danoon2/Boxedwine

danoon2/Boxedwine has 1,111 GitHub stars and 113 forks. GitHot measured 0 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-09 09:39 UTC. Last push 2026-11-02.

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

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What you can do

Runs 16/32-bit Windows programs
Works on Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and Web
Can run multiple versions of Wine, from 3.1 to 11.0
Apps and games using OpenGL, Direct3D and Vulkan are supported

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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 11.0
Apps and games using OpenGL, Direct3D and Vulkan are supported

New Version 26R1

50% Faster for all platforms except WASM. Uses 20% less memory for 64-bit builds.
Added Wine 11 suport
Added OpenGL on top of D3D12 for Windows ARM64 build
Improved audio for Web builds, still not perfect

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 with Wine 10

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Cinebench 11.5 (Multi Core)

10.02 Windows 11 i7-14700 x64
4.71 Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64
4.14 Windows 11 Snapdragon X - X126100 Arm64
3.90 Windows 11 i7-14700 x86
2.67 Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64

Cinebench 11.5 (Single Core)

1.01 Windows 11 i7-14700 x64 Boxedwine
0.84 Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64 Boxedwine
0.66 Windows 11 Snapdragon X - X126100 Arm64
0.50 Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64 Boxedwine
0.42 Windows 11 i7-14700 x86 Boxedwine

Quake 2 +timedemo 1 +map demo1.dm2

72.7 fps Windows 11 i7-14700 x64 Boxedwine
88.9 fps Mac OSX Mac Mini M4 Arm64 Boxedwine
65.7 fps Asahi Linux Mac Mini M1 Arm64 Boxedwine
57.4 fps Windows 11 i7-14700 x86 Boxedwine
57.3 Windows 11 Snapdragon X - X126100 Arm64