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kev_emu

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    Comment #36299491

    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/B…

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    Comment #36200647

    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-app…

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    Comment #34646294

    That already exists. boxedwine.org

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    Comment #33683396

    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 behavi…

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    Comment #28566854

    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 co…

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    Comment #26924270

    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 …

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    Comment #26924141

    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 appl…

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    Comment #26923082

    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, n…