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so you have dumped windows but you miss playing your childhood games, here comes wineHQ.

after installing winehq it should run normally but without multiplayer, enabling it is simple though

-download this archive : http://www.thehandofagony.com/alex/dll/dplaydlls-win98se.tar.bz2

-place its contents in your wine system32 directory or syswow64 in case of 64 wine installation

-configure wine > libraries > add overrides for dplayx, dpnet, dpnhpast and dpwsockx (native, built-in)

thats it

another way is :

-$sudo apt-get install winetricks

-$winetricks directplay

find more details here

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1251