Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64

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  • UTM

    Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

  • Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow.

    There seem to be ways to use Rosetta2 inside a VM [0] to then translate binaries but I found no official support or documentation (using UTM+QEMU that was), this would be such a cool feature, at least there are discussions about it [1,2]

    - [0] https://mybyways.com/blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-wi...

    - [1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/4939

    - [2] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5460

  • Chicago95

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

  • Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

    It works really well.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • v86

    x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

  • You can try it here (somewhat slow, but works as a demo): https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=serenity

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