Alright. Installed Wonderland Adventures in my VMWare machine, installed the VMWare Tools thing and DirectX 9, and same result. The message said something like this:
Wonderland Adventures cannot run because you have outdated 3D graphics drivers.
If this is the first time you have run Wonderland Adventures, update your drivers.
If Wonderland Adventures was working previously, run a virus scan, and try again.
Press any key to close.
I open Windows Update, and it opens an IE page which IE can't open. I open it in Firefox to find that support for Windows XP ended in 2014. *big sigh*
Of course I can run some 3rd party driver software, except it's probably malware.
Am I cursed? Should I just stick to Wine until I have to play a dark level, which I can play in Windows 10 without too much pain?
Oh yeah, don't tell me to install DirectX 7. It's not compatible with XP.