Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20161116194210/@comment-1496755-20170107212642

Well, you don't have to ask their approval. Just grab what is rightfully yours!

True - from what I 've heard and read, Win 8 was mostly oriented towards mobile devices - tablets, phones, the like. Thus it can't fulfill a PC's full potential if installed on one. And like you said - Direct3D is messed up, and DirectDraw was pretty much thrown out of the window, which is bad news for retro enthusiasts.

So far I have been able to get several problematic old games running - even the DirectDraw ones. Jedi Knight was particularly slippery because the game engine itself runs on D3D, but the menus and some other features are DDraw. The main problem is the resolution - several of these old games work best in 640x400, but my monitor doesn't support that, so I have to use 640x480, which looks kind of lumpy. The aspect correction feature helps a lot, yet it still looks sloppy.

I'll keep an eye out for you... just don't forget to eject that Quake CD this time :D