Jari Komppa's DirectDraw library

Jari Komppa hacked together a replacement for Microsoft's deprecated DirectDraw library in order to play old Win9x games on Windows 7. And the particular game is Wing Commander. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤. That is already awesome, but while he was at it he added some graphics hacks. I particularly like how he uses sampling to both increase the screen size and smooth out the pixelated edges of the story-mode animations. Via Slashdot.