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by robinsonb5 493 days ago
Funny you should say that.

I have a legally-purchased copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein here, both the Windows version and the official Linux port.

One of them works on modern Linux (with the help of Wine), one of them doesn't.

I wrote some specialist software for Linux round about 2005 to cover a then-business need, and ported it to Windows (using libgtk's Windows port distributed with GIMP at the time.) The windows port still works. Attemping to build the Linux version now would be a huge ordeal.