads up - I'm working on a "directdraw hack" to make some old windows games (more) playable on modern windows.
I'm concentrating on getting the windows versions of wing commander 1, 2, 3 and 4. Thread on wcnews.com forums here: http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=26244.
Basically it's a reimplementation of ddraw.dll, which also hijacks the application's window function, and uses a desktop-sized window, outputting the game's input full screen with OpenGL, with optional filtering applied.
Once I'm done with it I'll release the sources so other people may use it as basis on getting other games to work.
It is *not*, by any means, a complete reimplementation, and I'm only hacking the bits that are required to get wc1-4 working; and many of those things are definitely hacks, kludges and generally bad things. So if other software works out of the box, it'll be a miracle.
http://iki.fi/sol - my schtuphh