>even Win10 ships with own ddraw.dll wrapper.

And w98, but everyone knows is slow as fuck. It makes playing 2D games from 1999 with a worse performance than a Pentium 90.

And, yes, I had to use Wine's DDraw while patching the exes in order to run some games fast on my aunt's W10 machine. Those games (nothing fancy, Trivia games, a fancy Hangman, cards, crosswords, puzzles...) ran like butter in my AMD Athlon with Windows 98, unsurprisily.

"La Pesadilla Turca", Spanish edition of "Byzantine: The Betrayal".

I tried several OSes and graphic cards, and no luck.

Windows 95 with Bochs was close, but still slow.

VirtualBox is a no no, too, because the game is really tied to a Pentium processor. Anything faster and you wouldn't react to timed events.

Some people launched it under Virtual PC and W95, but I use Slackware, so it doesn't apply.

Those won't fix every game, but fortunately PCem can do a fine job emulating the appropriate hardware.