The specs might be compatible but the programs aren't, exactly because of the assumptions (or plain old buggy code) you mention. So you need workarounds. I run

The specs might be compatible but the programs aren't, exactly because of the assumptions (or plain old buggy code) you mention. So you need workarounds. I run a lot of older software, especially (though not only) games and i often have to do such workarounds like wrapper or replacement libs. I've also tried running older stuff on Linux (e.g. i have a collection of Linux game demos from the late 90s to early 2000s) and while most stuff run, you do need to find and install a bunch of missing libraries and wrappers (e.g. for OSS support).