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Wine is kinda magical. I really like this old 16bit Windows 3.x game "Castle of The Winds" (topdown, turn based, roguelike) which doesn't run on any 64bit windows as is (though, you CAN, with https://github.com/otya128/winevdm, but iirc it was a bit finicky).
Wine runs CoTW fine, seemingly.
Holy cow I did not expect that game to get a mention. I remember buying the sequel and waiting for what seems like an eternity for the floppy disk to arrive by mail. I am making this happen as soon as I can find it.
got the first game/shareware on some random "bajillion games collection!" cd when I was a kid. Even if it wasn't a full game, the amount of game the shareware episode had was staggering. Years later I came across the second part which was released as freeware. There was much rejoicement.
The game sure has it's BS moments - like nearly impossible dragons/whatever enemies which occasionally just murder you, but dangit I like it. :3
Just got to figure out a way to "double the pixel size" so that all those crusty graphics don't get too small on my screen, dosbox + win3.1 is nice but... could be better! :P