danoon2/Boxedwine
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Emulator that can run 32-bit Windows programs/games on multiple platforms via Wine
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2021-04-23 · latest 2026-05-27
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An interesting learning project, but not actually usable. https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine looks interesting in this space, but unfortunately it can't really run anything remotely modern in practice (though if you're looking at 20th…
comment by gigel82 · 2026-05-27 · in Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM -
…to run an unmodified 32-bit version of Wine. Runs on Windows, Mac, linux and in a web browser. - https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine - https://www.boxedwine.org/
comment by kev_emu · 2023-06-12 · in Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP? -
You can try boxedwine too https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine
comment by Cloudef · 2022-10-13 · in How Wine works 101 -
With BoxedWine[1] this might be a the future of Windows in the Cloud! /s 1. https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine
comment by SomaticPirate · 2021-04-27 · in Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster -
Its not actually emulating a real linux kernel. It implements its own "kernel" and elf loader: https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine/tree/master/source/kern... so this basically is light WSL w/ CPU emulation to run wine. The project running…
comment by Cloudef · 2021-04-24 · in Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser