Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)

• OpenRA

  256 14,143 9.6 C#

  Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

  

Most that still play the old C&C games do it trough openra or with the newly done ultimate collection directly from EA.

https://www.openra.net/

• webamp

  116 9,579 7.8 TypeScript

  Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser

Is there still as yet no Linux-native reimplementation of Winamp? (in the sense that it's a lightweight program that 1. plays music and 2. loads Winamp skins.)

That's doubly-surprising, given that there's already a web reimplementation of Winamp (https://webamp.org/) that does those things. (And it's "lightweight" in terms of not pulling in any JS frameworks; but not especially "lightweight" in terms of you needing a full web browser to run it.)

• WorkOS

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• reactos

  150 14,040 9.9 C

  A free Windows-compatible Operating System

  

I think it would be interesting to package up ReactOS [1], which shares a lot of code with Wine, as a VM that could be shipped with an application along with something like QEMU. If I'm not mistaken, QEMU supports virtualization through the Windows Hypervisor Platform and macOS's Hypervisor.framework. Could be a good way for GOG to sell old Windows games.

[1]: https://reactos.org/

• winevdm

  116 2,442 7.9 C

  16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

Not sure if this would help in this exact case, but I've used OTVDM to run some old games successfully.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

• winforms

  25 4,212 9.3 C#

  Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

  

There's been a lot of work happening to make WinForms trimmable. I think it will land in the upcoming .NET release (7) or the next one, I'm looking forward to being able to ship small WinForms apps with zero dependencies. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/4649

• anbox

  97 8,770 0.0 C++

  Discontinued Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system

  

• old-new-win32api

  34 237 4.7

  Organized bookmarks to Win32API posts of Raymond Chen's blog "The Old New Thing".

It was an autorun program which would offer a list of what's on the CD along with some images whenever one of the items was selected.

I've found a good reference here: https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api

The message loop (using MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx) was somewhere around 20 LOC, to enable all the things that the application had to do (including correct handling of dialogs). I don't count that as getting out of my way.

• InfluxDB

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