# copy/v86

> An x86-compatible PC emulator that runs in the browser: machine code is translated to WebAssembly to run old OSes and software without installation.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 23,527 total · +3 stars today, ≈ 5 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: JavaScript · License: BSD-2-Clause · Created: 2013-11-06 · Last push: 2026-09-20
- GitHub: https://github.com/copy/v86 · Homepage: https://copy.sh/v86/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/copy/v86

## Useful for

- Run Windows 98 or MS-DOS directly in the browser to test legacy software.
- Embed the emulator into a web page via libv86.js to demo legacy applications.
- Build and test a custom Linux image (e.g., Alpine or Buildroot) in the emulator.

## Why it’s here

- 3 stars so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #4, +9 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,908
- Issues and pull requests: 1,321
- Watchers: 335
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: latest (2026-09-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-27 … 2026-09-25: 3, 6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 8, 1, 4, 3, 9, 7, 5, 2, 3, 3, 0, 4, 7, 3

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #4, +9 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-25 14:45 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.