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A project like this is vital for software preservation. The closest thing to it besides what the author listed in the article is Apple's Rosetta, but add that t

A project like this is vital for software preservation. The closest thing to it besides what the author listed in the article is Apple's Rosetta, but add that to the list of similar but not quite exact comparisons noted by the author and frankly do any of us really believe Apple will keep Rosetta around forever? We saw how that went last time. We really need open source, community-maintained versions of things like Rosetta so that old apps written for different architectures or even different operating systems can continue to run on modern operating systems. I applaud the author. We need more people like that interested in this stuff.

gpderetta 4y ago
wine?
- p2detar 4y ago
  As the Retrowin32 author states: > There are other projects to run old Windows programs. WoW64 is the name of the system within 64-bit Windows that makes old 32-bit Windows programs run. Wine shims the Windows API onto your host system — see the great How Wine works for a deep dive on what that means. And system emulator projects like qemu emulate a full x86 machine such that you can install Windows onto them. But Wow64 requires running 64-bit Windows, Wine requires x86 hardware, and qemu requires installing the full Windows OS into the emulator to run a Windows program.
  - gpderetta 4y ago
    But you can run wine under qemu.
    - Koshkin 4y ago
      1) wine is not an OS (or a VM), so you can’t “run wine under qemu” (not directly) 2) you do not need qemu (or any other emulation layer) to run wine
  - amadvance 4y ago
    Theoretically, it should be possible to add an x86 emulator to wine, and compile to WASM to have everything running in the browser.
  - badsectoracula 4y ago
    You can use a separate x86 emulator like box86 for Wine. For example here is a video of using box86 on a Raspberry Pi 4 to run Windows games with Steam and Proton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRZGf7Jqxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRZGf7Jqxg

gpderetta 4y ago

wine?

p2detar 4y ago
As the Retrowin32 author states: > There are other projects to run old Windows programs. WoW64 is the name of the system within 64-bit Windows that makes old 32-bit Windows programs run. Wine shims the Windows API onto your host system — see the great How Wine works for a deep dive on what that means. And system emulator projects like qemu emulate a full x86 machine such that you can install Windows onto them. But Wow64 requires running 64-bit Windows, Wine requires x86 hardware, and qemu requires installing the full Windows OS into the emulator to run a Windows program.
- gpderetta 4y ago
  But you can run wine under qemu.
  - Koshkin 4y ago
    1) wine is not an OS (or a VM), so you can’t “run wine under qemu” (not directly) 2) you do not need qemu (or any other emulation layer) to run wine
- amadvance 4y ago
  Theoretically, it should be possible to add an x86 emulator to wine, and compile to WASM to have everything running in the browser.
- badsectoracula 4y ago
  You can use a separate x86 emulator like box86 for Wine. For example here is a video of using box86 on a Raspberry Pi 4 to run Windows games with Steam and Proton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRZGf7Jqxg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRZGf7Jqxg