Building a Windows 3.1 emulator in C#
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Win3mu is a Windows 3 Emulator that makes it possible to run old Windows games on modern versions of Windows. You can read about the rationale for this project here. This post dives into the details of implementing the Windows API, starting with Window management. Where We're At In the
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This is part 2 of writing a debugger for Win3mu — a Windows 3 Emulator. If you’ve not done so already you might like to read part 1 and for more background there’s this series of articles about the emulator itself. User Interface The user interface for Win3mu’s
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It’s not every day you get to write a debugger! I just spent the last week or so working on the debugger for Win3mu (my Windows 3 emulator — see here) and thought it might be interesting to write up how it works. A Quick CPU Refresher The debugger I’
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This is Part 10 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you might like to read from the start. In a previous post about the Module Loader I gave an
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This is Part 9 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you might like to read from the start. This post describes Win3mu’s path mapper which provides a mapping
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This is Part 8 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you might like to read from the start. This post covers module loading — the process of loading .exe and
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This is Part 7 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you might like to read from the start. This post covers “thunking” — the mechanism by which the emulated CPU
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This is Part 6 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you might like to read from the start. This post covers memory management — including a brief summary of Windows
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This is Part 5 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you’re not sure what this is or why I’m doing it you should read from the start. This post briefly describes the Windows 3 .exe file format — the basic structure,
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This is Part 4 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading from the beginning where I explain my (ir)rationale for starting this project. This post covers the differences between real and protected mode on x86
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This is Part 3 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a 16-bit Windows 3 emulator. If you haven’t done so already I recommend starting at the beginning where I explain my (ir)rationale for starting this project. This post covers the design of the CPU. At the
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This is Part 2 in a series of articles about building Win3mu — a Windows 3 emulator. In Part 1 I explained my (ir)rationale for starting this project. This post covers some initial thoughts on how to build it. A Little Background As mentioned I’ve previously written two other
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I’ve decided to write a 16-bit Windows emulator. It’s a bit of crazy idea, but hear me out… A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my partner Jen’s PC to 64-bit Windows. It all was going well until she went to play some Windows 3 card games