Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux

Apps similar to ProtonPlus include Wine, which is free and open source. Other options are WinBoat, Proton, ReactOS and PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac. Compatibility Layer Tools like ProtonPlus are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Chrome OS.

Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatiblity with older games, especially on Windows 8 and newer that don't support 16 bit screen modes. Another possible use is to emulate unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX...

Turbo.net for Mac runs PC apps on your Mac without having to install a Virtual Machine.




This project provides DLL wrappers for the DirectX 1-9 graphics components. Its purpose is to disable the use of the Direct3D 9 user-mode display driver provided by GPU vendors. This forces the runtimes to use D3D9On12 instead.
Native Linux windows for every Windows app — real icons, real WM_CLASS, pin-to-taskbar. FreeRDP RemoteApp + dockur/windows. Zero config.

DDrawCompat is a DLL wrapper aimed at fixing compatibility and performance issues for games based on DirectDraw and Direct3D 1-7. Partially supports GDI as well. There is no API conversion involved, most of the rendering is still done by the native DirectDraw/Direct3D 1-7 and...
Using bare Wine and DOSBox usually gives problems when launching a mixture of Windows and MS-DOS applications.