A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game
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What happened
Stars! is a 1995 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) for 16-bit Windows 3.1 that I first played ~28 years ago. While Windows is famously backwards compatible, it’s notoriously difficult to play Stars! today. Windows x64 cannot run 16-bit applications, and playing requires either retro hardware or emulation ( otvdm , DOSBox ), sometimes paired with Wine . My new, exciting solution, Stars!VM , or Stars! Vi…
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