A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game

A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game September 17, 2026 nullprogram.com/blog/2026/09/17/ 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 ha