danoon

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1. 1.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   Yeah, I implement a good amount of the kernel syscalls that Wine needs. It was easier for me to implement the 200-300 Kernel calls, like open file, etc, than implement the entire Windows API, which is why I used Wine for this project.
2. 2.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   Just like Wine, Boxedwine won't work with games that have CD checks. If it is just trying to find the CD in order to play a video off of it or grab a large file it didn't install, that might work, but only if the code isn't
3. 3.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   ReactOS is a full OS, so it needs to run in a VM which requires disk images. Boxedwine emulates everything it needs and can use the users file system directly. So you can just drag a setup or game that doesn't require installation ri
4. 4.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   Boxedwine was used to bring an old game, The Voodoo Kid, that has some compatibility issues with modern Windows to Gog.com https://www.gog.com/game/voodoo_kid
5. 5.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   It can run on other Linux platforms beside x86. It runs on a Rasberry Pi https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=932411#p932411
6. 6.▲
   by danoon 5y ago

   Yes, the goal of Boxedwine is to run old Windows programs in a platform independent way without a VM or disk images. So basically it is Dosbox but for Windows. At first I started out writing my own Win32 API implementation, and it worked