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Windows 3 emulator in development

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These are great news!
I was thinking some time ago why there is no such emulator yet, but in practice I never did search for it.
There are Windows 3.x game packs on internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/630-windows-3x-games
https://archive.org/details/530-more-windows-3x-games
I hope that Wine will work on Windows someday, so we will be able to even play old not compatible 32-bit games on newer Windows (yes I know compatibility mode and other tricks but they are not working with any game):
https://www.winehq.org/
http://www.kegel.com/wine/wow.html
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I haven't heard about Windows 3, there is a emulator that's in development, that's is great to hear, i hope they had games for windows 3!!! :D
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Win3mu turned open-source, since dev has no time to work with it, he put the source code public for the community to improve! Needs to be compiled first, but good news either way :mrgreen:
https://www.toptensoftware.com/win3mu/
EDIT: Someone did it and shared, yippie :wave:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comm ... nt/e6kflp8
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annoyment wrote:Win3mu turned open-source, since dev has no time to work with it, he put the source code public for the community to improve! Needs to be compiled first, but good news either way :mrgreen:
https://www.toptensoftware.com/win3mu/
EDIT: Someone did it and shared, yippie :wave:
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comm ... nt/e6kflp8
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cool, this can be handy to have, thanks for posting :thanks: :cool:
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Thanks for sharing valuable information.
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I'll just post this here, since this is what I'm using:

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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Re: Windows 3 emulator in development

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Seems to be a partial Wine fork that is bound to overtake Win3mu's progress - :thanks: a ton :mrgreen:
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