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windows emulator

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2023-08-18 · latest 2026-04-21

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  1. …I wrapped my head around it it wasn't so bad, check out the 'trans64' and 'trans32' snippets in https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32/blob/ffd8665795ae6c6bdd7... for I believe all of it. One reframing that helped me (after a few false…
    comment by evmar · 2026-04-21 · in Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator
  2. See also the authors previous project retrowin32 https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32
    comment by pema99 · 2026-04-21 · in Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator
  3. Just a couple of hours ago I was thinking about this project from some time ago doing the same thing: https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32 I wondered how much of this could be done with an LLM agent, and here we have the answer
  4. …retrowin32 for something similar but written in Rust and not specifically targeting the web: https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32
  5. …an even more sparse path/fileapi.h implementation [2] than WINE and ReactOS. Written in Rust. [2] https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32/blob/main/win32/dll/kern...
    comment by cachius · 2026-01-23 · in 30 Years of ReactOS
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    Retrowin32: Windows Emulator for the Web
    story by Philpax · 2024-10-10 · 0 comments
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    Retrowin32 – A Windows Emulator for the Web
    story by anotherhue · 2024-10-10 · 0 comments
  8. Incredible work. May I also interest you in retrowin32 https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32/blob/main/README.md Which is an attempt to collapse the stack so that fewer translation and virtualisation stages are needed.
    comment by anotherhue · 2024-10-10 · in AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
  9. …registers as outputs, which the code doesn't address. Maybe they just don't occur in practice? [1] https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32
    comment by evmar · 2024-04-09 · in MIPS stacktrace: an unexpected journey
  10. My project https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32 includes a (Windows-agnostic) pure Rust instruction level emulator for x86, and if anyone is interested on hacking on one I'd love the help!
    comment by evmar · 2023-09-24 · in My Pure Rust Wishlist
  11. Working on https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32 , I disassembled one old demo that wouldn't run on my native Windows machine -- turns out it was requesting 320x200 fullscreen resolution and aborting if it couldn't get it. (Not sure why the…