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TIL Windows XP had specific code just to maintain compatibility with Lego Island (forum.mattkc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ch00f@lemmy.world to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Just learned this yesterday while watching this post's author's youtube series where he's decompiling the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MToTEqoVv3I

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[–] hazelnot@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Does it? My understanding was that it would basically just map Windows calls to Linux calls.

That's what Wine does. Proton is built on top of Wine and has lots of patches to make various games work better (or at all)