Doesn't it help that the EU is comprised of a number of member states with different laws and competing interests so that one country's darling is another country's nemesis? According to this article, there are lobbyists in the EU, so it is not clear to me how MEPs could not be "bought". Anyone from the EU know how lobbying in the EU differs from lobbying in the U.S.?

Umm, correct me if I'm wrong but X-wing vs. Tie Fighter was a 9x game (although my understanding is that Windows 95 was implemented with DOS system calls as a subset). Dosbox does implement a 386 emulator but not Windows 95/98 system calls to my knowledge including DirectX that later versions of XvT used. You may be interested in the wine page for XvT (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8156). P.S. You might need the D3D patch for XvT which also came with the Balance of Power campaign for Wine to work.