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retrowin32, a win32 emulator

Thom Holwerda 2022-10-16 Windows No Comments

My first post-Figma hobby project is a win32 emulator I’ve called retrowin32. It is now barely capable of executing a few unmodified Windows exe files in a browser (see the site for some links).

A fun project.

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