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===[[Wrappers]]===
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[[Wine]] is the quintessential compatibility tool for POSIX-based operating systems like Linux and macOS that translates Windows API calls to Linux equivalents. Support for Windows 9x software is quite strong, far superior to that of 64-bit Windows versions. For running games, you'll also want to check out the Linux frontend Lutris, since it includes a plethora of customizations and tweaks for running Windows games. It is also possible to use WineD3D and DXVK on Windows, which may improve compatibility on a case-by-case basis.
Sometimes, all that may be missing in order to get an old game running is a DLL wrapper for the graphics API. This is common for games that were designed for 3Dfx Glide cards. More information is available at the respective page.