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RetroTick parses PE/NE/MZ binaries, emulates an x86 CPU, and stubs enough Win32/Win16/DOS APIs to run classics like FreeCell, Minesweeper, Solitaire and QBasic, entirely in the browser. Built with Preact + Vite + TypeScript.

Demo: https://retrotick.com

GitHub: https://github.com/lqs/retrotick

Comments

wertyu123•1h ago

Nice

chromehearts•1h ago

This is so cool & I'm really amazed by it but I couldn't help laugh at the readme

> We strongly recommend contributing with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools. [...] Of course, coding by hand is also welcome.

Funny time we live in lol

b3lvedere•1h ago

Aww. The FreeCell cheats don't work, except for -1 and -2 :)

LinusU•57m ago

This is super cool!

Checkout retrowin32 for something similar but written in Rust and not specifically targeting the web: https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32

Dwedit•52m ago

Not enough Shell32 to run Winfile or Notepad.

Also the command prompt won't list directories for some reason.

jeroenhd•47m ago

Seems to run a lot faster than the previous proof-of-concept I've found (https://www.boxedwine.org/app). Then again, that website runs an entire Linux VM to support Wine.

TechSquidTV•34m ago

Please let me plan Sim Theme Park. I can't seem to run it on Crossover on my mac.

Tepix•33m ago

Tried it with REVERSI.EXE from Windows 3.0 from https://winworldpc.com/download/c2bbc28f-177a-c2b2-5311-c3a4... DISK02.IMG

(you have to first uncompress it, for example with 7zip).

    $ sha256sum REVERSI.EXE
    a9e319c8f479d1568beec03858fdbb27c71747b2bbed6cd7c9f5e2daa23b40e9  REVERSI.EXE

Result:

The game starts, it begins rendering the board, but then hangs.

fao_•28m ago

Really doesn't surprise me, to be honest:

> We strongly recommend contributing with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools. [...] Of course, coding by hand is also welcome.

ftchd•11m ago

so which one, the coding by hand part?

haonnoah•5m ago

Pretty cool. The pipes program doesn't seem to have color. Thoughts on making programs launch from a URL parameter? IE Launching a screensaver or game?