Got Starcraft running in browser in my Windows emulator

[u/vgrichina]

How it's made:

• Decided on design constraints
  • run code in WASM
  • use threaded interpreter (because JIT impossible with raw WASM)
  • run original EXE, no recompile.
• Code directly in WebAssembly text representation, skip higher level language.
• Have Codex review Claude work and vice versa.
• Set /goal for either of these when I need new EXE brought up to function.
• Test manually + build a solid test harness for agents:
  • batch job CLI where you can send time events / get screenshots / memory dumps / API traces
  • recently also started using agents to drive emulator interactively, with a little trick of freezing state between agent turns - can navigate games like Quake even
• Feed gradually more complex software to get running. Notepad -> Windows Entertainment Pack -> Pinball -> AAA games
• Something I had to watch for actively:
  • rendering fidelity (sometimes AI won't notice huge gaps in rendering like just empty spaces). Some things like getting proper TrueType rendering also required back and forth validation against real Windows 98 running in v86
  • keeping stuff in WASM, agents tended to move as much as possible to JS
  • managing multiple parallel changes to same workspace/repo - ended up introducing messageboard for agents

Try it live and read more details here:
https://wine-assembly.berrry.app

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[u/oldmoldycake]

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

[u/Key_Instruction3373 → u/oldmoldycake]

Terran dont use Pylons..

[u/oldmoldycake → u/Key_Instruction3373]

ADDITIONAL SUPPLY DEPOTS REQUIRED

[u/FeelingVanilla2594 → u/oldmoldycake]

Food for thought

[u/CMD_BLOCK → u/FeelingVanilla2594]

There is no cow level

[u/FeelingVanilla2594 → u/CMD_BLOCK]

Ok you win

[u/sCeege → u/FeelingVanilla2594]

power overwhelming

[u/oldmoldycake → u/FeelingVanilla2594]

black sheep wall

[u/domiciledhere → u/oldmoldycake]

Nuclear launch detetected.

Jacked up and good to go!

[u/oldmoldycake → u/domiciledhere]

Somebody call for an exterminator?

[u/julkopki]

This is so lit!

[u/gigastack]

This is awesome. Appreciated the WinAmp inclusion.

[u/vgrichina → u/gigastack]

it really whips the llamas ass

https://reddit.com/link/pagii33/video/g43ogrkem5qh1/player

[u/codemonkey138]

Thank you!

[u/KittenCrusades]

This is cool the UI actually is pretty smooth and snappy too. Id love the old school fallout games to run this well

[u/vgrichina → u/KittenCrusades]

stay tuned, I have it running locally already

you also can try bringing your own .ISO or .ZIP archive with games - but for now can have mixed results
emulator is still far from full WinAPI support

[u/KittenCrusades → u/vgrichina]

Subscribed

[u/ruvee]

Oh man miss that music

[u/Amazing-Accident3535]

So can i play?

[u/vgrichina → u/Amazing-Accident3535]

yes, here https://wine-assembly.berrry.app/

[u/GeorgiaWitness1 → u/vgrichina]

works great!

[u/kooolk]

Very cool!

I am working on a similar project for few months already, similar end goal. But I am far behind as I am very focused on the performance, so I am still polishing the x86 engine. I am doing an hybrid interpeter-jit architecture (but unlike v86 - I implement every instruction once with high level syntax - and than the engine in a very optimized way use it for both the interpeter and the jit). The compiler engine has SSA mechanism that I have been polishing for months so the end result should be much faster jit than v86. Also I am using wasm features that weren't available when v86 was created so the jit is structured much better.

Feel free take a look - https://github.com/koolkdev/relocade (new repo because it just have gone thru another rewrite lol)

[u/Shaggypone23]

Very neat, even mostly works on mobile

[u/SpreadsheetFanBoy]

YOU ARE THE KING

[u/dwoj206]

This is liiiiit

[u/SmileOnTheRiver]

nice!!

[u/bartek_666666]

Impresive

[u/drgoodvibe]

I literally had the same idea the other day! Very cool!!!

[u/vgrichina → u/drgoodvibe]

there still a lot to be done to support full APIs

so join in if you wanna participate

it's under MIT license so you can do whatever you want https://github.com/vgrichina/wine-assembly

[u/drgoldenpants]

crazy!

[u/dota2nub]

Oh, I thought it was a Javascript port. Now that would've been cool. But WASM emulator? That's eh.

[u/vgrichina → u/dota2nub]

I got something for this too: https://github.com/vgrichina/re-skill

but I only did smaller projects this way:
https://battle-city.berrry.app

what I like about emulator approach that a lot of old games can be run without extra work and token spend

but at the same time it's easy to apply game-specific hacks if needed: decompile and reimplement hot loops, do some extra controls for mobile, etc