Pieter Levels(@levelsio)

💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly already took me months When that worked well enough, I wanted to build a dial up internet connection so it could browse the web, with the basic levels of AI back then, that was VERY hard, and I'd just go around in circles forever. Finally

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💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly already took me months When that worked well enough, I wanted to build a dial up internet connection so it could browse the web, with the basic levels of AI back then, that was VERY hard, and I'd just go around in circles forever. Finally

TL;DR · AI 摘要

通过AI和WebAssembly技术，作者成功将Windows 3.1和经典游戏移植到浏览器，如今因AI辅助逆向工程而获得广泛关注。

核心要点

  • WebAssembly使Windows XP等系统可在浏览器中运行，支持8万人同时在线。
  • AI工具Opus 5.5解决了逆向工程中的复杂问题，加速了移植进程。
  • 非营利项目pieter通过WebSockets实现跨浏览器多人互动游戏。

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  1. §项目起源

    作者因厌倦SaaS开发，开始尝试在浏览器中运行Windows 3.1。

  2. ·技术挑战

    实现拨号网络连接和Windows XP逆向工程需依赖AI工具Opus 5.5。

  3. ›突破时刻

    通过@bai0和@copy_sh协作，成功解决关键移植难题。

  4. ·成果爆发

    AI辅助移植使8万人同时体验Windows 3.1和Quake游戏。

  5. ›非营利模式

    pieter项目通过WebSockets实现跨平台互动，拒绝商业化。

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  • WebAssembly与AI逆向工程
    • 技术实现
      • Windows 3.1浏览器移植
      • Windows XP v86模拟
    • 关键工具
      • Opus 5.5 AI
      • WebSockets通信
    • 项目成果
      • 8万用户在线
      • 非营利博物馆

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#WebAssembly#AI逆向工程#浏览器移植#非营利项目#经典游戏
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@levelsio on X: "💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly already … / X

@levelsio

💾 Two years ago I started working on these crazy nostalgia projects, kind of randomly, because I was bored and wanted to do something different than just build another SaaS or AI app/website I wanted to try to run Windows 3.1 inside a web browser, and to do that properly already took me months When that worked well enough, I wanted to build a dial up internet connection so it could browse the web, with the basic levels of AI back then, that was VERY hard, and I'd just go around in circles forever. Finally I had to find the only person in the world who got that working

@

bai0

and beg him to help me make it work, and we did it! Then I started hosting classic games like Quake with full multiplayer, porting them to WASM, or if not already like Quake III by

lukathedev

and hosting those with a full multiplayer server ready-to-go in your browser And then I spent 6 months trying to reverse engineer Windows XP to run on v86 by

copy_sh

, very difficult (because it's so big) and only possible because modern AI like Opus 5.5 is good enough to figure that out For the last two years pretty much nobody cared about any of these projects, I'd tweet them into the void, which was fine because I thought it was very fun just for myself But now with this wave of AI-assisted reverse engineering WASM ports of games and apps to web they're finally taking off, pretty much anything is portable to WASM on web now, and if you add server to it via WebSockets, people can instantly play with each other, or interact inside apps you host, it's super cool Every game and app I have on

pieter

now is full or almost full to the limit, yesterday 80,000 people played around in Windows 3.1 or Windows XP inside their browsers chatting to MSN and AOL Messenger AI bots and playing 3D Pinball or playing Quake etc. And that was my idea for

: a non-commercial preservation project, kinda like an online computer museum but interactive! The most cool thing to pay respects to these old games, apps and OSes I think is to keep them alive by making them easily and freely accessible, playable on mobile so old and new generations of people can jump back in the past interactively This is one of my first projects to take off that does not, can not and will not make money because it's non-profit, and that's fine Every time I tweeted about these projects would always ask me "but why?" Because it's really fun! 🤩

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Radiant Optimizer

@RadiantOpti

Oct 8

PLAY ALL THESE GAMES IN YOUR BROWSER Your PC does not need the game installed! you can play Black Ops zombies, Skate 3, Halo and MW2 and more GAMES all run in a browser tab now. full list in the comments. School gaming is boutta be fire

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