fox-toolkit vs v86

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fox-toolkit		v86
	Project
4	Mentions	153
7	Stars	19,159
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.1
almost 7 years ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
C++	Language	Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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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.

fox-toolkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of fox-toolkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

September 10 – FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.84
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

You can get this today again using the FOX toolkit (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/). This is probably my favorite lightweight toolkit. Patches gladly welcomed for a11y and Wayland.
GUI for software, not games, but lighter than Qt ?
19 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Apr 2022

FOX Toolkit
Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2021

One brave GUI toolkit continues to use the Windows 95 look. Personally I really like that look (or design language, as we're apparently meant to say these days). Clean, high-contrast, and it's clear which widgets are clickable. It has the added bonus that its drawing operations can easily be hard-coded for excellent performance.
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/

v86

Posts with mentions or reviews of v86. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-26.

Run Windows on the browser with WASM power
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024
WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024

> As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator"
I looked into this and... holy crap! We are there. Not for modern programs quite yet, sure, but this is amazing. You can use Windows 2000 from your browser.
https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000
Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024

I think you are looking for Shadow.
https://shadow.goose.icu
Or just the whole kitchen sink. Why not?
http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024

Also: https://github.com/copy/v86 - more productized browser x86 runtime, used by eg https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm
Show HN: SQL Polyglot
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023

Wonder if you could put all those databases in a Linux image and boot it using v86 [0], eliminating the need for a server.
[0] https://github.com/copy/v86
Hot Dog Linux
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023

Trying it out in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios , it's also clearly a love letter to Windows 95 in particular. That could be an unstated goal here, create a very particular PC experience under very particular constraints. I don't know anything about the creator but it's very possible that this kind of work was actually their career in the 90s.
It's incredible how much work was done. Maybe this should be an internet curiosity like how TempleOS has become, though Terry's personality was a unique factor.
VMware is now part of Broadcom
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2023

hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Isn't vbox open source, or even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ would do most virtualization trick now days?
Running Windows 98 on the Browser
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2023

Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:
https://copy.sh/v86/
My highlights:
- First version of Windows (1.01)
- SerenityOS <3
- and even ReactOS

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fox-toolkit and v86 you can also consider the following projects:

FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

Chicago95 - A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

webvm - Virtual Machine for the Web

nana - a modern C++ GUI library

yoroi-frontend - Yoroi Wallet - Cardano ADA Wallet - Your gateway to the financial world (extension frontend)

GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

gtkmm - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm

uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin