Interesting, maybe I'll be able to play Space Empires 5 again ?!

Any pointers towards how to use this wrapper ?

Thanks a lot, but d3d8 and d3d9 seemingly have no effect, while ddraw fails with "The procedure entry point DDKMTOpenAdapterFromLuid could not be located in the dynamic link library gdi32.dll.", then game's mandatory launcher does open, but then an access violation when trying to launch the game itself from it...

You can try boxedwine too https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine

"Games after the year 2000 have limitted success at running", but still thanks, I'll take any potential solution at this point, I'll check this out !