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).
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Emscripten (WASM)
- Linux 64-bit x86/Arm64
- MacOSX (ARM)
- Windows 32-bit
- Windows 64-bit x86/Arm64
- 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
- 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
- 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