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kev_emu
3y ago
You could try BoxedWine. It is enough of a PC emulator to run an unmodified 32-bit version of Wine. Runs on Windows, Mac, linux and in a web browser. - https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine - https://www.boxe
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kev_emu
3y ago
Another twist on self hosted web apps is peergos. Uses a capability based system for access and sharing. End-to-end encrypted and P2P. App Examples - github.com/peergos/example-apps API Docs - book.peergos.org/features/a
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kev_emu
4y ago
That already exists. boxedwine.org
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kev_emu
4y ago
Another example is the sandbox we have built for Peergos[1] for user apps Combination of double iframe, service worker and writable streams. Not without issue due to browser behaviour. Chrome (...annoyances), Firefox (...feature not necessa
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Peergos secure P2P network leaves beta
(twitter.com)
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kev_emu
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kev_emu
5y ago
I would be interested in your thoughts on using PochiVM as a means to add a dynamic re-compiling core for emulators. The emulator would identify hot code blocks, generate C like constructs (or ideally the AST) and use the 'Copy-and-Pa
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kev_emu
5y ago
The WASM build uses the 'normal' CPU core. In this core the CPU emulator is a collection of indirect calls that performs poorly in WASM due the runtime checks to verify the number of parameters and their types. For other builds th
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kev_emu
5y ago
BoxedWine does OpenGL passthrough on platforms where available. This does not extend to the WASM/WebGL, but I really tried! I was able to get it working for some simple OpenGL applications with help from gl4es, but was unable to make i
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kev_emu
5y ago
I worked on the emscripten/wasm build of boxedwine. I can answer some questions. The project has been around in some form for 9 years. It was originally in java, then straight c, now c++. Main author previously worked on jdosbox. I p