On: Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems

[1313ed01]

I have had very bad success rate with my old Windows CDROM/DVD era games. Pretty much all of them either have some kind of DRM or they run but with bugs.

When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues.

Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox with WINE, someone?

[seritools → 1313ed01]

Usually dgVoodoo handles most of the games (that don't have actual bugs like this game) fairly well.

Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the early 3D era.

As for DRM, there's various ways around it of course :)

[trollbridge → 1313ed01]

You can run Windows 95 in DOSBox. You could also just run WINE which runs most old games.

[anthk → 1313ed01]

You can use WineD3D for Windows.