Whoa, this is pretty sick!!
Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
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#32Tried it with REVERSI.EXE from Windows 3.0 from https://winworldpc.com/download/c2bbc28f-177a-c2b2-5311-c3a4... DISK02.IMG (you have to first uncompress it, for example with 7zip). $ sha256sum REVERSI.EXE a9e319c8f479d1568beec03858fdbb27c71747b2bbed6cd7c9f5e2daa23b40e9 REVERSI.EXE Result: The game starts, it begins rendering the board, but then hangs.
Really doesn't surprise me, to be honest: > We strongly recommend contributing with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools.
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#33Impressive. Noting however that double-clicking is not working in Minesweeper. :)
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#34This is so cool & I'm really amazed by it but I couldn't help laugh at the readme > We strongly recommend contributing with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools. [...] Of course, coding by hand is also welcome. Funny time we live in lol
Ha — even the README itself was written by AI, including that very sentence. Funny times indeed.
How kind of them to let us humans participate!
Re: Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
#35Seems like the .scr files trigger CrowdStrike Falcon. Not clear where the executables run here come from...
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#36Seems to run a lot faster than the previous proof-of-concept I've found ( https://www.boxedwine.org/app ). Then again, that website runs an entire Linux VM to support Wine.
RetroTick's CPU emulation is actually slower than JIT-based emulators. It feels fast because the Win32 API calls are native JavaScript, not emulated system calls.
Making this a partial WINE-in-a browser, quite impressive. How much of this was AI?
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#37I wonder if this is the future of "I need to run my legacy Windows enterprise app on modern hardware"?
I suppose we're also not limited to WinNT look and feel, and can render dialogs, buttons, windows with any CSS framework?
Although, as the cost of building software is tumbling down, it will make more sense to re-build from scratch, targeting whatever runtime or platform you need.
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#38Winamp 2.x would be great to add if allowed!
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#39they even have SSMAZE.SCR, that 2.5D rendering screensaver! :D