Yes, we were talking about that in this thread.

But there's still no release yet, is there?

Not yet. I'd like to contact him for testing but I have no social networks accounts. If only he knew about this forum I think he would join knowing there are people here who think his idea is great for keeping the old school alive.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Not yet. I'd like to contact him for testing but I have no social networks accounts. If only he knew about this forum I think he would join knowing there are people here who think his idea is great for keeping the old school alive.

Register to get early access when it's close to ready.

http://www.win3mu.com/

collector wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

Not yet. I'd like to contact him for testing but I have no social networks accounts. If only he knew about this forum I think he would join knowing there are people here who think his idea is great for keeping the old school alive.

Register to get early access when it's close to ready.

http://www.win3mu.com/

Thanks! I'll register here as well. I also managed to register on the other site using my gmail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYsl5B_CefU

Praise him for doing what M$ refused to do. Now I'll be finally be able to go 64-bits without worrying about VMs.

His approach seems like a replacement for WOW.

great stuff!!!!

filipetolhuizen wrote:

If only he knew about this forum I think he would join knowing there are people here who think his idea is great for keeping the old school alive.

He is probably already receiving death threats from people demanding to run Zombie Wars.

It remains to be seen if this will prove superior to DOSBox+Win3.11, but then it already gets points for not requiring commercial software.

Jorpho wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

If only he knew about this forum I think he would join knowing there are people here who think his idea is great for keeping the old school alive.

He is probably already receiving death threats from people demanding to run Zombie Wars.

It remains to be seen if this will prove superior to DOSBox+Win3.11, but then it already gets points for not requiring commercial software.

For my purposes DOSBox+Win3x is not a viable solution. I need something that I can distribute in my installers, which I cannot do with 3x. This would allow me to do installers for the Win16 only games in the Sierra catalog.

I fear for the "special work window's 10 version" dork repacks of every win31 game ever clogging this forum later on.

What i'm really curious is how it handles DLLs, if it'll work fine with old visualbasic trash

leileilol wrote:

What i'm really curious is how it handles DLLs, if it'll work fine with old visualbasic trash

Well, Visual Basic 3 only required vbrun300.dll, and Visual Basic 5 was 32-bit only, so I guess the only concern there would be certain VB4 programs?

leileilol wrote:

I fear for the "special work window's 10 version" dork repacks of every win31 game ever clogging this forum later on.

What i'm really curious is how it handles DLLs, if it'll work fine with old visualbasic trash

He told me already WinG will probably not be supported on initial releases. Don't know about other DLLs.

Theoretically it is possible to compile WINE under Windows x64 using MinGW. If this would succeed then WINE can run Win16 games.

tzok wrote:

Theoretically it is possible to compile WINE under Windows x64 using MinGW. If this would succeed then WINE can run Win16 games.

No. People have been talking about this for the past twenty years. If this was at all possible everyone would be doing it already. The WineOnWindows page isn't even on the WINE wiki anymore (though it is archived). WINE is barely capable of running 16-bit Windows programs even in Linux due to recent changes in the kernel.

WineD3D can be compiled for use in Windows, but that is something else entirely.

Good news: "Win3mu" will be Open Source...
Could Win3mu code be useful to DOSBox to have Win 3.x emulation support?

DOSwinx wrote:

Good news: "Win3mu" will be Open Source...

Thanks for the news and welcome to Vogons! 😀

DOSwinx wrote:

Could Win3mu code be useful to DOSBox to have Win 3.x emulation support?

Unlikely, I think. Win3Emu is a wrapper with a special, built-in 286 emulation.
Simply said, it maps Win16 calls 1:1 to their respective Win64 equivalents.
So without having a Win32/64 system beforehand to work with, it doesn't work.

If you're looking for a WinBox, have a look at Boxedwine.
danoon decribes it in his own thread here at Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

DOSwinx wrote:

Good news: "Win3mu" will be Open Source...

Already mentioned here last June: Win3mu Soon OpenSource

Other projects are Winevdm and as mentioned earlier, Boxedwine.