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| Boxedwine | js-dos | |
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| 10 | 17 | |
| 748 | 969 | |
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| 8.0 | 8.1 | |
| about 1 month ago | 3 days ago | |
| C | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Boxedwine
Posts with mentions or reviews of Boxedwine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.
- Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
- How Wine Works 101
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WebAssembly in my Browser Desktop Environment
WINE (16/32-bit) via Boxedwine
- Might Makes Google Chrome Faster
- Bring Wine to Xbox Dev Mode
- Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser
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I build an online emulation platform with cloud saving and cross-device support. Would love some feedback.
This seems like the best idea look up www.boxedwine.org and if you want a port of it to Xbox dev mode please comment on this https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine/issues/5 saying I would like a port for Xbox too please or by simply liking the post to show interest! If you can code or think you can help the devs in any way let them know
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Boxedwine is an emulator that can run windows applications in the browser
Its not actually emulating a real linux kernel. It implements its own "kernel": https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine/tree/master/source/kern...
js-dos
Posts with mentions or reviews of js-dos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-15.
- Web-Based Turbo Pascal Compiler
- You can now play DOOM and other retro games in Obsidian by downloading the ObsiDOOM plugin!
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Oregon Trail
Funny timing. I actually just built an in-house server this past Friday to host the original Oregon Trail using js-dos because I don't like poking holes in the content filter for sites like archive.org. I didn't worry too much about copyright, as I assumed it was abandonware at this point.
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Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma
Thanks glad you liked it! It's actually not a port but is running on DOS via https://js-dos.com/, same as Doom and Jazz Jackrabbit. I actually have my 8 favorite Shareware games on my website which can all be played.
https://dustinbrett.com/?app=FileExplorer&url=/Users/Public/...
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Run old software in browser?
Maybe something like https://js-dos.com/ for dos and https://www.emulatorjs.com/ for old game consoles?
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WebAssembly in my Browser Desktop Environment
DOS Emulation via js-dos
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5 Insane Features in my OS in the Browser!!! 🤯
Adding emulators is something I always wanted to do and I have plans to add more in 2022. For 2021 I was able to add Virtual x86 (.img/.iso), BoxedWine (.exe/.zip), JS-DOS (.exe/.zip) & Ruffle (.swf/.spl). Most of these emulators utilize WebAssembly to run non-JS code.
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After 1 YEAR of hard work my NEW Ultimate Web Desktop Environment is ready for launch!!!!!
It can indeed run some real windows programs via BoxedWine. I've set it up so you can double click an .exe and it will automatically try and run it, although typically if it needs support dll's then they are all in a zip. For example the zip file for Notepad++ 32-bit x86 can directly run in BoxedWine. You just drag the zip file on, right click and select run in BoxedWine. It can also run DOS apps/games via JS-DOS and has similar mappings for exe/zip. Both emulators make use of WASM as do several other apps, such as the x86 emulator shown in the demo video. My main "OS" is only JS/HTML/CSS written in TypeScript with React/Styled Components.
- JavaScript-DOS: The best API for running DOS programs in browser
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Boxedwine and js-dos you can also consider the following projects:
v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
dos-game - A Dockerfile for running Docker based DosBox games streamed to a browser client.
mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
eruda - Console for mobile browsers
wapm-cli - 📦 WebAssembly Package Manager (CLI)
daedalOS - Desktop environment in the browser
chromium-crosswalk
Monaco Editor - A browser based code editor
wasmer-js - Monorepo for Javascript WebAssembly packages by Wasmer
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