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| Boxedwine | qemu-3dfx | |
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| 10 | 18 | |
| 748 | 344 | |
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| 8.0 | 8.4 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| 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...
qemu-3dfx
Posts with mentions or reviews of qemu-3dfx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.
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SoftGPU: SW and HW accelerated driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
There is also https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx pass-through 3D acceleration for qemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34mSBxDm7s
- SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines
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Ask HN: Best way to play old games that require Windows 98/XP?
I've been porting this to Nixos all week. Handles glide emulation pretty well
https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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QEMU 8.0.0 released
As for 3D acceleration, I've seen this repository (no idea if it works) https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx, and I've also seen that QEMU added the "ati-vga" device, which supports the Rage 128 Pro and Radeon RV100, but those seem to be a bit WIP.
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Parallels vs Crossover on older games
And, here we also have the 3rd option which is less well-known than CrossOver and Parallel Desktop while targeting older Windows games with compatibility issues on modern Windows, QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx
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CrossOver support not responding, should I try getting a refund and purchase Parallels instead?
You can check out qemu-3dfx for Apple Silicon macOS. https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx/wiki/Apple-Silicon-macOS-Prerequisites
- Virtual graphic driver for Windows 98 on QEMU/KVM?
- Using qemu-3dfx for Win9x games
- Any chance of a good D3D9 Windows XP paravirtualized driver?
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How do you emulate old Win95 games with 3dfx? And how to set up quicklaunch for it on a frontend?
If you are a true gamer from the late 90' s though, you can and probably will run into an old game that doesn't work on modern windows. PCem is really the only good option IMO, but performance is very limited. Especially with glide and 3d acceleration, even the fastest CPUs aren't able to emulate much faster than a pentium II 200mhz at voodoo 2 at full speed (if you are emulating MMX on top of that forget it). Virtualization is possible but not likely to help as win95 virtualization is very basic and doesn't do much gaming things very well. With that said, there are some pretty crazy virtualization projects out there; here is one that requires you to compile everything from source yourself for basically no reason https://github.com/kjliew/qemu-3dfx (have fun).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Boxedwine and qemu-3dfx you can also consider the following projects:
v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
mgba - mGBA Game Boy Advance Emulator
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
wapm-cli - 📦 WebAssembly Package Manager (CLI)
dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine
chromium-crosswalk
glrage - OpenGL wrapper for the ATI 3D C Interface and DirectDraw 2
wasmer-js - Monorepo for Javascript WebAssembly packages by Wasmer
softgpu - SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
Tutanota makes encryption easy - Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.
vmwmouse - VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1