ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware
phoronix.comsomething I wondered for a while
do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?
Yes
While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...
I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.
Indeed. ReactOS is to the full Windows stack what Wine is to the userland Windows API.