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…
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…
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…
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
It can run on other Linux platforms beside x86. It runs on a Rasberry Pi https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=932411#p932411
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
It can run on other Linux platforms beside x86. It runs on a Rasberry Pi https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=932411#p932411
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…