One thing I remember that was very different back then was that you had to crack almost every game…about no copy protection worked in wine. And that you had to deal more often with the wine config. Divine Divinity worked perfectly once you changed the backbuffer I think…but for finding that out you spend much more time on appdb and reading comments/suggestions ;)
In my feeling wine was actually not bad at all around 0.9, it worked for a surprising large amount of programs back then. It was later when directx 10 and above became available that wine fell back and only caught up for games just recently again. But that can be a very biased view as I already bought the few games I played back then with wine in mind and after checking for compatibility.
One thing I remember that was very different back then was that you had to crack almost every game…about no copy protection worked in wine. And that you had to deal more often with the wine config. Divine Divinity worked perfectly once you changed the backbuffer I think…but for finding that out you spend much more time on appdb and reading comments/suggestions ;)
In my feeling wine was actually not bad at all around 0.9, it worked for a surprising large amount of programs back then. It was later when directx 10 and above became available that wine fell back and only caught up for games just recently again. But that can be a very biased view as I already bought the few games I played back then with wine in mind and after checking for compatibility.
For Dungeon Siege, you could mount the ISO and point a wine drive to that. Cracks helped if you did not want to go through that.