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

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

Documentation

• Upcoming Features
• Troubleshooting Games/Apps
• Developer Debugging
• How to Build Boxedwine
• How To Build OSMesa on MacOSX
• CPU Emulation