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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 3
by 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 agoBut you can run wine under qemu.
- Koshkin 4y ago1) 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 agoTheoretically, it should be possible to add an x86 emulator to wine, and compile to WASM to have everything running in the browser.
- badsectoracula 4y agoYou 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