I have been messing with my raspberry pi 400 and stumbled across box86. This program converts x86 calls to arm. And it works pretty well, i got the orginal pvz (disk verison) running through wine and box 86! The game is slow on cutscenes but gameplay is suprisingly playable and was more playable then my first pc lmao!
Its crazy that a fanless 15watt arm chip can run old games this well! Compared to a pentium 4 thats is taking off.
It is really awesome. Note however that there are some gaps, like if you want accurate floating point or full syscall coverage. I’ve hit issues in some scientific applications.