Boxedwine

Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications. It achieves this by running a 32-bit version of Wine, and emulating the Linux kernel and CPU. It is written in C++ with SDL and is supported on multiple platforms.

Boxedwine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

Features

Runs 16/32-bit Windows applications
Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Web
Can run multiple version of Wine, from 1.8 to 5.0
Supports OpenGL and DirectX games.

Needs Work

Networking does not work well
Mac OpenGL does not work with frame buffers
ARMv8 CPU core for Mac M1 and Raspberry Pi still has bugs
Games after the year 2000 have limitted success at running

Platforms that are tested

Emscripten (WASM)
Linux 64-bit
Mac (Arm)
Mac (Intel)
Raspberry Pi 4 32-bit
Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
Windows 32-bit
Windows 64-bit

Performance Test using MDK Perf with GDI backend on Wine

Emscripten on Intel i7-6700K on Windows 10

27 Firefox 81
29 Chrome Version 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Mac Mini M1

870 ARMv8 CPU Core
150 x64 CPU Core with Rosetta

iMac 2017 3.4GHz i5

245 x64 CPU Core

Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

133 ARMv8 CPU Core

Raspberry Pi 4 32-bit

14 Normal CPU Core + JIT

Windows 10 on Intel i7-6700K

48 Normal CPU Core
64 Normal CPU Core + JIT
985 x64 CPU Core

Repo is at: https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine

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