Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20171111143841/@comment-1496755-20180315224107

Testing on old laptop is complete... I got exactly the same result as with the Win2000 VM - QUMA won't even start. No error messages, nothing happens at all. Not very surprising, since 2000 and XP are close relatives. Apparently, QUMA has be run on a member of the 9X series, and on a real PC. I guess this thing will forever remain beyond our reach... unless you can find someone with a very old Win 95/98 PC to test it.

Diablo should definitely be a DirectDraw application - from time it was still a separate entity. According to Wikipedia: "DirectDraw has been deprecated since version 7. As of DirectX version 8.0, DirectDraw was merged into a new package called DirectX Graphics, which extended Direct3D with a few DirectDraw API additions." So, in the older versions of DirectX, DDraw and D3D were separate things. But even after the merge, I think DDraw applications should run fine in a VM because it doesn't require the exclusive GPU access that D3D needs. I'll run a few tests when I get the chance...

That was a cunning word play, since Solitaire is also known as "Patience" :P