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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 programs
  • Works on Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Web
  • Can run multiple versions of Wine, from 3.1 to 10.0
  • Apps and games using OpenGL, Direct3D and Vulkan are supported

TODOs

  • Emscripten/Web Boxedwine is still slow, need to implement a JIT. Multi-threaded build also studders with sound.
  • Mac OpenGL does not work with frame buffers
  • Games after the year 2010 have limitted success at running
  • Newer versions of .NET don't work
  • Joystick support

Platforms being tested

  • Emscripten (WASM)
  • Linux 64-bit x86/Arm64
  • MacOSX (ARM)
  • Windows 32-bit
  • Windows 64-bit x86/Arm64

Performance Test

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Cinebench 11.5 (Multi Core)

  • 6.41 Windows 11 i7-14700 x64 Boxedwine
  • 3.31 Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 1.41 Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 1.16 Windows 11 i7-14700 x86 Boxedwine

Cinebench 11.5 (Single Core)

  • 0.48 Windows 11 i7-14700 x64 Boxedwine
  • 0.59 Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 0.26 Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 0.08 Windows 11 i7-14700 x86 Boxedwine

Quake 2 +timedemo 1 +map demo1.dm2

  • 76.7 fps Windows 11 i7-14700 x64 Boxedwine
  • 58.4 fps Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 44.0 fps Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64 Boxedwine
  • 29.5 fps Windows 11 i7-14700 x86 Boxedwine

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Emulator that can run 32-bit Windows programs/games on multiple platforms via Wine

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