From: "Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: DirectX under DOS?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:51:43 -0000
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> Run DirectX games under DOS using a translator/emulator
> similar to Bleem.  Does anyone think this idea is possible?

Certainly possible, it's just finding someone who can be bothered to do it.

Running a DirectX game requires emulating most of the windows Kernel
functions as well as DirectX functions. I did once start on a program to run
Win32 console applications under DOS, but gave up with DirectX emulation
because of the wierd API (it's all based on classes and member functions).
Had it been a flat API, I might have succeeded.