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 applications
• Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi and Web
• Can run multiple version of Wine, from 1.8 to 5.0
• Supports OpenGL and DirectX games.

Needs Work

• Networking does not work well
• Mac OpenGL does not work with frame buffers
• ARMv8 CPU core for Mac M1 and Raspberry Pi still has bugs
• Games after the year 2000 have limitted success at running

Platforms that are tested

• Emscripten (WASM)
• Linux 64-bit
• Mac (Arm)
• Mac (Intel)
• Raspberry Pi 4 32-bit
• Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• Windows 64-bit

Performance Test using MDK Perf with GDI backend on Wine

Emscripten on Intel i7-6700K on Windows 10

• 27 Firefox 81
• 29 Chrome Version 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Mac Mini M1

• 870 ARMv8 CPU Core
• 150 x64 CPU Core with Rosetta

iMac 2017 3.4GHz i5

• 245 x64 CPU Core

Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

• 133 ARMv8 CPU Core

Raspberry Pi 4 32-bit

• 14 Normal CPU Core + JIT

Windows 10 on Intel i7-6700K

• 48 Normal CPU Core
• 64 Normal CPU Core + JIT
• 985 x64 CPU Core

Repo is at: https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine